Munich Opera Festival 2011 Bayreuth 
Today was at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the so-called first sale
for this year's Opera Festival. Some Tireless have been working since last Wednesday or Register here waiting for the issue of numbers and then let all vogesprochen a few hours for a place on the list not to lose. Surprised rubs the sideline observers the eyes. Long queues nights in advance, so what is there in other opera sites not seen since the early nineties. In the Internet age, but no one comes up with the idea in January for rows in a snake if you do not have. But maybe you have to, because the program is so great? But this is certainly not the case! Leafing through the (very attractive program booklet) are found in fact only a single production that is truly spectacular: The
Tristan with
Ben Heppner ,
Nina Stemme and
René Pape (but Heppner sings just before a
Lohengrin not completely sold out and Pape
is still January for a recital in Munich ). The rest is not very different from the regular season, except of course for the prices and are all at least one category higher than usual Sometimes the cast during the season has even more spectacular than the Festival. Sun
Jonas Kaufmann sings in February in
Carmen, Anna Netrebko
in May in L'elisir d'
and
Anja Harteros amore in June for the first time the Princess in
Rosenkavalier. There remained the festival premiere, but that's the mammoth work
Saint Francois d'Assise of
Olivier Messaien in the direction of
Hermann Nitsch a respectable, but bold choice! After the glitz and glamor looks really do not - we assume time that it is intentional. Otherwise, same cast revivals of the season premieres (
Fidelio and
Rusalka that no one wants to see twice!) And of course the inevitable
Edita Gruberova , this time with
Lucrezia Borgia. Your maximum prices expected in summer! And it suggests we are now the nights around the ears? In Munich, the opera clocks are just still very different from the rest of the Republic ...
