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    The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (German: Bayreuther Festspielhaus, pronounced [baɪˈʁɔʏtɐ ˈfɛstʃpiːlˌhaʊs]) is an opera house north...
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    Parsifal. Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the...
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    start of modern music. Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal...
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    he toyed with the idea of building his own festival hall (the Festspielhaus) in Bayreuth. The town supported him in this project and made a piece of land...
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    acoustics of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a...
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  • Bayreuth Festspielhaus or the Bayreuth Festival Theatre in Bayreuth, Germany Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany Grosses Festspielhaus (Grand...
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    received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876. Wagner wrote the Ring librettos in reverse order...
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    second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works; after his death she devoted...
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    year since the 75th anniversary season in 1951. Its venue is the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which was built for the first festival. Attendance at the festival...
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    Ring Cycle or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of...
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    women. He eventually had a purpose-built theatre constructed, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, in which to perform this work. The theatre has a special stage...
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    received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876. As the Ring cycle was conceived by Wagner in...
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    (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of...
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    Valkyries and I don't know what else." Once the Ring had been performed in Bayreuth in 1876, Wagner lifted the embargo. He himself conducted it in London on...
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    "Comedy in antique style" "Consecrated stage festival play" Opera portal Bayreuth canon List of compositions by Richard Wagner Gutman. pp. 46–47 Millington...
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  • shows them walking around Bayreuth, Germany, inside and outside the Franz Liszt Museum, Wahnfried, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, sitting inside the Festspiel...
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  • The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra is a seasonal German orchestra based at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus for the annual summer festival Bayreuth Festival. It...
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    Wahnfried (category Buildings and structures in Bayreuth)
    the villa, with archive rooms and a new pavilion. Along with the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wahnfried has become a shrine for admirers of Wagner. Visitors...
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    1870. Wagner was now planning his great personal opera house – the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Ludwig initially refused to support the grandiose project. When...
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    Wagner died in 1883. The first production of the opera at Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus (originally constructed for the performance of his Ring Cycle),...
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    conclusion. From the first complete production of the Ring, at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876, it was established that the Rhinemaidens should be depicted...
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    house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Semper was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in Altona...
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    Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869 to Richard...
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    Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre), Bayreuth Cologne Opera, Cologne Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich...
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    Richard Wagner inaugurated his Bayreuth Festspielhaus by conducting the Ninth; since then it is traditional to open each Bayreuth Festival with a performance...
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    indoor arena, a music club, a cinema and exhibition space. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Germany is a theatre designed and built for performances of one...
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    Siegmund in the first complete production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth Festspielhaus 1876). Born in Erxleben, in the Prussian Province of Saxony (now...
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    recovered: Liszt contributed financially to the building of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1871, and he began to correspond with Wagner and Cosima again...
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    takeover and unification of Germany in 1871. After Wagner's death in 1883, Bayreuth increasingly became a focus for German nationalists attracted by the mythos...
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    March 1876, but the opera was only performed in his own theatre at the Bayreuth Festival after his death; Cosima Wagner, his widow, oversaw this in 1886...
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