Artistic director and conductor: Ádám Fischer
With a decade-long history,
the Budapest Wagner Days is a source of considerable pride: over the course of
the past 10 years, the “Danube’s Bayreuth” has staged the complete Bayreuth
Canon, i.e. all ten pieces performed on the Green Hill during the composer’s
lifetime.
The staged performances
feature the best Wagner singers year after year, presenting stars such as
Waltraud Meier, Evelyn Herlitzius, Linda Watson, Annette Dasch, Christian
Franz, Gerhard Siegel, Walter Fink, Iréne Theorin, Robert Dean Smith, Jay
Hunter Morris, Elisabet Strid, James Rutherford, Bo Skovhus, Anja Kampe, Johan
Botha or Matti Salminen. Following the artistic intentions of Wagner, each
performance is a genuine Gesamtkunstwerk, offering the audience an all-round
artistic experience, centred around the powerful music of the Maestro. The
artistic director and conductor of the globally acclaimed event series is
Kossuth Prize-winning Ádám Fischer. In addition to the four grandiose
instalments of The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, the Budapest Wagner Days
in 2017 will also stage a concert opera version of Rienzi.
Budapest Wagner Days
debuted in 2006 with two Parsifal performances, which in many people’s opinion
surpassed their Bayreuth counterparts, launching the series and turning the
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall which boasts excellent acoustics, as well as
unique stage and intellectual dimensions, into an iconic destination for Wagner
enthusiasts. The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy, performed over four successive
nights in the spirit of Wagner’s heritage, has become a returning production of
the decade-old festival, enjoying the festivalgoers’ unwavering attention. Every
year the Ring performances are accompanied by different Wagner pieces that are
destined to immortality. In 2006 it was Parsifal that launched the Budapest
Wagner Days series that grew into an acclaimed international festival. It was
followed by Tristan and Isolde, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, The Mastersingers
ofNuremberg, The Flying Dutchman and will feature his early work, Rienzi,
scheduled for 2017.
https://www.mupa.hu/en/events/budapest-wagner-days/budapest-wagner-days-2017
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