At 58, conductor Andrew Davis has only just got round to tackling Wagner. And where better to do it than the composer's own Bayreuth theatre?
At his own fireside Bayreuth, James Fenton wonders if he is a Ring-recidivist as he tackles Wagner
1876: The Bayreuth festival opened tonight with the prologue to Das Rheingold. The audience numbered over 1500, who had come, pilgrim-like, from all parts of the world
This year's Bayreuth festival had to contend with disappearing singers and booing audiences. Erica Jeal reports
The descendants of Germany's most controversial composer are battling for control of his Bayreuth festival. The result may change it for ever, says Martin Kettle
Tom Service is blown away by Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Bayreuth opera festival
Bayreuth's latest take on the Ring fills Tom Service with wonder and despair.