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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On April 12 the Opera House will be reopened after a lengthy renovation. Built by famous theatre architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, it is one of the most spectacular buildings of European Baroque ...

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 ...

Gudrun Wagner, wife of the Bayreuth Opera Festival’s director and a key figure in the family battle over control of the German arts institution that was founded by composer Richard Wagner, has died.

The 99th season of Germany's Bayreuth festival opened Sunday, the first edition of the annual Wagner opera celebration held since the death of longtime head Wolfgang Wagner. German Chancellor Angela ...

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 ...