Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882.

A Jewish author due to speak about Richard Wagner's antisemitism at the opening of this year's Bayreuth Festival has accused organisers of reducing attempts to confront the composer's legacy "to ...

What do you do when your idol’s biggest fan is Hitler? Stephen Fry, the lovable 55-year-old English actor and writer, goes to Bayreuth. That’s the town in southern Germany where 19th-century composer ...

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 ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

The Bayreuth Festival had canceled a planned memorial lecture featuring Jewish author and broadcaster Michel Friedman, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German ...