At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s ...

Everyone is replaceable if necessary.” While Bayreuth is not the opera world’s only dynastic festival—England’s annual Glyndebourne Festival was founded in 1934 by the Christie family ...

For opera lovers the world over, the Bayreuth Festival is the Holy Grail – and like the legend of the Holy Grail, it divides music buffs into two rival camps: believers and unbelievers.

Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe attended this ...

The Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, opened with "The Flying Dutchman," whose male chorus is dressed in identical gray business suits and whose characters are driven by self-absorbed ambition ...

Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival, which celebrates the work of Richard Wagner, is threatened by a strike this year by stagehands and technicians. Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner ...

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 event.

BERLIN – The Bayreuth opera festival says bass-baritone Samuel Youn has stepped in to take the lead role in "The Flying Dutchman," the annual event's opening production, after Evgeny Nikitin ...

Commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine, wife of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg–Bayreuth, it was designed by the renowned theatre architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena. As a court opera house in a public ...

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 ...

An Israeli orchestra is performing the music of Richard Wagner at the annual Bayreuth opera festival, breaking the unofficial rule against playing the music of Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer.