What's So Special About The Bayreuth Festival - The Wagnerian

Mastodon What's So Special About The Bayreuth Festival - The Wagnerian

HOME
About
Contact Us
Links
Wagner Books
Wagner Scrapbook
Wagner in 2026: A Guide

skip to main | skip to sidebar

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

What's So Special About The Bayreuth Festival

To get you "in the mood" for the first day of the Festival tomorrow, 25 July, a little video overview from DW

Posted by The Wagnerian at 10:15:00 pm

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Newer Post Older Post Home

Featured

A New Vorspiel: The Wagnerian Joins Substack

Book Of The Month

Book Of The Month

Most Popular Articles

Jung Discusses The Collective Unconsciousness, Music, Wagner & Perhaps Opeth

Our editor is wakened from, what seems, a prolonged slumber, due to the combined forces of Jung, Wagner and Doom/Death/Prog Metal band Ope...
New remastering of Keilberth's stereo Flying Dutchman 1955, Bayreuth

This is a "press release" and thus I cannot vouch for it's accuracy. However, I will say that I have the Testament release and...
Atlanta Opera to Present Götterdämmerung in 2026

By Charles P Arden The Atlanta Opera is preparing to conclude its Ring cycle with Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung . This production ma...
Wagner on Beethoven

Brought about by listening to Wagner's piano transcript of Beethoven's 9th (below should you have access to Spotify). I think it ...
Two rings to rule them all: a comparative study of Tolkien and Wagner

The following excellent and highly accessible paper acts as a comparative analysis (with a thesis we think highly original) of both Wagner a...
The Best Ring Cycle Of All Time: The Winners

What would a Wagner related awards ceremony be without a significant prelude? This year will see the first of what will be an annual ...
The Enigma of Purity: Wagner's Parsifal in the 21st Century

In attempting to explore contemporary productions of Parsifal, Charles P Arden finds he must first investigate its past. By Charles P Arden ...
Neuschwanstein and the Wagnerian Legacy: A UNESCO Crown for the Swan King's Dream

By Charles Gramline Hohenschwangau, Bavaria – In a momentous announcement that resonates deeply within the hallowed halls of classical musi...
Listen Now: When Tolkien Stole Wagner's Ring

Tolkien always vehemently denied any connection between his Lord of the Rings and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He once said: 'Both ring...
A History of Ring Cycle productions. Or: Whatever Became of the Breastplates?

The Valencia Ring, Spain - 2009 Chapter eleven of David Littlejohn's "The Ultimate Art. Essays around and about Opera" (...

Bloggers to keep an eye on.

operaramblings

Payadora in the RBA - Last Wednesday’s lunchtime’s concert in the RBA was given by Payadora Tango Ensemble with guest vocalist Elbio Fernandez. I’ve been following pretty much ...
5 hours ago
Boulezian

JACK Quartet: Lachenmann, 7 February 2026 - Wigmore Hall String Quartet no.3, ‘Grido’ *Mes Adieux*, for string trio String Quartet no.1, ‘Gran Torso’ String Quartet no.2, ‘Reigen seliger Geister‘ ...
1 week ago
I HEAR VOICES

Schumann/Wagner, Tamara Wilson/Philippe Jordan, NHK Symphony Orchestra (at the NHK Hall, Tokyo), 08.02.2026 - For this afternoon, the NHK Symphony Orchestra decided, as much as Siegfried, to take a little journey through the Rhine. It started on a lighter one with ...
1 week ago
Art and Abart

An old and very fragrant red rose - This very old red rose was transplanted into my garden to save it from a renovators wrecking ball a couple of years ago when the house it was planted nex...
2 weeks ago
MIAMI ☼ CLÁSICA

El Arsht Center, entre opereta y oratorio - El último fin de semana, Miami asistió a dos propuestas musicales en las antípodas, si bien ambas pueden —y deben— coexistir dentro del panorama cultural ...
2 weeks ago
Where's Runnicles

Favourite Lenses: Why I keep coming back to the Sigma 45mm - [image: Black and White photo of the Barbican Centre] *Barbican light and shadow* For my first post in over seven years, I'm taking a bit of a new direct...
5 weeks ago
Wagner & Heavy Metal - Blog

Imprints of Man: Death Metal for piano - New York metal trio Imperial Triumphant is my best discovery of 2025 (better late than never to a party). Now there’s a new record—not with new songs, but ...
3 months ago
The Wagner Blog

NY Wagner Society Announces Auditions for Grants - The Wagner Society of New York has, for many years, awarded grants to young singers whose gifts and talents indicate that they may have a future in the Wag...
1 year ago
Sacrifice

The Future - Today is Nostradomus day.These are my predictions for the coming year (I hoope I'm wrong)> First, Trump will begin the roundup and deportaton anyone he ded...
1 year ago
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

Lahti - I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's revelatory B...
2 years ago
Unpredictable Inevitability

フェラ友の作り方 - 公園で彼氏のあれをフェラしているところを異性の友達 …
4 years ago
Think Classical

Fake Quotes on Gun Control Attributed to National Socialists - This blog post by American academic in media studies, Professor Randall Bytwerk, on fake and apocryphal quotes often attributed to leading figures in the ...
7 years ago
Wagner's Ring | A Ring of the Nibelung Resource

Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018! - Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19 Season open...
8 years ago
Wotan At The Movies

Leonard Simon Nimoy March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015 - A very sad day. "I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be he...
10 years ago
Wagner Tripping

The Final Post: Understanding and Forgiveness for All - I began this blog a year ago with the aim of resolving the cognitive dissonance between my love of Wagner’s music with his reputation as a monster. I start...
12 years ago

Show 5 Show All

Copyright © 2011. The Wagnerian . All Rights Reserved