Bayreuth Finds New Director For Wagner Bicentennial Ring

‘Film director Wim Wenders had been an inspired choice to guide that production, but contract talks broke down, partially over Wenders’ desire to produce a 3-D movie of the operas at the same time.” The new choice is Frank Castorf, longtime director of Berlin’s Volksbühne theater and a man known for stagings that are radical even by modern German standards.