{"id":14548,"date":"2026-08-10T04:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/10\/this-is-asking-a-lot-of-the-buttocks-my-23-hour-wagner-marathon-on-a-rock-hard-seat-in-a-heatwave-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:45:06","slug":"this-is-asking-a-lot-of-the-buttocks-my-23-hour-wagner-marathon-on-a-rock-hard-seat-in-a-heatwave-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/10\/this-is-asking-a-lot-of-the-buttocks-my-23-hour-wagner-marathon-on-a-rock-hard-seat-in-a-heatwave-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is asking a lot of the buttocks\u2019: my 23-hour Wagner marathon on a rock hard seat in a heatwave Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does it feel to be locked into a venue notorious for its unpadded seating to experience a full-throttle Ring cycle and more? Our critic found out at the 150th anniversary of the mighty Bayreuth festival<\/p>\n<p>Liszt and Bruckner were there from the start. Debussy, Mahler and Puccini all subsequently made the journey. So did writers from Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann to WEB Du Bois, not to mention choreographer Sergei Diaghilev, anarchist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2010\/oct\/06\/emma-goldman-modern-anarchist\">Emma Goldman<\/a>, British fascist Diana Mosley (wife of Oswald) and \u2013 most notoriously and fanatically \u2013 Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Culturally and politically, Germany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayreuther-festspiele.de\/en\/\">Bayreuth festival<\/a> doesn\u2019t so much have baggage as its own industrial-scale luggage hangar. But it\u2019s also prized as the ultimate place to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/08\/imagine-a-world-without-wagner-bayreuth-150-liszt-brahms\">Richard Wagner<\/a>\u2019s operas. One hundred and fifty years after the composer launched the festival with the premiere of his epic Ring cycle, tickets for this summer\u2019s edition sold out within 90 minutes. No mean feat for a theatre with famously uncomfortable seats, no air conditioning and only one man\u2019s music on the menu. The <em>shortest<\/em> work lasts two-and-a-half hours without a break.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/aug\/10\/wagner-marathon-bayreuth-ring-cycle-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/aug\/10\/wagner-marathon-bayreuth-ring-cycle-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0578a021a41fd8c26cad300fb8352751f060fd27\/177_0_1771_1417\/master\/1771.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=da05bef8f7774a94972bcec2e6095846\" title=\"\u2018This is asking a lot of the buttocks\u2019: my 23-hour Wagner marathon on a rock hard seat in a heatwave\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does it feel to be locked into a venue notorious for its unpadded seating to experience a full-throttle Ring cycle and more? 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