
Nueva era en el Festival de Bayreuth, ahora mandan Katharina Wagner y Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Las muchachas apostaron fuerte y convocaron como puestista para una nueva producción de
Lohengrin a Hans Neunfels.
Por lo que comenta
Alex Ross, Neunfels no se anduvo con eufemismos, toma a la sociedad como un laboratorio experimental e hizo transformar al coro en ratas. Aquí abajo el post de Ross, que lleva a su vez a ver fotos y comentarios:
Above is an image from Hans Neuenfels's
rat-infested production of
Lohengrin, which opened at Bayreuth earlier today. The customary explosion of boos greeted the directing team when they made their bows. On the webcast one could also hear, oddly, a few boos for
Andris Nelsons, who, I thought, conducted with pulsing energy and palpable musical authority. Chancellor Angela Merkel was in the audience, and, amid the clamor, she was observed to direct applause in Neuenfels's direction. "
Das war wunderbar," she said afterward, according to
Die Welt. Perhaps the rats spoke to her allegorically....