Concerts and Operas

Daniele Gatti

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth 2025)

Bychkov, Arnarsson

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth 2024)

Scheib, Heras-Casado

Wagner: Parsifal (Bayreuth 2023)

Cornelius Meister

The Schwarz Ring: Die Walküre (Bayreuth 2022)

The Schwarz Ring: Das Rheingold (Bayreuth 2022)

Kratzer, Gergiev

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Bayreuth 2019)

The Schwarz Ring: Siegfried (Bayreuth 2022)

Nelsons, Neuenfels

Wagner: Lohengrin (Bayreuth 2011)

Dorst, Thielemann

Wagner: Die Walküre (Bayreuth 2010)

Marthaler, Schneider

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth 2009)

Katharina Wagner, Weigle

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth 2008)

The Schwarz Ring: Götterdämmerung (Bayreuth 2022)

Marek Janowski

The Castorf Ring: Das Rheingold (Bayreuth 2016)

The Castorf Ring: Die Walküre (Bayreuth 2016)

The Castorf Ring: Siegfried (Bayreuth 2016)

The Castorf Ring: Götterdämmerung (Bayreuth 2016)

Tcherniakov, Lyniv

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Bayreuth 2021)

Bayreuth Festival, 2020

Thielemann conducts Wagner's Siegfried Idyll – from Haus Wahnfried 

Sharon, Thielemann

Wagner: Lohengrin (Bayreuth 2018)

Kosky, Jordan

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth 2017)

Live

Laufenberg, Haenchen

Wagner: Parsifal (Bayreuth 2016)

Katharina Wagner

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth 2015)

Kirchner, Levine

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Bayreuth 1997)

Müller, Barenboim

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth 1995)

Concerts

Operas

Albums

Wagner: Parsifal (Live)

Wagner at Wahnfried (Live at Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth / 2020)

Wagner: Lohengrin

Wagner: Parsifal

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wagner: Die Walküre

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 (Live)

Wagner: Tannhäuser

Documentaries

Bayreuth, 1980

The Making of the Centenary Ring – Pierre Boulez & Patrice Chéreau

Boulez, Chéreau et al.

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen: An Introduction

Interviews

Bayreuth 2023

Pablo Heras-Casado on Wagner's Parsifal

Andreas Schager on Wagner's Parsifal

Elīna Garanča on Wagner's Parsifal

Jay Scheib on Wagner's Parsifal

Barrie Kosky talks about Bayreuth's Meistersinger from 2017

Marek Janowski talks about Castorf's Ring Cycle from Bayreuth

Philippe Jordan talks about Bayreuth's Meistersinger from 2017

Michael Volle talks about Bayreuth's Meistersinger from 2017

Georg Zeppenfeld talks about Bayreuth's Parsifal from 2016

Short Videos

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## The Bayreuth Festival

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