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Wagner 200: The Invisible Theatre

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An audience outside the Bayreuth Festival Theatre c.1930 (photo by Henry Miller/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wagner 200: The Invisible Theatre

  • Wahnfried, Wagner's home in Bayreuth where he and Cosima are buried
  • Richard Wagner
  • The Bayreuth Festival Theatre
  • The Bayreuth Festival Theatre (photo by Dr Gunther Hollander/Getty Images)
  • The Bayreuth Festival Theatre
  • The Bayreuth Festival Theatre
  • An audience outside the Bayreuth Festival Theatre c.1930 (photo by Henry Miller/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Richard Wagner and his son Siegfried in a 19th-century colour print of the theatre
  • Brass players performing the traditional motivic fanfare which hail the end of each interval at the Bayreuth Festival Theatre
  • Producer Clive Portbury recording the traditional brass fanfare that hails the end of each opera interval
  • Bust of Wagner in the Festspielpark by Hitler's favourite sculptor, Arno Breker
  • 'Silenced Voices', an exhibition honouring Jewish musicians involved in the Bayreuth Festival
  • Coloured Wagner 'gnomes' scattered across the Grüner Hügel at Bayreuth
  • Presenter Tom Service enjoys a brief rest

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