In 2024, in addition to Semyon Bychkov and Pablo Heras-Casado, there will be more female conductors than male conductors at the Bayreuth Festival for the first time: Oksana Lyniv, Nathalie Stutzmann and Simone Young.
Fortunately, Festival Director Prof. Katharina Wagner has succeeded in recruiting Simone Young to conduct the Ring des Nibelungen, as Philippe Jordan had to cancel the conducting of the Bayreuth Ring, which he had been looking forward to with great pleasure, much to his regret. Other commitments have now unfortunately made it impossible for him to conduct the Ring. Simone Young will be the first female conductor to conduct the tetralogy in Bayreuth. Her engagement has long been a particular concern of the Artistic Director, but other commitments had unfortunately not yet made an earlier collaboration possible.
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