A Wagnerian glow at Barcelona’s Palau
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- The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra performed music from Wagner’s Ring cycle at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música on Saturday.
- The concert attracted an audience returning early from vacation and prompted talk of establishing an additional event around the same time each year.
The audience at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música arrived looking tanned and ready for a Wagnerian return to public life. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra’s Saturday concert blurred the line between the closing event of Peralada’s 40th edition and an early opening of the new cultural season.
Music from Wagner’s Ring cycle, performed by leading interpreters of the repertoire, gave the concert the feel of a lavish holiday finale. Many spectators appeared willing to bring their return from vacation forward by a couple of days, trading time on the road for an evening of opera and an extra day to prepare for work.
The effect was energetic rather than weary. The success of the evening led some attendees to suggest creating an extraordinary concert around this time of year. Palau officials, however, remembered that their own August break had not been a break at all.
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Originally published by La Vanguardia in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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