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	Bayreuth Festival -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The driving force behind the composer's vision for the Festival was the ability to perform his (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) operas in a perfectly ideal situation, according to Wagner's own standards.
		The festival was plagued by money problems in its early years, and owes its survival to most generous support from (Click link for more info and facts about King Ludwig II) King Ludwig II of (A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory) Bavaria.
		The Festival was closed during (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II and the town of Bayreuth sustained heavy bomb damage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bayreuth_festival.htm (495 words)

	Bayreuth Festival on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The festivals were interrupted for seven years after World War II but resumed in 1951.
		The battles of Bayreuth A composer worshipped by the Nazis, a family at war over his artistic legacy: the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth remains steeped in controversy, says Rupert Christiansen
		Wolfgang Wagner à Bayreuth, le 5 juin 2000 Le 91e Festival de Bayreuth a pris fin mercredi sur une représentation des "Maî.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BayruthF1es.asp (698 words)

	Bayreuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bayreuth is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge.
		Bayreuth was first mentioned in 1194 and may have been founded by the counts of Andechs.
		To the north of Bayreuth is the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, an opera house specially constructed for the performance of Wagner's operas.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bayreuth.htm (540 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The twilight of the Wagners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bayreuth became a Nazi shrine and the Wagner legacy became forever intertwined with that of the Third Reich.
		Bayreuth and conservatism are words that fall naturally together, but the association is by no means the whole story.
		The Bayreuth festival should be a much more open event, encouraging other art forms, and should constantly re-examine all aspects of Wagner's legacy, including his political and cultural influence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/story/0,3604,329369,00.html (1173 words)

	Bayreuther Festspiele
		Bayreuth was also preferable to Nuremberg, because apart from Jean Paul and its baroque architecture, there was nothing that could compete with the fruits of Wagnerism.
		If the Wagner theatre were established in Bayreuth, it would stand at the geographical heart of Germany, and people from all over Germany could make pilgrimages to the fountain of their spiritual rebirth.
		The Bayreuth Festival was a unique cultural event in Germany, which Emperor Wilhelm I honoured with his presence.
	users.utu.fi /hansalmi/bayreuth.html (2596 words)

	RICHARD WAGNER MUSEUM BAYREUTH - history
		Bayreuth's Richard Wagner Memorial collection, enriched by numerous valuable documents of the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation (formerly known as the Richard Wagner Family Archive or Wahnfried Archive), which was at the time located in the Neues Schloß, was integrated into the portion of the museum's collection that has been continuously on display.
		The ongoing exhibition on the life and works of Richard Wagner and the history of the Bayreuth Festival offers a multitude of original written and graphic material and is situated in the rooms of the mezzanine and top floor, the family's former private living quarters, bedrooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms and children's rooms.
		The history of the New Bayreuth from 1951 onwards is to be presented multimedially in future, and in the newly-created space an exhibition focusing on Wagner's non-artistic, political and ideological endeavours is to be presented.
	www.wahnfried.de /_engl/wahnfried/geschichte.html (1162 words)

	Historic Opera - Bayreuth Opera Singers 1
		Bayreuther Bühnen-Festspiele: Although singers in Bayreuth appeared in earlier composite postcards (see Bayreuth - Composite Postcards), the Bayreuth postcards on this page are the earliest dedicated solely to singers at the Festivals.
		He was invited by Cosima Wagner to sing Loge at the Bayreuth Festival of 1898.
		She was invited by Siegfried Wagner to the 1909 Festival, subsequently returning in 1911, 1912 and 1924.
	www.historicopera.com /jbayreuth1_page.htm (1456 words)

	Middle East Online
		Bayreuth is synonymous with the annual month-long summer music festival dedicated exclusively to the works of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), a vitriolic anti-semite and the favourite composer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
		But here in Bayreuth, the youngsters are integrated into a wider group of around 350 musicians from a whole range of different countries, and can take part in workshops and courses on subjects ranging from symphony orchestra to chamber music, composition, music theatre, contemporary dance, literature, music criticism and cultural management.
		That was due not only to the magical name of Bayreuth, but also to the high quality of the festival itself, where top-name conductors, instrumentalists and tutors coach and groom the youngsters for future careers in the arts.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=6572 (623 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bayreuth, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Founded in the mid-12th cent., Bayreuth belonged to a branch of the Hohenzollern family from 1248 to 1791, when it was annexed by Prussia.
		Richard Wagner lived in Bayreuth from 1872 to 1883, and the annual Bayreuth Festival is held in the Festspielhaus, an opera house designed by Wagner and built in 1872–76.
		Wagner and Franz Liszt are buried in Bayreuth.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BayruthGer.html (211 words)

