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Katharina Wagner will lead the Bayreuth Festival for 5 more years
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe Bayreuth Festival in Germany announced on Tuesday that it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its...
Bayreuth Festival plans to present Wagner's 'Rienzi' for the first time in 2026
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Bayreuth Festival intends to present "Rienzi" for the first time in 2026 for its 150th...
Augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's `Parsifal' opens Bayreuth Festival
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. In the...
A Dynastic Struggle Worthy of a Wagner Opera
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA Dynastic Struggle Worthy of a Wagner OperaGetty Images During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a...
Bayreuth Festival to have three women conductors, three years after gender barrier broken
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium...
Nathalie Stutzmann become second woman to conduct at Bayreuth, 2 years after gender barrier broken
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTwo years after the debut of the Bayreuth Festival’s first female conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann...
Grace Bumbry, Pioneering Black Mezzo-Soprano Dies at 86
Billboard via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGrace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s...
Singer Dies At Age 61 After Being Diagnosed With Bile Duct Cancer
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSinger Stephen Gould performs as Peter Grimes in a rehearsal for the opera "Peter Grimes", written...
Zurich presents counterrevolutionary staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle under Noseda and Homoki
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki...
Art and artists
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJun. 16—Nobody knew me when I checked into the most recent meeting of the Wagner Society of Santa Fe. I had been invited as a guest, and as I sat down in the back row of the Quail Run community ...