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Brünnhilde burns Bayreuth Festival 2026
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Brünnhilde burns
at the Friedrichsforum Bayreuth
Two female figures, in truth one and the same person, at odds with herself, in her ongoing struggle with the Ring, yet full of passion and dedication for a single goal: the stage, which is life itself.
Brünnhilde dreams. She is troubled by a restless sleep. She is tormented by the fire around the Valkyrie Rock, to which Wagner’s Ring – the eternal work – has bound her for all time. Condemned to repeatedly play the same role of sacrifice. It awakens – Hermine, the opera singer, drenched in sweat in her hotel room.
Two female figures, in truth one and the same person, at odds with herself, in her continuous struggle with the Ring, the eternal conflict with the other characters from Wagner’s universe, yet full of passion and devotion for the one goal: the stage, which is life itself. Brünnhilde burns.
In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival, in the year of its 150th anniversary, will once again present the premiere of a commissioned work with Brünnhilde burns. Composer Bernhard Lang and librettist Michael Sturminger have created a piece about dreaming, inviting the audience to a play with realities and a reflection on the struggle with our cultural heritage. Brünnhilde burns is produced as a co-production of the Bayreuth Festival with the Dortmund Opera – a house that in recent years, under the direction of Heribert Germeshausen, has distinguished itself, particularly through the festival format Wagner-Kosmos, as one of the foremost addresses for contemporary Wagner interpretation outside Bayreuth.
– Daniel C. Schindler
Program and cast
Musical Direction: Jonathan Stockhammer
Stage Director: Neil Barry Moss
Featuring: Catherine Foster
Performed by the Dortmund Philharmonic
Bayreuth Festival
The Bayreuth Festival (German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.
Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the theatre, which contained many architectural innovations to accommodate the huge orchestras for which Wagner wrote as well as the composer's particular vision about the staging of his works. The Festival has become a pilgrimage destination for Wagner enthusiasts, who often must wait years to obtain tickets.
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