Bayreuth Festival - Bayreuth Festival (English: Bayreuth Festival)

Japanese: バイロイト音楽祭 - ばいろいとおんがくさい(英語表記)Bayreuther Festspiele
Bayreuth Festival - Bayreuth Festival (English: Bayreuth Festival)

This music festival was founded in 1876 by German composer R. Wagner to stage his own music dramas. It is held every year from the end of July to the end of August at the Festival Theater in Bayreuth, Germany, which was built with the support of King Ludwig II. The theater's interior is made of wood, and the orchestra is half-submerged under the stage, which is said to have the best acoustics for his music dramas, attracting Wagner fans from all over the world. The festival brings together the best Wagner singers and conductors of the time, and is also a place for new experiments in staging. After Wagner's death, his descendants, including his wife Cosima, were deeply involved in running the festival, and especially after World War II, his grandson Wieland Wagner (1917-1966) pioneered an era in symbolic new staging.

[Yoshio Miyama]

"Music Gallery 5/17: Bayreuth Festival I & II" (1984, 1987, Ongaku No Tomosha)"100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival" by G. Skelton, translated by Toshimitsu Yamazaki (1976, Ongaku No Tomosha)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ドイツの作曲家R・ワーグナーが、自作の楽劇を上演するために1876年に創設した音楽祭。ルートウィヒ2世の援助により建設されたドイツのバイロイトの祝祭劇場で、毎年7月末から8月末まで催される。劇場の内装は木で、オーケストラは舞台の下になかば沈む形のため、彼の楽劇上演にもっとも適した音響をもつとされ、全世界のワーグナー愛好家が集まる。音楽祭は、その時代の最良のワーグナー歌手や指揮者を集めて行われ、演出面でも新しい実験の場となる。ワーグナーの死後も妻コジマをはじめ子孫が運営に深くかかわり、とくに第二次世界大戦後は、孫のウィーラント・ワーグナー(1917―1966)が象徴的な新演出の面でも一時代を画した。

[美山良夫]

『『ミュージック・ギャラリー5・17 バイロイト音楽祭Ⅰ・Ⅱ』(1984、1987・音楽之友社)』『G・スケルトン著、山崎敏光訳『バイロイト音楽祭の100年』(1976・音楽之友社)』

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