Three days before premiere, Alberich has gone sick.
Johannes Martin Kränzle 
has been whisked in from Frankfurt to replace poorly Wolfgang Koch.
There has already been a Fasolt replacement – Thomas Gumbel for Diogenes Randes.
Maybe if the singers were allowed to keep their clothes on, they wouldn’t start sneezing all over the set.
If I remember the libretto correctly Alberich is SUPPOSED to sneeze all over the set.
ALBERICH:
(Er prustet)
Feuchtes Nass
füllt mir die Nase:
verfluchtes Niesen!
(Er ist in Woglindes Nähe angelang)
WOGLINDE
(lachend)
Prustend naht
meines Freiers Pracht!
Gesundheit.
P
It looks like Munich wants to save money on costumes. I think the intent is to make artists look naked, but they most obviously are NOT. It’s more like Wagner in cheap underwear.
It’s a William Gibson inspired staging with the whole cast wearing Cayce Pollard Units (CPUs)