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Jun 30, 2023 · The inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876. The first Bayreuth Festival took place in August 1876. The festival saw performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony. Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of four music dramas of Der Ring des Nibelungen, was also performed.
Jul 11, 2016 · The first of the Bayreuth Festivals was held in 1876 and ran up a deficit of what would equate to about half a million dollars today. Eventually Wagner wrangled a deal between Bayreuth and...
Dec 12, 2013 · The history of the Bayreuth Festival, the annual celebration of the music of Richard Wagner, is mired in controversy and scandal, as Mark Ronan reports. Frank Castorf's set for Siegfried, 2013 Richard Wagner's bicentenary in 2013 inspired several of the world’s major opera houses to create new productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
After Wagner's death, his widow Cosima assumed the management of the Festspiele.With the Bayreuth world premieres of Tristan and Isolde (1886), The Mastersingers of Nuremburg (1888), Tannhäuser (1891), Lohengrin (1894) a newly staged Ring (1896) and, finally, The Flying Dutchman(1901), she built up the Bayreuth repertoire as Wagner had wished (explicitly excluding three early works, The ...
May 21, 2018 · Bayreuth City in Bavaria, Germany, where an annual festival is held, staging exclusively the work of composer Richard Wagner. The festivals are held in the Festspielhaus, built to Wagner's specifications for the performance of great German theatre. The first festival was held in 1876. Pop. (1997) 73,669.
Oct 20, 2021 · The oldest and best known of music festivals, Bayreuth was from the beginning not simply a place for model performances of Wagner's works but equally the centre of an ideological cult, with the Festspielhaus its sacred shrine and audiences its devout pilgrims.
Performing Arts > Music: History > Bayreuth Festival, also called the Richard Wagner Festival, annual season of performances of Wagner 's works, held in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. Around 1851, Wagner began to visualize a festival theater that would be devoted to the performance of great German works for the theater.
