There are composers and composers, theaters and theaters and operas and operas. Directing Wagner is not the same as directing other authors; directing Wagner in Bayreuth is not the same as in other places; and directing ‘Parsifal’ in Bayreuth is not the same as directing any other Wagnerian title. Pablo Heras-Casado (Granada, 1977) is going to do all three things on July 25; as if that were not enough, the opening of the festival, and also with a protagonist, the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja, debuting in the role. Heras-Casado joins Plácido Domingo, until now the only Spanish conductor that he had conducted at the Festspiele in its 121-year history. The new production bears the signature of Jay Scheib, and… See More