Below, Bayreuth Festival announces the cast for 2016:

PARSIFAL

Musical Direction: Andris Nelsons
Director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg
Set Design: Gisbert Jäkel
Costume Design: Jessica Karge
Lighting Design: Reinhard Traub
Chorus Master: Eberhard Friedrich

Amfortas: Ryan McKinny
Titurel: TBD
Gurnemanz: Georg Zeppenfeld
Parsifal: Klaus Florian Vogt
Klingsor: Gerd Grochowski
Kundry: TBD
1st Grail Knight: Tansel Akzeybek
2nd Grail Knight: Timo Riihonen
1st Squire: Alexandra Steiner
2nd Squire: Mareike Morr
3rd Squire: Charles Kim
4th Squire: Stefan Heibach
Klingsor’s Flower Maiden: Netta Or
Katharina Persicke
Mareike Morr
Alexandra Steiner
Bele Kumberger
Ingeborg Gillebo
Alto: Wiebke Lehmkuhl

THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG

Musical Direction: Marek Janowski
Production: Frank Castorf
Set Design: Aleksandar Denić
Costume Design: Adriana Braga Peretzki
Lighting Design: Rainer Casper
Video: Andreas Deinert, Jens Crull
Chorus Master: Eberhard Friedrich

THE RHINEGOLD

Wotan: Iain Paterson
Donner: Markus Eiche
Froh: Tansel Akzeybek
Loge: Roberto Saccà
Fricka: Sarah Connolly
Freia: Caroline Wenborne
Erda: Nadine Weissmann
Alberich: Albert Dohmen
Mime: Andreas Conrad
Fasolt: Andreas Hörl
Fafner: TBD
Woglinde: Alexandra Steiner
Wellgunde: Stephanie Houtzeel
Floßhilde: Wiebke Lehmkuhl

THE VALKYRIE

Siegmund: Christopher Ventris
Hunding: Andreas Hörl
Wotan: John Lundgren
Sieglinde: Jennifer Wilson
Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
Fricka: Sarah Connolly
Gerhilde: Caroline Wenborne
Ortlinde: Dara Hobbs
Waltraute: Stephanie Houtzeel
Schwertleite: Nadine Weissmann
Helmwige: Christiane Kohl
Siegrune: Simone Schröder
Grimgerde: Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Roßweiße: Alexandra Petersamer

SIEGFRIED

Siegfried: Stefan Vinke
Mime: Andreas Conrad
The Wanderer: Thomas J. Mayer
Alberich: Albert Dohmen
Fafner: TBD
Erda: Nadine Weissmann
Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
Forest Bird: Ana Durlovski

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

Siegfried: Stefan Vinke
Gunther: Markus Eiche
Alberich: Albert Dohmen
Hagen: Stephen Milling
Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
Gutrune: Allison Oakes
Waltraute: Marina Prudenskaya
1st Norn: Wiebke Lehmkuhl
2nd Norn: Stephanie Houtzeel
3rd Norn: Christiane Kohl
Woglinde: Alexandra Steiner
Wellgunde: Stephanie Houtzeel
Floßhilde: Wiebke Lehmkuhl

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

Musical Direction: Axel Kober
Production: Jan Philipp Gloger
Set Design: Christof Hetzer
Costume Design: Karin Jud
Lighting Design: Urs Schönebaum
Video: Martin Eidenberger
Dramaturg: Sophie Becker
Chorus Master: Eberhard Friedrich

Daland: Peter Rose
Senta: Ricarda Merbeth
Erik: TBD
Mary: Christa Mayer
The Steersman: Benjamin Bruns
The Holländer: John Lundgren

TRISTAN AND ISOLDE

Musical Direction: Christian Thielemann
Production: Katharina Wagner
Set Design: Frank Philipp Schlößmann
Matthias Lippert
Costume Design: Thomas Kaiser
Lighting Design: Reinhard Traub
Dramaturg: Daniel Weber
Chorus Master: Eberhard Friedrich

Tristan: Stephen Gould
King Marke: Georg Zeppenfeld
Isolde: Petra Lang
Kurwenal: Iain Paterson
Melot: Raimund Nolte
Brangäne: Christa Mayer
A Shepherd: Tansel Akzeybek
A Steersman: Kay Stiefermann
Young Sailor: Tansel Akzeybek

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