Cornelius Meister, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (BluRay)

After Der fliegende Holländer (2022), Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018), the Grammy nominated Lohengrin (2019) and Tannhäuser (2020) this is the seventh installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival. The Yellow Label is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the mythical Wagner festival, this year releasing Götterdämmerung as a physical set on Blu-ray Video.

The 2022 Bayreuth Festival presented a long-awaited new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, staged by young Austrian director Valentin Schwarz and conducted by Cornelius Meister. In his provocative new reading Schwarz turns Wagner’s epic cycle into the saga of a dysfunctional modern family, culminating in the concluding Götterdämmerung.

Cornelius Meister conducts a splendid cast including famous Bayreuth veterans (Iréne Theorin, Albert Dohmen) as well as exciting new stars (Clay Hilley, Elisabeth Teige).

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Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus
Cornelius Meister