At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s ...

For Toscanini it was a great night, his Bayreuth debut. To his presence—perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor —was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions for the whole season.

Bayreuth and National Socialism 07/24/2012 July 24, 2012. The scandal surrounding Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin's reputed swastika tattoo and the ensuing cancellation of his Bayreuth Festival ...

Rediscovered films show a 'friendly' Hitler in Bayreuth 07/29/2016 July 29, 2016. Long-lost film material reveals a remarkably "friendly" and "modest" side of Adolf Hitler at the Bayreuth Festival.

Trail-blazing conductor Simone Young is set to be the first Australian and first woman to conduct Wagner's epic 15-hour Ring Cycle at its home in Bayreuth, Germany.