Why there are nonetheless tickets this yr – Muricas News

A tremor just lately went by means of the world of classical music: the ticket workplace of the Bayreuth Competition introduced that tickets have been nonetheless accessible. For this yr’s competition. For all performances, and that in the beginning of July, just a few weeks earlier than the beginning. What’s happening there? The previous director of the Vienna State Opera, who now seems as a cultural chatterer primarily on the conservative house broadcaster Servus TV, had the Viennese Presse knowledgeable that the opportunity of with the ability to go to the Bayreuth Competition comparatively spontaneously this yr is a warning to all those that consider that they don't have to slavishly comply with the directions written down by the grasp, i.e. Richard Wagner. Or to place it one other means: In case you don’t implement his operas in a conservative means, there will probably be empty seats.