After the enormous risk of its beginning, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany was for a long time a place where the stagings of Richard Wagner’s operas were encased in amber.

A precedence-shattering concert: an Israeli orchestra playing the music of Wagner — a notoriously anti-Semitic composer — at Germany's Bayreuth Festival, once one of Hitler's favorite ...

Trail-blazing conductor Simone Young is set to be the first Australian and first woman to conduct Wagner's epic 15-hour Ring Cycle at its home in Bayreuth, Germany.