	Learn more about Bayreuth Festspielhaus in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (German: "Bayreuth Festival House") is an opera house located north of the town of Bayreuth in Germany, dedicated to performing the operas of Richard Wagner.
		It was first opened for the premiere of the complete cycle of The Ring of the Nibelung, given there one opera each night between 13 and 17 August 1876.
		The Festspielhaus is the venue of the annual Richard Wagner Festival, during which Wagner's operas, such as The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, are given on a repertory basis.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/ba/bayreuth_festspielhaus.html (255 words)

	Historic Opera - Bayreuth Opera Singers 4
		She was a major attraction at the Bayreuth Festivals (1927-1931), particularly known for her Brünnhildes and Isolde.
		She performed at the Bayreuth Festivals of 1911 and 1913.
		His Siegfried was seen at the 1924 and 1925 Bayreuth Festivals, which is a good indication of the approximate date of these postcards.
	www.historicopera.com /jbayreuth4_page.htm (1220 words)

	Loney's Show Notes
		Although Wolfgang Wagner—who had revived the Festival after World War II, with his late brother Wieland—remained in control and continued his admirable work as a fund-raiser, business-manager, and artistic director, he was no longer the proprietor of the Festival and its historic theatre.
		When the Festival, its historic real-estate, and all the related Wagneriana passed to the Bavarian State, the principle was established that future direction of the Festival should, whenever feasible, pass on to a Wagner descendant.
		Bayreuth's very good fortune, in its post-war revival years, was to be led by the two Wagner brothers, who were both able directors, designers, and planners.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /lt00092t.htm (5531 words)

	Wagner women in festival feud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also centre stage is 81-year-old Wolfgang Wagner, the present patriarch of the Bayreuth festival and grandson of the composer.
		Last night the 24-strong festival board was due to vote on his successor but, riven by factions, it put off the decision until later this year.
		Nike Wagner, Wolfgang's 54-year-old niece, believes Bayreuth must widen its scope to include composers such as Beethoven and those inspired by Wagner if it is to retain its place as among the finest opera festivals in the world.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/06/06/wwag06.html (575 words)

	classical music - andante - wagnerians outraged by hiring of radical stage directors at bayreuth
		Some Wagner devotees are outraged by the Bayreuth Festival's decision to place two major productions in the hands of directors known for using explicit sex and left-wing political themes in their stagings, the Telegraph of London reports.
		But Wagner fans, many of whom consider Bayreuth to be the guardian of a conservative performance tradition, have been complaining about the decisions.
		The writer, dramaturge and great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner talks about her hopes for the Bayreuth Festival, the upcoming Ring cycle at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the work of her father, the legendary stage director Wieland Wagner.
	www.andante.com /Article/article.cfm?id=21544 (479 words)

	Controversy on the summer festival circuit
		In recent years, two of Europe's most prestigious summer music festivals, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany and the Salzburg Festival in Austria, have been as newsworthy for happenings offstage as for the operas and concerts presented onstage.
		In Bayreuth, established by composer Richard Wagner in 1876 in a small Bavarian city and devoted solely to his operas ever since, the ongoing drama involves the notoriously dysfunctional Wagner family.
		As for the current Bayreuth festival, which opened July 25 and runs through Aug. 28, onstage controversy erupted opening night with a new production of "Parsifal.'' Conducted by Pierre Boulez, it was directed by Christoph Schlingensief, a German director with a taste for the unexpected and no experience in opera.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/sho-sunday-salzburg08.html (1268 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Director snipes at star tenor during fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avant-garde director Christoph Schlingensief's production premiered at the Bayreuth festival Sunday, drawing a mixed reaction, with some of the fl-tie audience booing at the conclusion of the performance in the opera house Wagner had built in the 19th century to stage his works.
		The festival's biggest controversy in years reignited Monday with Schlingensief's broadside against tenor Endrik Wottrich, who has called the director's version "an abomination" that strays too far from Wagner's tale of medieval knight-priests and the Holy Grail.
		Festival director Wolfgang Wagner, an 84-year-old grandson of the composer, defended Wottrich's previous criticism that the director's production was an unworthy interpretation of Wagner's original.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/07/26/director_snipes_at_star_tenor_during_fest?mode=PF (362 words)

