Rosemarie Fruehauf

BAYREUTH, Germany—Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock guided his performers to a fresh interpretation of “Tannhauser,” but Director Sebastian Baumgarten delivered us a visual production that was raw, if not nearly rotten.

Sandro Botticelli’s painting,‘Pallas and the Centaur’ depicts a strong woman restraining a centaur. This painting is an image of female virtue besting the more primal side of human nature.

Painter Johann Overbeck’s painting,'Italia and Germania” is a peaceful scene of opposites coexisting.

The Chinese calendar is also known as the Yin or Xia calendar, the Moon Calendar.

Four-time line dance champion Enrico Adler says, “Line dance is for everybody.”

This is the last month to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Pressure on GDR leaders reached its utmost extent in Nov. 1989, yet downfall of the wall itself came as a surprise

Thousands of Berliners lined up on Oct. 17 as the Neues Museum reopened after 70 years.

Reveling the work of a Hermann Kaulbach sketch.

Usually Bayreuth is a just a town in Northern Bavaria—normal life and people. Then the Wagner Festival starts