Bayreuth
- 6d ago
Michel Friedman calls for 'new Bayreuth' as festival confronts Nazi past with memorial for silenced voices
At the Bayreuth Festival's first official memorial for artists persecuted under the Nazis, Jewish publicist Michel Friedman delivered an hour-long speech calling for a 'new Bayreuth' and warning against a 'bored, decadent democracy.'
- Jun 18
Bayreuth scales back 150th anniversary festival program after €344,000 budget gap discovered
The city of Bayreuth has canceled its planned festival mile for the 150th Bayreuth Festival after a double-counting error left a €344,000 shortfall, but a scaled-back program with a concert and serenade may still go ahead.
