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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow Das Rheingold review – no ring, no gold, instead child abuse and abduction drive Bayreuth's new Ring by Martin Kettle Aug 1, 2022 Bayreuth festival, Germany Austrian director Valentin Schwarz’s new Ring presents the bold and searing idea that the original sin that drives Wagner’s world of power is the abuse of children. Can it be sustained? Who knew? Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle isn’t a saga of gold, power and love after all. That was merely what the composer thought. In fact the Ring is a tale of child abduction and dehumanisation. Or at least that is what the Austrian director Valentin Schwarz seems to be arguing in the first part of this long awaited new Ring cycle at the Bavarian festival where the work itself was premiered in 1876. Bayreuth’s new Ring has been longer in the making than planned since the last cycle in 2017. There have been changes of director, delays caused by the pandemic, power struggles within the festival itself and, less than three weeks ago, the conductor Pietari Inkinen was forced to pull out because of Covid (Bayreuth says he will be back next year). The baton passed to the Stuttgart opera music director Cornelius Meister, who opened the Ring with a well-paced, fluent account of Das Rheingold, beautifully played by the Bayreuth festival orchestra. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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