tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post3585307010617840464..comments2024-03-16T08:02:38.070-04:00Comments on wellsung.blogspot.com: Opening DayAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-26074006173765060682007-07-30T16:09:00.000-04:002007-07-30T16:09:00.000-04:00Mr. Noise, yes - and Wolfgang might live to see th...Mr. Noise, yes - and Wolfgang might live to see the bicentenary of Richard's birth.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-57913608757183427222007-07-27T18:46:00.000-04:002007-07-27T18:46:00.000-04:00Yeah, that does sound awfully unpleasant. I suppos...Yeah, that does sound awfully unpleasant. I suppose the trouble is they don't really need to fill any seats, so there's not such an incentive to get the quality back up. Tho one can't help but daydream about how neat it would be if they did use it to assemble dream team casts...like summer olympics but with less archery and more sangin'.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-66878823015617711632007-07-27T16:47:00.000-04:002007-07-27T16:47:00.000-04:00I think a lot of it with Bayreuth is that people a...I think a lot of it with Bayreuth is that people aren't willing to commit to their demanding summer schedule (I'm pretty sure Matti Salminen goes home and does Savonlinna instead), but even more, it's that Bayreuth isn't artistically what it used to be. In the 50s and 60s, it was the place for doing innovative things with Wagner, and even into the 70s. Now...well, who wants to sing with decomposing rabbits?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835412376364738567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-45628802762330971262007-07-26T14:25:00.000-04:002007-07-26T14:25:00.000-04:00It never ceases to blow my mind that Bayreuth is b...It never ceases to blow my mind that Bayreuth is being run by the grandson of a man born in 1813.Alex Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08023216757229249122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-42789207103749617512007-07-26T12:04:00.000-04:002007-07-26T12:04:00.000-04:00Siegfried was not only born late, he was homosexua...Siegfried was not only born late, he was homosexual and didn't marry until he was in his 40s. (Yeah, under enormous pressure from Cosima, who lived until 1930 (!).) It was Wieland, the oldest of Siegfried's children, who was responsible for the greatest of the postwar Bayreuth productions.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.com