The Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth is planning a new production of Wagner's last stage work “Parsifal” for 2023 by the opera director and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Camebridge, Jay Scheib.

The festival director Katharina Wagner announced on Saturday in Bayreuth.

The new production is to use special glasses for “augmented reality” for the audience, which make it possible to see things on stage that cannot be seen without glasses.

The analog stage events in the original acoustics of the Festspielhaus from 1876 are complemented virtually in a digital way.

Jan Brachmann

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Georg Zeppenfeld will sing Gurnemanz, Joseph Calleja Parsifal and Ekaterina Sementschuk will sing Kundry.

In 2022 there will be the complete "Ring des Nibelungen" under the direction of Pietari Inkinen and staged by Valentin Schwarz, which was already planned for 2020 but had to be postponed due to the corona pandemic.

The bass-baritone Günther Groissböck, intended for the role of Wotan and the Wanderer in the "Ring" and the "Walküre" this year, surprisingly returned his role on Saturday.

Nothing was known about the reasons.

The Bayreuth Festival begins today, Sunday, with Wagner's opera “The Flying Dutchman”, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. For the first time in the history of the festival, the musical direction has a woman: the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv.