Bayreuth Festival
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The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conc
Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the festival's main venue, in 2006
Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1882
Felix Mottl conducted Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth in 1886.
Patronage certificate for funding the Bayreuth festival, issued 22 May 1922
Richard Wagner
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most compose
Bayreuth Festival
…Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der…
Wagner in 1871
Wagner's birthplace, at 3, the Brühl, Leipzig
Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer (1835), by Alexander von Otterstedt
Wagner c. 1840, by Ernest Benedikt Kietz