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'Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Siegfried' as Bad as Expected

It was bound to happen in a staging of Richard Wagner's 'Ring' cycle someday, but few would have expected that in Wagner's own opera house, in his bicentenary year his hero Siegfried would kill the fierce dragon Fafner with a machine gun instead of a magic sword.

By Classicalite Newsdesk

'Richard Wagner's New 'Ring Cycle' at Bayreuth [PHOTOS]

Abendzeitung, a liberal evening tabloid in Munich, has published the first photos of the latest production of Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' at Bayreuth. And in our honest English opinion, they're pretty darn erstaunlich.

By Logan K. Young

'Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Siegfried' as Bad as Expected

'Richard Wagner's New 'Ring Cycle' at Bayreuth [PHOTOS]