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 ...

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 ...

Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” when Valhalla goes up in flames. In this ...

A special Ring Cycle will be performed for the 150th anniversary Bayreuth Festival in 2026, the annual Richard Wagner showcase said as this season’s schedule ended with sellouts for all 30 ...

FILE - Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house "Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010. (Eckehard Schulz/DAPD via AP) (Eckehard Schulz) The Bayreuth Festival ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A battle between three female descendants of Richard Wagner for the leadership of one of the world's top operatic events has fixated Germans ahead of the opening of this year's ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Bayreuth Festival’s production of “Parsifal” will feature augmented reality. Securing the equipment set off a financial and philosophical dispute.

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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 ...