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Imagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try

As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

The Guardian - UK

Specially built wood horn known as holztrompete sounds at Met Opera in Wagner's `Tristan und Isolde'

A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage moment

The Independent UK

Bayreuth's 2025 production of Wagner's 'Meistersinger' features a Technicolor look — and a twist

In Wagner's home theater in Bayreuth, Germany, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.”

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Tenor Piotr Beczała sings different productions of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' 41 hours apart

The tenor Piotr Beczała has been impressing audiences with his back-to-back performances in Wagner's “Lohengrin” in less than 41 hours

The Independent UK

From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth

The Guardian - UK

Self-loathing blends with love at Bayreuth 'Tristan und Isolde' by director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson

Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival is becomes a psychoanalytic examination of self-loathing and burdensome expectations

The Independent UK

Simone Young to be first Australian conductor to perform at Bayreuth festival in 147-year history

The Australian conductor will also be the first woman to perform the Ring cycle at the annual celebration of Wagner since it began in 1876

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Stephen Gould obituary

Tenor whose robust and attractive tone enhanced a thrillingly heroic delivery

The Guardian - UK

‘The most dangerous stage I’ve ever been on’: the wildest performances of Wagner’s Ring

Gods! Dragons! Horned helmets! Swords! Valkyries! The 15-hour apocalyptic epic is about to explode onto the Royal Opera stage. But what’s the best way to tackle ‘the ultimate opera’?

The Guardian - UK

Augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's `Parsifal' opens Bayreuth Festival

Director Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's “Parsifal” premiered in the the theater the composer conceived of in the late 1880s

The Independent UK

Graham Clark obituary

Tenor who loved exploring dramatic possibilities in Wagner with imaginative directors at Bayreuth and Covent Garden

The Guardian - UK

Bayreuth Festival plans to present Wagner's 'Rienzi' for the first time in 2026

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

The Independent UK

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival, dies at 86

Grace Bumbry was part of generation of acclaimed Black opera singers that included Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Reri Grist and Martina Arroyo.

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Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died

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Robert Habeck was Germany’s most popular politician. Then he took office

He helped get the Greens into government, but Putin’s war threw everything he stood for into question

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The Ring Cycle review – ideas-free patchwork staging signals Bayreuth’s fading authority

Valentin Schwarz’s new staging of Wagner’s epic has some thought-provoking moments, but few were sustainable and most were just distracting

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