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Bayreuth Festival, also called the Richard Wagner Festival, annual season of performances of Wagner Cosima Wagner, 1837–1930, was the daughter of Liszt and the comtesse d'Agoult. From 1857 to 1870 she was the wife of Hans von Bülow . In 1870 she married Wagner. After his death she was largely responsible for the continuing fame of the Bayreuth festivals. ..... Click the link for more information. 's works, held in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. In about 1851, Wagner began to visualize a festival theater that would be devoted to the performance of great German works for the theater. In 1876 the Wagner Festival Theatre (the Festspielhaus) was completed at Bayreuth, and the first festival took place. Planned by Wagner himself, the Festspielhaus is an amphitheater with many notable features, including a sunken, covered orchestra pit and unusually fine acoustics. Despite the composer's original intention, the Bayreuth Festival presents performances only of Wagner's works, usually Parsifal, the "Ring" cycle, and one other work. The festivals were interrupted for seven years after World War II but resumed in 1951. BibliographySee study by F. Spotts (1996). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She faced overseeing the performances and social events of the Bayreuth Festival while her mortally ill father lay close by. Other complete sets available on CD are Karl Bohm's 1967 Bayreuth Festival cycle on Philips (a live recording prized by many), James Levine's with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon, Daniel Barenboim's with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra on Teldec and an old, monaural recording on Foyer with Clemens Krauss conducting the Bayreuth orchestra. Alberto's support for opera extends worldwide from the Metropolitan Opera to Covent Garden, from the Kirov Opera to the Bayreuth Festival, and from the Salzburg Festival to the Los Angeles Opera. |
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