In the intermission, the French flirt, the Germans drink beer and the English read the libretto

A history of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Part 1

Author : Jos Hermans

This 11-part article series dedicated to Bayreuth is based on "Bayreuth - A History of the Wagner Festival" by Frederic Spotts, a researcher at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, a book that appeared in 1994 and in which Spotts, with a lucid, if possible objective view, tackles the histo…