july 28 2026
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Heras-Casado
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Heras-Casado
–The Ring of the Nibelung: selection from Richard Wagner's Tetralogy
Details
On the 40th anniversary of the Perelada Festival and within the tour of the 150th anniversary of Bayreuth Festival, Barcelona will raise as a musical centre of Europe.
The modernist venue of the Palau de la Música Catalana is once again the stage of an historical musical milestone. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra leaves its emblematic home to come to Barcelona on August 29th 2026 to perform a selection of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung. Under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado and the voices of Catherine Foster, Klaus Florian Vogt and Nicholas Brownlee, delighting us with immortal scenes from the history of art: the entrance of gods in Valhalla, Wotan’s farewell, the death of Siegfried... A date for the history that will enlighten the World Heritage Site by UNESCO with another monument, in this case, a musical one.
Performers
Catherine Foster, soprano
Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor
Nicholas Brownlee, bass-baritone
Orquestra del Festival de Bayreuth
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor
Katharina Wagner, Festival artistic direction
Program
Das Rheingold: Entrance of the gods to Valhalla
Die Walküre: “Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater”. Wotan's Farewell, “Leb wohl du kühnes herrliches Kind!”.
Siegfried: The murmur of the forest, “Waldweben”. “Ewig war ich...”.
Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried's journey on the Rhine. The death of Siegfried, “Brünnhilde, heilige Braut!”. Funeral march. Final scene, “Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort…”
