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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BAYREUTH, Germany — For serious music lovers ... exploitation and redemption — in ways wholly new in opera. Many a library shelf groans under tomes analyzing their meanings.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 festival said ...

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 ...