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Wagner opens the Bayreuth Festival with the Ring

1876 CE · Germany, Europe · Culture

Wagner opens the Bayreuth Festival with the Ring
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The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.

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