Wieland Wagner: One Hundred Years

This year we celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the birth of Wieland Wagner (1917 - 1966), the composer's grandson who in 1951 revolutionized the staging of his grandfather's work when he reopened the Bayreuth Festival after World War II with an astonishing production of Parsifal. His simple, dark, expressionistic style became known as "New Bayreuth." It was a revolution in staging, and it was a forerunner of the experimentation that exists today.