Dmitry Chernyakov debuts in Bayroit

In 2021, at the Festival in Bayroit, the premiere of Wagner’s opera “Flying Dutchman” will be presented in the production of Dmitry Chernyakov. For the Russian director, this performance will become a debut on the Bayroitsk stage.

According to Deutsche Welle , for the first time in the history of the festival, a woman will stand up for the conductor’s remote control - Oksana Lyniv (Ukraine). Senta’s party in the “Flying Dutch” will be performed by Soprano Asmik Grigoryan (Armenia).

Dmitry Chernyakov and Oksana Lyniv call an invitation to Bayroit the culmination of his career.

Since the late 1990s, Dmitry Chernyakov has staged more than 50 opera performances in Russia and abroad, including the works of Richard Wagner. “This composer and his works are absolutely not like everyone else,” the director says. “To put Wagner, you need to survive a kind of psychosis, a nervous breakdown.”

Oksana Lyniv in 2008-2013 headed the Odessa Opera Theater, continued her career as assistant Kirill Petrenko in the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 2017 became the first woman to take the post of General Musical Director in Graz. Since August 2020 - the invited conductor of the Frankfurt Opera.

It is noted that Chernyakov and bald know and appreciate each other since the time of joint work in the Bavarian State Opera.

The Bayroitsky festival of 2020 was canceled, but in 2021 it will certainly take place, said the managing director of the Hinz-Ditier Zenses festival. Provided, he added that he would allow him to conduct an epidemiological situation in Germany and related security measures. Nevertheless, it is already known that the new production of the central work of Richard Wagner - the Opera Tetralogy “Nibelung Ring” - was transferred to 2022.

In addition, it is reported that the great -granddaughter of Richard Wagner, the director of the Bayroit festival Katarina Wagner, who had seriously ill for several months, was in an artificial coma and underwent several operations, now completely recovered and returned to the performance of her duties.