Bayreuth 2026: Rienzi

Hermann Grampp
September 2026

The centerpiece of Bayreuth's 150th-anniversary season was the first performance ever of Richard Wagner's “youth work” Rienzi in the Festspielhaus. Rienzi has never belonged to the traditional ten-work Bayreuth canon, so staging Wagner's only grand opera on the Green Hill was a genuine experiment. Since 2026 marks 150 years since the first Bayreuth Festival of August 1876, the opening days carried extra[...]

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