Bayreuth Festival the world of opera. Other notable directors to have participated in "Werkstatt Bayreuth" included Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Sir Peter Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Götz Friedrich of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Harry Kupfer of the Berlin State Opera in the former communist East Germany and Heiner Müller of the Berliner Ensemble. In the end, Wolfgang's decision to bring in experimental directors helped rejuvenate Bayreuth and restore its reputation as the world leader in Wagnerian opera. There was uncertainty over how the Festival was to be managed after the retirement of Wolfgang Wagner at the end of August 2008. In 2001,
Medi Bayreuth by fellow German side Riesen Ludwigsburg. The club's regular home arena is the Oberfrankenhalle, which has a seating capacity of 4,000 people. Medi Bayreuth Medi Bayreuth, official stylized as medi bayreuth, is a German professional basketball club that is based in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded as "BBC Bayreuth" in 1999. The team plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the highest division of basketball in Germany. Since 2013, the company medi is the head and naming sponsor of the team. The club was founded as the basketball section of Post SV Bayreuth in 1975 and was one of the clubs