FILE - Katharina Wagner, artistic director of the Bayreuth Wagner festival, answers questions during a press conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Wednesday, July, 22, 2009. The Bayreuth Festival ...

During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...

Germany's Bayreuth Festival held its opening gala Wednesday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel among the guests, days after weathering a scandal over an opera singer's Nazi tattoo. The festival's 101st ...

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) and her husband Joachim Sauer stand on the festival grounds during a break at the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Richard Wagner's opera "Die ...

We took a brief look at the Bayreuth Festival when conductor Andris Nelsons bowed out of the opening night. Almost 60,000 people shuffle through Bayreuth every summer paying homage. However, as big a ...

Not to mention her great-grandfather. Bayreuth founder Wagner welcomed inventive perspectives on his works, though he only lived to see the "Ring" and "Parsifal" produced at the festival. He designed ...

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BERLINBERLIN — The Bayreuth Festival in Germany announced on Tuesday that it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a ...