Top Berlin politicians including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and ex-chancellor Angela Merkel turned out in force in the ...

Bayreuth Festival's 150th anniversary is clouded by controversy surrounding German-Jewish speaker Michel Friedman. Yet it ...

The Bayreuth Festival is marking its founding anniversary with a ceremony and a performance of Beethoven, as the world-famous ...

The Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner’s operas have been performed for 150 years, is inconvenient and unpleasant. Why does it ...

The Bayreuth Festival is celebrating its anniversary with a ceremony and music by Beethoven: 150 years ago, composer Richard ...

Calls for the composer’s descendants to relinquish their hold are growing but that would risk robbing the event of its USP ...

Should the past be confronted — or avoided? Why the Wagner festival's handling of its Nazi-era legacy remains a contentious ...

During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...