September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
It’s tough to score a ticket to the annual monthlong Bayreuth Festival, the brainchild of composer Richard Wagner. The event started in 1876 with the premiere of his four-opera cycle, Ring des Nibelungen, in the opera house he designed. Some opera-lovers linger several years on a wait list.
Wagner came to the small Bavarian city of Bayreuth, Germany, in 1872 to fulfill a lifelong dream: to build a new kind of opera house away from the cities that would serve as a home for his works. Located up a hill north of the town center in a bucolic setting, ...
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