BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) — An edgy new opera production by Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky tackling Wagner’s anti-Semitism head-on won rapturous applause at Germany’s renowned Bayreuth opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year's traditionalist Wagner festival, which lasts until the end of August and is a place of annual pilgrimage for Germany's elite, will also be the last directed by the composer's 89 year-old ...

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, who ...

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 ...