The “Parsifal” premiere at the opening of this year’s Bayreuth Festival takes place under tight security. Police forces patrolling the Festspielhaus, which is secured with fences, bags were checked, of festival visitors as well as of onlookers. The commercial director Holger von Berg appeared happy with the tightened security concept. “We are well prepared,” he said. After the massacre of Munich and the recent murder in Ansbach the world famous Festival starts on Monday afternoon (16 am) also without red carpet. The state reception was canceled out of respect for the victims of the Munich bloodbath of Friday. So something has probably never happened before in the recent history of the Richard Wagner Festival, spokesman Peter Emmerich. Said
The festival had advocated that the city Bayreuth cancels out the red carpet. “Everything else would we perceive as tasteless and completely inappropriate,” said Emmerich. Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) also said from the traditional state reception after the performance. This command of respect for the victims and their relatives. He will also not attend the opening night on Monday. The decision was made after the massacre in Munich, before the suicide attack in Ansbach, in which the perpetrators themselves tore to death – all injured victims are out of danger. The flags along the driveway to the Festspielhaus were provided with crape.
Bayreuth premiere is the victim of Munich dedicated
The performance of the new production of Richard Wagner’s last opera “Parsifal” itself is despite all instead. The plant contains a “message of peace and reconciliation,” said Emmerich. The premiere this Monday will be devoted explicitly to the victims of the Munich rampage and their families, said the festival management with on its website. “The participants of the Bayreuth Festival mourn all people in Munich so tragically who died on 22 July. The members and survivors heard our deepest sympathy,” it said. At the premiere itself, the text was projected before the start of a stage wall, slightly modified because of the suicide bomber in Ansbach: This performance was dedicated to “all the victims of violence in recent days and their relatives”
directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg, after the festival had separated from the scandal artist Jonathan Meese, the director initially appointed, – allegedly because his approach was too expensive. On the podium is this Monday Hartmut Haenchen, who in turn took over the baton of Andris Nelsons. Nelson had jumped just before the premiere. Haenchen now had a few days time to prepare. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, he said there had been two orchestral, four stage samples, a sample for corrections and main and rehearsal given to him. As the time for detailed work was insufficient Haenchen has insisted that the musicians use his orchestral material with thousands Einzeichnungen for interpretation. Starring sing Klaus Florian Vogt (Parsifal), Ryan McKinny (Amfortas) and Elena Panratova (Kundry).
was the safety and this year is a big issue on the Green hill, before the series of attacks in recent days and weeks since the bombing in Nice. The Festspielhaus was fenced for safety reasons to prevent possible terrorist attacks. This happened some weeks ago.
Tighter security measures and background checks
Anyone who wants to enter the premises, needs after the security concept of city and police an accreditation document – or a ticket. The special pass only received, who signed a consent form that its data are checked by the police. Even employees of the festival were checked; the police recommended that some of them do not use in safety-relevant areas. According to a report of “Northern Bavarian courier” According, were approximately 35 800 employees as a security risk, because they have a criminal record for violent offenses. A real danger does not see the police, however. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), regular guest in Bayreuth, had canceled her participation in the opening of this year some time ago for scheduling reasons.
Islam critical “Parsifal” – staging
a link between the fear of attacks and a supposedly anti-Islamic “Parsifal” production was director Laufenberg denied. In “Parsifal” it is about Christianity, not Islam, he stressed in an interview. The 2015 re-opened and restored Richard Wagner Museum also refers specifically to “Parsifal”. Firstly, visitors can trace the origin of the score in the treasury in the basement of Wahnfried: Presented original manuscripts from Wagner’s prose draft to the autograph score. On the other runs in the film program of the museum, the Elf-minute production “Black Mountain”, a work of the artist collective Like A Wild Beast’s fur, which is inspired by Wagner’s “Parsifal”. The short film can be seen from July 25 to August 3 four times a day as a supporting film in regular film program of the museum. Tst (with dpa and epd)
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