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 ...

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.

BAYREUTH, GermanyBAYREUTH, Germany — The annual Bayreuth opera festival opened under new management on Saturday, with composer Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughters in charge for the first time after ...

The opera "Tristan und Isolde" kicked off the Bayreuth Festival, offering brief reprieve from news of war, climate catastrophes and an ongoing pandemic. Director Roland Schwab had set Wagner's drama ...

It seems that if you want to play Wagner’s Dutchman on stage, a Nazi tattoo just ain’t gonna fly. Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin withdrew from the titular role of the famed German opera on Saturday ...

The 99th season of Germany's Bayreuth festival opened Sunday, the first edition of the annual Wagner opera celebration held since the death of longtime head Wolfgang Wagner. German Chancellor Angela ...

Germany’s annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of “Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg” live via the Internet. The catch is the price – $77 ...