Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Katharina Wagner, artistic director of the Bayreuth Wagner festival, answers questions during a press conference in Munich, ...

Marek Janowski, who made his Bayreuth debut at 77, is retiring from the Tokyo Spring Festival this year at the age of 87. For ...

For the first time in its 150-year history, the Bayreuth Festival staged Wagner’s Rienzi, Hitler’s favorite opera, reopening questions about propaganda and antisemitism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Journalist Michel Friedman (L) and Katharina Wagner, artistic director and managing director of the Bayreuth Festival, ...

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 ...

The last weekend in July marks the beginning of the Bayreuth Festival, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The event regularly attracts international opera fans and distinguished ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — 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 for the ...

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 “Ring,” ...

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 ...