(Above: Elders. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
Bayreuther Festspiele 2010 is about to get real and OC has exclusive photos of German director Hans Neuenfels' brand new Wanger Lohengrin production. Neuenfels collaborated with Reinhard von der Thannen's costume design for technicolor leads anchored by a rat-suited chorus. Swans, rodents, and Jonas Kaufmann's hair...it's like Wild Kingdom up in Bayreuth. What's not to love? Conductor Andris Nelsons is all over Kaufmann's high profile Bayreuther Festspiele debute and we're all over these photos. Who put the rodents all up in Lohengrin? Our hero, that's who.
(Above: Evelyn Herlitzius as Ortrud and Annette Dasch as Elsa. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
(Above: Jonas Kaufmann as Lohengrin. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Jorg Schulze)
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(Above: Jonas Kaufmann as Lohengrin and Annette Dasch as Elsa. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
(Above: George Zeppenfeld as Konig Heinrich and Samuel Youn as Der Heerrufer. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
(Above: George Zeppenfeld as Konig Heinrich and Annette Dasch as Elsa. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
(Above: Evelyn Herlitzius as Ortrud, Annette Dasch as Elsa, and Jonas Kaufmann as Lohengrin. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
(Above: Jonas Kaufmann as Lohengrin and Annette Dasch as Elsa. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath)
Above: Annette Dasch as Elsa. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Enrico Nawrath
Above: Samuel Youn as Der Heerrufer des Konigs. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH / Jorg Schulz