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 ...

Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier co-direct the Bayreuth music festival. Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of ...

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BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his ...

Germany's legendary Bayreuth opera festival dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner opens Monday, but security fears and off-stage drama threaten to cast a long shadow over the 140-year-old event.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended her weekend at Hitler’s favorite opera house along with a hundred monster rats and a large proportion of her cabinet. Merkel was one of many guests of honor at ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when Valhalla ...

In the 18th century, Hamburg Opera broke free from the influence of Italy, giving rise to a new musical culture in Germany. Counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cenčić offers us a glimpse of this vibrant ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...