The daytime high in Bayreuth fluctuated around 35 degrees Celsius last weekend. The heat peaked around 4 p.m. Elderly gentlemen in black formal attire and noblewomen in dresses flocked to the theater.

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 ...

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 ...

Der österreichische Regisseur Valentin Schwarz plant den Bayreuther "Ring des Nibelungen" in der Art einer modernen Netflix-Serie. "Dass der 'Ring' in Bayreuth innerhalb nur einer Woche komplett ...

Mairi Nicolson brings you back to this year’s Bayreuth Festival - for the final instalment of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle Götterdämmerung conducted by Australia’s very own Simone Young. “I have had a ...

A handout photo shows performers rehearsing for the opera 'Twilight of the Gods' in Bayreuth, Germany, on July 25, 2013. Frank Castorf, the controversial German theatre director who staged Richard ...

Eindrücklich die Erinnerung, wie es ward. Im Sommer 2022, als im Bayreuther Festspielhaus der Vorhang fiel nach der „Götterdämmerung“, dem vierten und letzten Teil von Richard Wagners „Ring des ...