Bayreuth Festival marks 150 years with reckoning on Wagner's Nazi ties, antisemitism

Jewish artists who worked at Bayreuth were murdered or oppressed under the Nazi regime; the festival's historical role as a Nazi cultural showcase is acknowledged.

At the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, the hall where Richard Wagner's vision was first realized became the site of a different kind of performance — one of institutional conscience. For the first time in its history, the festival openly named its entanglement with Nazi ideology and honored the Jewish artists it once helped erase, as descendants, chancellors, and survivors gathered to ask what it means to inherit a tradition that contains both transcendence and atrocity. The occasion was not a celebration of continuity but a confrontation with it — a reminder that remembrance, to b

Bayreuth Festival marks 150 years with reckoning on Wagner's Nazi ties, antisemitism

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