Project closed | Project period: 2008–2010
Bayreuth Public Viewing 2010
Public Viewing of the opera "Walküre" by Richard Wagner
With great success, the Bayreuth productions “Master-Singers of Nuremberg” and “Tristan and Isolde” were presented in 2008 and 2009 as an outdoors, public viewing event. Together with the Bayreuth Festival, “Siemens Festivalnight 2010” continued this project and showed Wagner’s “Walküre” as well as for the first time “Richard Wagner for children”: a special edition of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” for the young audience. The aim of the project partners was to make Richard Wagner’s music dramas accessible to a broader public.
Working Area:
Culture
Region/Country:
Germany
Project period:
2008–2010 (closed)
A joint theater experience in which drama – implemented through theatrical and musical means – is the center of focus, this was the core of Richard Wagner’s idea for the opera festival. Siemens Stiftung enabled both: through public viewing, it opened the performances of Wagners’ music dramas at the Bayreuth Festival to a greater audience and therefore fostered a greater understanding for Wagner’s work. The aim was to generate background knowledge regarding the composer and his work, make available explanations and references on the production of the “Walküre” and also, to find creative ways to engage the youngest audience through the children opera.
Robert Balthasar
robert.balthasar@siemens-stiftung.org
+49 89 540487 200