Die 2017 in Karlsruhe uraufgeführte Oper »Wahnfried« von Avner Dorman und Lutz Hübner kam jetzt beim Longborough Festival heraus: Wahnfried – The Birth of the Wagner Cult.
Ryan Evens in seiner Rezension der Produktion im The Guardian:
Mark Le Brocq’s Chamberlain – simply a tour de force – is monstrous. Le Broq and Susan Bullock’s imperious Cosima are a hateful pair, their philosophy of hate for the Jews carefully delineated. It’s Chamberlain who pushes Cosima to banish her daughter Isolde, spirited into a Tardis-like box with the demand that she reimagine herself in keeping with the true Wagner ethos; he too insists on her brother Siegfried’s homosexuality being hidden. Andrew Watts’s impassioned aria to his lover is a focal point, while the picture of Siegfried’s hardly idyllic marriage to Winifred Williams – the better known figure here for her insidious cosying up to Hitler, sung by the formidable Alexandra Lowe – is a further marker of the authenticity of the piece.
Justin Brown, der Dirigent der Uraufführung, übernimmt auch hier die musikalische Leitung, Countertenor Andrew Watts singt die Partie des Siegfried Wagner.