How can Bayreuth be preserved as a museum ?

Gerard Mortier in conversation with Jürg Stengl

Translation : Jos Hermans

Looking back at opera in the second half of the 20th century, one has the impression that renewal took place primarily in the area of the visual and the understanding of direction and much less in the area of dramaturgy and music.

Certainly, after the Second World War, the real renewal in the field of opera happens in the field o…