The first Bayreuth Festival verged on disaster. Thousands of guests from all over Europe gathered in the summer of 1876 for the premiere of Wagner's Ring, but there weren't enough hotels, and the town ...

Korean opera singer Samuel Youn poses on July 24, 2012 in front of the Bayreuth music festival theatre in Bayreuth, southern Germany. Youn who stepped in to salvage the Bayreuth Festival's opening ...

Richard Wagner's grandson is resigning after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth Festival, officials said Tuesday, but the long-running family feuds over who will succeed him are set to continue.

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Conductor Andris Nelsons has abruptly withdrawn from this summer’s production of the Wagner opera “Parsifal” at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival in Germany. “With utmost respect to the Bayreuth ...

Bayreuth, operatic shrine erected by Richard Wagner to himself, is getting ready for its first wide-open festival since 1939—and this time under the direction of grandsons Wieland Wagner, 33, and ...

The annual Bayreuth music festival in Germany, which showcases the music of 19th century German composer Richard Wagner, has long been overshadowed by Wagner’s anti-Semitism and by Adolph Hitler’s ...

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