{"id":9184,"date":"2023-06-23T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T17:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2023-06-23T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T17:39:17","slug":"siyabonga-maqungo-returns-to-bayreuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/siyabonga-maqungo-returns-to-bayreuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Siyabonga Maqungo returns to Bayreuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"module-10\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"combo-image\">\n<div class=\"image-container\" align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"left\">In the summer of 2022, South African tenor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Siyabonga Maqungo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0celebrated his debut at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, that holy of holies for Wagner-fans, with a rousing success\u202f\u2014\u2009and was invited to return this year. Of course, he will portray not one but three roles at this year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/fsdb\/mitwirkende\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayreuth Festival<\/a>: Walther von der Vogelweide in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/tannhaeuser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTannh\u00e4user\u201d<\/a>, the First Knight of the Grail in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/parsifal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cParsifal\u201d<\/a>, and the Young Sailor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/tristan-und-isolde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTristan und Isolde\u201d<\/a>, reprising his role from last year.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Bayreuth Festival<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Richard Wagner:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/tannhaeuser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTannh\u00e4user\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Siyabonga Maqungo<\/strong><\/a>: Walther von der Vogelweide<br \/>\n<strong>July 28; August 7, 16, 20, 28.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Richard Wagner:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/parsifal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cParsifal\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Siyabonga Maqungo<\/strong><\/a>: First Knight of the Grail<br \/>\n<strong>July 25, 30; August 12, 15, 19, 23, 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Richard Wagner:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/programm\/auffuehrungen\/tristan-und-isolde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTristan und Isolde\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Siyabonga Maqungo<\/strong><\/a>: Young Sailor<br \/>\n<strong>August 3, 13.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2022, South African tenor\u00a0Siyabonga Maqungo\u00a0celebrated his debut at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, that holy of holies for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-july-august-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9185,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}