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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The red carpet is fixed in front of the Festspielhaus for the opening of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany ...

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 ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - A renovated Richard Wagner Museum opening in Bayreuth this weekend to coincide with the Bavarian city's annual Wagner opera festival puts the composer's anti-Semitism and ...

MUNICHMUNICH — Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, has died. He was 90. Wagner died on Sunday, the ...

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Reporting from Bonn, Germany — Nike Wagner suffered a bitter defeat in a family power struggle over Germany’s Bayreuth Festival, which is dedicated to the operas of her great-grandfather, Richard ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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 ...

BAYREUTH, GermanyBAYREUTH, Germany — The Bayreuth Festival intends to present “Rienzi” for the first time in 2026 for its 150th anniversary, going outside the canon of Richard Wagner’s final 10 operas ...