Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German author Michel Friedman, who is Jewish, gave a speech that was at the center of the weekend's opening activitiesEnrico ...

The Bayreuth Festival's 150th anniversary has been clouded by controversy surrounding German-Jewish speaker Michel Friedman. Yet it offers an opportunity to celebrate, including with an AI-enhanced ...

Richard Wagner created a monument to lovers with "Tristan and Isolde." But the new production by the Bayreuth Festival emphasizes the tale's darker side. An opening weekend full of surprises silenced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The golden Wagner figures designed by artist Ottmar Hörl a best-seller in BayreuthDwi Anoraganingrum/Panama Pictures/picture ...

"I would like to state explicitly that Katharina Wagner is changing the culture of remembrance in Bayreuth." With these words, spoken from the stage of the Bayreuth Festival, German-Jewish author ...

Join Nina Korbe at the opera this Saturday night for a production from this year’s Bayreuth Festival – the continuation of Richard Wagner’s epic cycle “The Ring,” his second opera Die Walküre ...

The 2026 Bayreuth Festival may have finished on the Green Hill, but the city is not quite ready to close the special celebration due to its 150th anniversary. Bayreuth celebrated this year the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house "Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A familiar face is missing from Bayreuth this year. After many years of attendance, former German Chancellor ...

Join Nina Korbe at the opera this Saturday night for a production from this year’s Bayreuth Festival – Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold: the first opera in his epic cycle “The Ring,” conducted by ...

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 ...