Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier co-direct the Bayreuth music festival. Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of ...

During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

For opera lovers the world over, the Bayreuth Festival, devoted to Wagner, is the Holy Grail William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The Telegraph, in particular Central Europe, the ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended her weekend at Hitler’s favorite opera house along with a hundred monster rats and a large proportion of her cabinet. Merkel was one of many guests of honor at ...

Germany's legendary Bayreuth opera festival dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner opens Monday, but security fears and off-stage drama threaten to cast a long shadow over the 140-year-old event.

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...