Rienzi: Bayreuth Festival 2026
Opening the 2026 Bayreuth Festival in its 150th anniversary year, this live stream presents Wagner’s Rienzi, his early grand opera and once his greatest success, in the Festspielhaus for the first time. The staging is entrusted to award-winning directors Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka, while Nathalie Stutzmann conducts a superb cast led by Heldentenor Andreas Schager in the title role, with Gabriela Scherer as Irene and Jennifer Holloway as Adriano. With its massed choruses, public spectacle and private tragedy, Rienzi promises to open this landmark Bayreuth Festival in unmissable style.
Directed by Alexandra Szemerédy · Written by Richard Wagner
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Cast
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Andreas Schager Cola Rienzi - Gabriela Scherer Irene
- Andreas Bauer Kanabas Stefano Colonna
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Jennifer Holloway Adriano - Michael Nagy Paolo Orsini
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Vitalij Kowaljow Raimondo - Matthias Stier Baroncelli
- Michael Kupfer-Radecky Cecco del Vecchio
- Victoria Randem The Messenger of Peace
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