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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new production of Hitler's favorite opera, 'Rienzi' opened the 150th Bayreuth FestivalEnrico Nawrath Even before opening night, ...

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. ‘In that hour, it all began.” ...

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 ...

As the Norns, mythical weavers of destiny, represent the past, present, and future, so too does this sadly unappreciated ...

Some time in the middle of Rheingold, about an hour into Wagner’s 15-hour Ring Cycle, a woman in the audience took ill from the heat and had to be shuffled out of the theatre. The town of Bayreuth had ...

The 43-year-old Ukrainian opened the festival dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner by conducting a new production of The Flying Dutchman directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Asked last week how she ...

You’re back in Bayreuth with Mairi Nicolson for this year’s production of Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking Tristan und Isolde at the fabled festival. Praised as “the ultimate opera,” Wagner started ...