Wiener FestWochen [ENA] Richard Wagner’s Parsifal at the Wiener Festwochen presents itself not merely as an opera performance, but as a total theatrical experience: solemn, visionary, and unsettlingly contemporary. In the production by Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg, Wagner’s final work is not treated as a museum monument of German repertory, but as a living ritual that grapples with the most persistent human questions: guilt, compassion.   [Full story...]

Wiener FestWochen [ENA] This is a formally lucid yet intellectually ambitious contribution to Vienna’s long tradition of documentary theatre, transforming the city’s lived experiences into a collectively authored urban mythography. At the core of Mattias Andersson’s project lies a simple but radical question addressed to Vienna’s inhabitants: “Is there a particular moment in your life that you would like to see performed on stage"?   [Full story...]