Pablo Heras-Casado: “the History of Art Is Written by the Rebels. We Have to Try to Keep Beethoven’s Fifth Shocking and brutal.”

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The mystical pit of Bayreuth—mystischer Abgrund, in German—is not called that by chance. The space destined for the orchestra of the Festspielhaus, the theatre conceived by Richard Wagner in an idyllic Bavarian town to represent his operas, is located under the stage and is hot and narrow. Director Pablo Heras-Casado (Grenada, 47 years old), who this year has again directed there, for the third year, Parsifal. Continue reading