Okay, this is too fun of a story to pass up. Apparently, Katharina Wagner, the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner thought it would be a great idea to “spice up” the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
And, oh, did she make it interesting.
The opera was modernized by having an arts league, with theater designs and film directors, as well as making Walter the knight a graffiti artist!
The audience members were not pleased with this and booed at her when she went up onstage to give her inaugural speech as the director of the Bayreuth Festival. Audience members in past years also booed Peter Schneider due to his conducting of Tristan und Isolde.
Yeah, I guess the kind of people that are actually going to go to the Bayreuth Festival don’t want to see that kind of thing. Old opera goers stuck in their ways. And younger people are probably not going to shell out the big bucks for a Wagner opera. So this might be where Ms. Wagner went wrong. Hell, I would go see it, but I’m not your typical opera goer. I like Katherina’s sass, but I imagine her great-grandaddy rolling in his grave.
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