Bavarian State Opera
Even though Konwitschny had already directed operas in West Germany ("Bluebeard's Castle", Kassel, 1987, and "Fidelio", Basel, 1989), it was only after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that his international career took off. After Puccini and Rossini operas in Graz, Leipzig and Basel, Konwitschny turned to Wagner: "Parsifal" (1995, Bavarian State Opera), "Tannhäuser" (1997, Dresden Semperoper), "Lohengrin" (1998, Hamburg State Opera), "Tristan und Isolde" (1998, Bavarian State Opera), and a highly acclaimed "Götterdämmerung" (2000, Staatsoper Stuttgart).