100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival (1976, complete program). Under the title “Artwork of the Future – Today: 100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival,” 3sat broadcast a one-hour television documentary in 1976, featuring, among other things, Bernd Weikl as Amfortas in Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal.”
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Bayreuth 50s, 70s, 80s…
Short fragments of long operas by Richard Wagner
Wagner – Tony Palmer Films
This epic film – described by Richard Hornak in Opera News as “one of the most beautiful motion pictures in history” – was originally made during 1982/3 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wagner’s death. It was always intended as one single film, not a ‘Television Mini-Series’, as it is so often (and mistakenly) described.… Continue reading Wagner – Tony Palmer Films