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 ...

BAYREUTH, GermanyBAYREUTH, Germany — The annual Bayreuth opera festival opened under new management on Saturday, with composer Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughters in charge for the first time after ...

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.

Germany’s annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of “Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg” live via the Internet. The catch is the price – $77 ...

Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of Richard, is to step down as director of the Bayreuth Festival, ending a long controversy over his leadership. He's been in charge for 57 years. Wolfgang Wagner will ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer arrives at Festival Hall in Bayreuth, Germany, Sunday July 25, 2021, at the start of the Richard Wagner Festival with a new production of ...

Gudrun Wagner, wife of the Bayreuth Opera Festival’s director and a key figure in the family battle over control of the German arts institution that was founded by composer Richard Wagner, has died.

The first commissioned work of new music in Bayreuth Festival history and the first world premiere there since 1882: the multimedia fairy tale "der verschwundene hochzeiter" (The Bridegroom ...

The opera "Tristan und Isolde" kicked off the Bayreuth Festival, offering brief reprieve from news of war, climate catastrophes and an ongoing pandemic. Director Roland Schwab had set Wagner's drama ...

BERLINBERLIN — The annual Bayreuth opera festival has returned after a one-year break forced by the coronavirus pandemic, with a woman conducting for the first time in the 145-year history of the ...