	DigitalJournal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bayreuth - The house that Wagner built: the Bayreuth Festspielhaus where for six weeks each summer, the works of 19th Century opera composer Richard Wagner are performed, not always to everyone's taste or liking.
		BAYREUTH, Germany (dpa) - The curtain has now gone up on a 91st Bayreuth Festival characteristically overflowing with the glitterati but uncharacteristically lacking in squabbling and speculation over Wolfgang Wagner's possible successors.
		Making her Bayreuth debut this summer is Petra-Maria Schnitzer as Elsa singing opposite Peter Seiffert in the fourth year of Keith Warner's staging of "Lohengrin", this time under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis.
	www.digitaljournal.com /print.htm?id=3193 (678 words)

	CBC Arts: Bayreuth Wagner fest draws cheers at opening
		Oue was the first Asian conductor to perform at the festival, which is celebrating its 94th edition this year.
		Festival organizers receive tens of thousands of applications annually and it can take up to a decade on the waiting list to receive tickets, which are selected by computerized lottery.
		Bayreuth is where Wagner himself first staged his epic four-part Ring Cycle in 1876.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/07/26/Arts/bayreuth050726.html (418 words)

	The Bayreuth Festival celebrates its 125th anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		None of this has materialized, however, and Bayreuth remains known today for what has made it famous to millions of people all over the world: for the Richard Wagner Festival held every summer in Wagner's own specially designed "Festspielhaus", or Festival Hall.
		Although the history of the festival has been documented in many publications, we would like to mark its 125th anniversary by providing a few salient facts and interesting anecdotes.
		As the Bayreuth Festival's exclusive video partner for many years now, Unitel has documented all the most striking and controversial productions held there since the "Centennial Ring" of Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/010801.htm (586 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Bayreuth director cools succession battle
		Richard Wagner founded the Bayreuth festival in 1876, believing that the out-of-the-way Bavarian village would be an appropriately serious and spiritual home for his works.
		Wagner died before the festival was a decade old and its management passed to his widow, Cosima, and later to his children and grandchildren.
		Wolfgang Wagner is perceived to have done much in the immediate post-war period to have distanced the festival from the Nazi associations of 1933-1945.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1460000/1460834.stm (435 words)

	Bayreuth Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Impressions of this year's Richard Wagner Festival at Bayreuth, which concluded on Monday evening with the last of 30 sold-out performances of Wagner's lyrical masterpiece Lohengrin, have been decidedly mixed.
		If there was anything that cast a gloom over the festival it was the seemingly endless quarrel with and among the singers.
		This is the difficult situation to be faced by the members of the board of the Wagner Foundation in their late-autumn meeting.
	www.ngz-online.de /news/german/2000-0829/wagner.html (597 words)

	98.7WFMT Radio Network \| Bayreuth Festival Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The world’s most famous opera festival is imbued with the spirit of its founder, Richard Wagner, whose genius lives on in Bayreuth.
		Music drama, a total unity of music and dramatic theater, was his ideal, corresponding to his view of how it should be understood – by way of "emotional insight".
		And since he felt that the opera houses in the centers of culture had certain deficits, he took his ambitions to a remote town and designed his own festival theater there with the precise acoustical and technical qualities needed for his works.
	www.wfmt.com /radionetwork/bayreuth.html (381 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Give peace a chance
		It is high time that the festival was now judged for what it is, rather than what it was or what it might have been.
		Increasingly, the main decisions at Bayreuth are made not by Wolfgang, nor by Thielemann, but by Klaus Schultz, who has held the strange-sounding post of "interim head" of the festival since the beginning of the year.
		In the battle for the Bayreuth succession between the embittered children of Wolfgang's two marriages, and the equally driven children of his brother Wieland and his sister Verena, all are now losers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,775811,00.html (1184 words)

	Bayreuth : A History of the Wagner Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The operatic festival Richard Wagner founded in 1876 is the oldest and most famous in the world.
		Fascinating for the way it weaves the history of the festival and the Wagner family into the overall context of German history in the 19th and 20th centuries, it should be enjoyed by a much wider audience.
		The growth of virulent nationalism, and the birth of National Socialism and all the evil that followed were intimately intertwined with the evolution of Bayreuth, and they are part of this highly interesting story.
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	Bayreuth Wagner Festival 2005 tickets, Bayreuth Festival tickets, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Bayreuth we have reserved accommodation at the Tref Hotel Rheingold, a first class hotel offering it's guests international charm and character.
		Worldwide Ticketing will offer additional tours out of Bayreuth during your stay there or, you may wish to extend your stay in Europe at the conclusion of the basic tour and we will be pleased to create an individual itinerary to meet your personal requirements.
		In order to secure excellent opera seats on the tour to the Bayreuth Festival 2005, it is imperative to place orders at the earliest possible date.
	www.worldwideticketing.com /BAYREUTH.htm (410 words)

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