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    considered for merging. › The Bayreuth Festival (‹See Tfd›German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances...
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    The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (‹See Tfd›German: Bayreuther Festspielhaus, pronounced [baɪˈʁɔʏtɐ ˈfɛstʃpiːlˌhaʊs]) is an opera...
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    Franconia and has a population of 72,148 (2015). It hosts the annual Bayreuth Festival, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer...
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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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  • devotees of Richard Wagner's music who attended and supported the annual Bayreuth Festival in the later 19th and early twentieth centuries. As some of these...
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    of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly...
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    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 the...
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    Jahrhundertring (category Bayreuth Festival)
    at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976, celebrating the centenary of both the festival and the first performance of the complete cycle. The festival was directed...
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  • The Transformation of the World into Music (category Bayreuth Festival)
    in Musik - Bayreuth vor der Premiere) is a 1994 German documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is about the Bayreuth Festival and Richard...
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    Richard Wagner (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, which was galvanized by the efforts of his wife Cosima Wagner and...
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    including the premiere, which took place on 26 July 1882 at the Bayreuth Festival. In the last performance of the premiere series in 1882, Richard Wagner...
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    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 Wagner...
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    Bayreuth Airport (IATA: BYU, ICAO: EDQD), also called Verkehrslandeplatz Bayreuth in German, is a general-aviation non-towered airport serving the city...
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    Tfd›German: Markgräfliches Opernhaus) is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. Built between 1745 and 1750, it is one of Europe's few surviving...
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    Wolfgang Wagner (category People from Bayreuth)
    director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in...
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  • Wieland Wagner (category People from Bayreuth)
    opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative...
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    Katharina Wagner (category People from Bayreuth)
    Katharina Wagner (born 21 May 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage director and is the director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang...
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    Der Ring des Nibelungen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    performed in series. The first performance as a cycle opened the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, beginning with Das Rheingold on 13 August and ending with...
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    des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance...
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    Die Walküre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    stone for the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Northern Bavaria. He had originally envisaged holding the first Bayreuth Festival there in 1873, but delays in...
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    Patrice Chéreau (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes...
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    Steingraeber & Söhne (category Bayreuth)
    venue for the Franz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar-Bayreuth. As part of the Bayreuth Piano Festival initiated and hosted by Steingraeber, renowned artists...
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    Eva Wagner-Pasquier (category People from Bayreuth (district))
    the Bayreuth Festival which is largely dedicated to the stage works of their great-grandfather Richard Wagner. The joint appointment at Bayreuth followed...
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    Das Rheingold (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Rio de Janeiro (1921), as well many other major venues. After the 1896 revival, Das Rheingold was being performed regularly at the Bayreuth Festival, although...
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  • Ekkehard Wlaschiha (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Alberich, Klingsor and Friedrich von Telramund. He performed at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Metropolitan Opera, and left many recordings. Wlaschiha...
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  • The Confessions of Winifred Wagner (category Bayreuth Festival)
    of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried Wagner and responsible for the Bayreuth Festival from 1930 and 1945. The film is a five hours long interview where...
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    Tenortuben and Basstuben) are also referred to as Wagnertuben, Waldhorntuben, Bayreuth-tuben, Ring-tuben, or Horn-tuben by German writers, but it is most common...
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    Wahnfried (category Buildings and structures in Bayreuth)
    Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of Wahn (delusion, madness) and Fried(e) (peace...
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  • [citation needed] Christian Thielemann, the music director of the Bayreuth Festival from 2015–20, discussed the Tristan chord in his book, My Life with...
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    Olusola. Negotiating Performance: Osun in the Verbal and Visual Metaphors, Bayreuth, Working Papers, 2005. Afolabi, Kayode. Osun Osogbo - Sacred People and...
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