Bayreuth / Pinzendorf (dpa) – The painter Hermann Nitsch (82), who has become known as the “blood artist”, does not think much of director’s theater. “Anyone who knows my work knows that I stand for happenings and performance art, but I’m still an opponent of directorial theater,” he said in an interview with the German Press Agency. “I’m against remodeling finished work and messing it up with your own ideas.”
Nevertheless, the Richard Wagner opera “Walküre” on the Green Hill of Bayreuth will bear his signature this year. The Austrian action artist will paint them.
“I didn’t even know how much my painting action fits into the sounds of the” ring “,” he said – and announced: “I want to create a riot of color.”
Another Wagner opera is closer to him: “Many symbols from” Parsifal “are also very important in my work, and I always wanted to direct it, but then other directors were preferred to me.”
Nitsch’s version of “Walküre” is set to premiere on July 29th at the Bayreuth Festival.
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