Pietari Inkinen’s Bayreuth debut has already been postponed once due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Conductor Peter Inkinen has to miss the Bayreuth music festival because he has contracted the covid-19 disease. Inkinen was supposed to perform by Richard Wagner about a 15-hour masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung -tetralogy, ie Ring.
In the announcement of the music festival it is reported that “due to severe corona disease, he (Inkinen) is unable to participate in important stage rehearsals with the orchestra.”
The show in question was already canceled once in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
At that time Inkinen comment to HSthat the production would have been a dream come true for him:
“For me, as a conductor, it would have been the peak moment of my career, Ring right there, and in my own personal jubilee year. It won’t get any better.”
Now Inkisen’s Bayreuth debut will be postponed by another year, the festival announcement says.
In Inki’s place Ringin to lead Cornelius Meister, whom Tristan and Isolde -opera, on the other hand, is transferred Markus Poschnerin to be led
A four-piece The Ring of the Nibelung the first opera will be performed on July 31.
Wagner founded the Bayreuth Music Festival in the 19th century as a venue for his own works, and the Bavarian city has been a pilgrimage destination for Wagnerians ever since.
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The matter was clarified on 16.7. at 14.11: corrected the expression “to guide” to the form “to lead”.