Performance // Opera Overhaul: Jonathan Meese & Bernhard Lang in ‘Mondparsifal Beta 9–23’
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 03, 2017
Tradition at Bayreuth, a festival conceived by German opera visionary Richard Wagner and utilized in 1882 to premiere his final work, ‘Parsifal’, forbids the audience from applauding at the end of the first act. After being denied…[read on]