Wagner - Rienzi: Overture

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Watch this performance of the grand overture to Wagner's early opera Rienzi performed by Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg. This opera in fact made its premiere at the Bayreuth Festival this year and there are numerous further performances during the festival until the end of August - https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/fsdb/performances/2026 Watch the full performance of the 2013 production from which this video was taken on our streaming service STAGE+: https://www.stage-plus.com/de/video/vod_concert_APNM8GRFDPHMASJKBSOJ0CHK It was directed by Jorge Lavelli at the Théâtre du Capitole opera in Toulouse in 2013. In Rienzi, the young Wagner took a Europe-wide bestseller of power, rebellion and mob violence in medieval Rome, and transformed it into the grandest of grand operas. His first major success, it’s rarely performed today, but Jorge Lavelli’s 2013 staging for the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse makes a powerful impact – stripping away the merely scenic elements and drawing on both French and German theatrical traditions to lay bare the heart of the drama. Pinchas Steinberg conducts with authentic Wagnerian sweep, and Torsten Kerl is thrilling in the title role – which, in Rienzi’s prayer "Allmächt'ger Vater", contains one of Wagner’s sublimest melodies. Subscribe here for more classical video clips – The Best Of Classical Music: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-DG Discover full concert performances and operas on STAGE+, the strea

Published 2026-08-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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