Germany's renowned Bayreuth Festival of operas by Richard Wagner kicked off on Friday with a new production of "The ...

Less than 41 hours after his final bows for singing the title role of “Lohengrin” at Munich's Bavarian State Opera, Piotr ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival intends to present “Rienzi” for the first time in 2026 for its 150th anniversary, going outside the canon of Richard Wagner’s final 10 operas ...

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is a regular at the annual Bayreuth Festival, with she and her husband Joachim Sauer (pictured right) said to be big Richard Wagner fans. Her fashion choices at the ...

Richard Wagner designed an opera house on the green hill in Bayreuth specifically for his operas. He was the first to have the orchestra play from a pit in front of the stage while the audience sat in ...

Some information may no longer be current. Actors perform during the rehearsal of Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman in Bayreuth, Germany, earlier this month. Michaela Rehle/Reuters ...

Wagner -- Richard Wagner's grandson -- has led the 125-year-old festival in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth since 1973 and wants his second wife, Gudrun, to succeed him.

As the saying goes — some countries have royal houses, Germany has Bayreuth. The rich, the beautiful and the famous meet at the annual Richard Wagner Festival for all the latest gossip, and it ...

Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, has died at the age of 90.

The Nazi past is a sensitive issue for the Bayreuth festival, which was founded by Richard Wagner in 1872. Winifred Wagner, who headed the Bayreuth festival under Nazi rule, was a strong admirer ...

Germany's renowned Bayreuth Festival of operas by Richard Wagner is scheduled to kick off on Friday afternoon with a new ...

BERLIN - A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it ...