Bayreuth Festival: End of a family saga | free press

One of the central ideas behind the new Nibelungen Ring at this year’s Bayreuth Festival, directed by Valentin Schwarz, is that children are the claim or the hope for power and a future. Siegfried and Brünnhilde are also part of the fourth part of the Ring, the “Götterdämmerung” performed on Friday, a nuclear family with…