Bayreuth Festival talented conductor Hermann Levi, who was personally chosen by Richard Wagner to conduct the debut of "Parsifal" in 1882 with the assistance of the young Engelbert Humperdinck. Following Wagner's death, his widow Cosima continued running the festival at one or, more frequently, two-year intervals. She gradually introduced the remaining operas which complete the Bayreuth canon of Wagner's last ten completed operas. Levi, the son of a rabbi, remained the festival's principal conductor for the next two decades. Felix Mottl, who was involved with the festival from 1876 to 1901, conducted "Tristan und Isolde" there in 1886. Until the 1920s, performances
FSV Bayreuth FSV Bayreuth The FSV Bayreuth is a German association football club from the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria. The club was formed in a merger of the football departments of 1. FC Bayreuth and BSV 98 Bayreuth in May 2003. BSV was the product an earlier merger between VfB Bayreuth and TuSpo Bayreuth. The club was formed on 14 May 2003, when the football departments of 1. FC and BSV 98 Bayreuth merged. The two original clubs still exist and as non-football clubs. The new club started out in the tier-eight Kreisliga Bayreuth in 2003–04, where it finished in mid-table. In