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By: The Dream Place • VAN Magazine

The Dream Place • VAN Magazine — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:58:13 +0000

[…] That Munich’s bid was unsuccessful means the world will never see the performance we were just beginning to sketch out with the artist Liz Rosenfeld and the literature professor Elahe Haschemi Yekani; a fever dream of the troubled history of German queer life with tap-dancing Leni Riefenstahls and at least one appearance by Ludwig II. Since then we’ve become friends. We sat down in a cafe in our neighborhood (with Kosky’s omnipresent Goldendoodle/German Hound mix, Sammy, bouncing about our feet) to discuss Kosky’s tenure at the Komische Oper (which began in 2012 and which is ending this summer with a new production called “Barrie Kosky’s All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue”), the need for more rehearsals in opera, life as a diaspora Jew in Germany, and being attacked by priests at Bayreuth. […]

By: Is This What You Wanted? • VAN Magazine

Is This What You Wanted? • VAN Magazine — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:27:25 +0000

[…] of whether we still need Bayreuth has been asked plenty of times. So, too, has the question of how we reconcile Bayreuth with its past. Many are quick to answer the latter with an insistent “that was then, this is now.” Audience […]

By: A Father Complex Playlist • VAN Magazine

A Father Complex Playlist • VAN Magazine — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:54:23 +0000

[…] It’s a legacy of his own hubris, one that Brünnhilde herself ends in “Götterdämmerung.” The Wagner legacy cycles […]