Stage Director

Costume Designer

Rienzi, Wagner's third opera, was once his greatest success. The performance in Bayreuth is a unique opportunity to rediscover Wagner's early triumph – in a place where it has never been heard before.

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Rienzi

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

A REDISCOVERY - NATIONAL EPIC OR FAIRYTALE OPERA ABOUT THE FIGHT AGAINST EVIL?

Who is good and who is evil in this fairytale opera - and why? The nucleus of Pushkin's setting of Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka is the abduction of the princess's daughter Lyudmila from Kiev, the center of both the Russian and Ukrainian founding myths. For Ruslan, the warrior promised to her, this marks the beginning of an adventurous journey through the magical realm of a powerful dwarf. The rescue operation escalates into a showdown between the men fighting for Lyudmila. But she herself increasingly becomes a distant vision of love - the longed-for prize for heroism. In 1842, in the midst of the awakening Russian national sentiment, Glinka conceived the idea of a culturally united tsarist empire, in which he merged Slavic, Finnish and Arabic melos with the bel canto fashion of his time.

Stage Director, Costume Designer

Magdolna Parditka

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 26 - Aug 26, 2026

Rienzi · Bayreuther Festspiele

Past events

Jul 26 - Aug 26, 2026

Rienzi · Bayreuther Festspiele

Nov 9 - Dec 19, 2025

Ruslan und Ljudmila · Staatsoper Hamburg

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