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[edit] Bayreuth Festival

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Article is complete with references (bibliography) and links to supporting data and information. The primary source for my contributions to the article was the book by Prof. Spotts of Harvard University. The aticle features an event that has played an important role in western culture. Dtaw2001 16:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

This article has not yet been peer reviewed. I have thus created a request, Peer_review/Bayreuth_Festival. This nomination should perhaps be considered static until the peer review is completed. Dottore So 17:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Question: Do articles now have to be peer reviewed before coming here - If so since when? Giano | talk 17:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
  • What was the purpose of the books included in the bibliography section (now renamed to references)? Where they used to write the article (in that case they should be called references) or are they just "recommended reading material"? A bibliography is most commonly a list of books written by an article subject as in "the bibliography of Shakespear includes Romeo and Juliet". To avoid any ambiguity on what the word means, it's best to name it differently if the books were not written by the festival, which is clearly the case. Also, how can a festival have a discography? Doesn't that belong to some orchestra who played there? - Mgm|(talk) 18:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes, you are right, they are references. As for the discography, the festival has its own orchestra, and these are the more significant recordings from the festival. Dtaw2001 21:55, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I think more is needed on the early history of the festival. The following should be addressed:
(1) Why did Wagner feel he needed a special festival to showcase his own works?
(2) How was the Festival conceived, planned, and the money raised?
(3) What were the particulars behind the selection of Bayreuth?
(4) Possibly a note about the designer of the Festspielhaus (Gottfried Semper) & how he arrived at his designs.
(5) Some point should be made about how unusual a Festival devoted a to a sole composer was for the time. (Still is, really.)
  • Additionally, the period between 1890 and 1920 should be fleshed out a little bit. Perhaps some mention of
the role of figures such as Strauss;
the influence of the Festival's performances of Wagner operas elsewhere (e.g. New York);
the transition after Wagner's death. Dottore So 10:04, 14 November 2005 (UTC)


Feel free to make the additions you suggest, although the note about the designer of the Festspielhaus (Gottfried Semper) properly belongs to the Festspielhaus article. Perhaps the influence on operas elsewhere may be too much also. The rewrite of the introduction looks good. Dtaw2001 12:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC)


Unfortunately I don't know the answers to most of these, otherwise I would have gone ahead and added it in. If no one can provide expertise, sobeit. But on thinking aboutit, I believe the origins of the Festival really should be covered. As for Gottfried Semper, I am in the middle of translating the German entry on him into English, so that should cover it. As you say it more properly belongs on the Festspielhaus page anyway. Dottore So 16:11, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Object: What is written is interesting and good. However, the page seems to me to be incomplete, there is far too little about various performances and who sang them. In fact there is very little about opera at all. Is the festival a show case for new interpretation etc? What keeps the festival fresh each year to attract the crowds. Does it continue to make a profit, if so how much. Why can't the director be forcibly removed. To little at the moment, but it has great potential. Giano | talk 18:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)