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
Horst Stein
…performances. He returned to the Hamburg State Opera as general music director from 1972 to 1977. In 1952, Stein began work as a conducting assistant at the Bayreuth Festival to such conductors as Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan. One source estimates that he subsequently conducted…
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