Bayreuth the finest Baroque theatres in Europe. It is both a museum and the oldest working "tableau" in Bayreuth. The Festival Hall dates to the 19th century and is now used solely for the Bayreuth Festival. Only works by Richard Wagner are put on. The Bayreuth Town House ("Stadthaus"), likewise, does not have its own ensemble. It is regularly used by the "Theater Hof" as well as the "Tourneetheater". The only two theatres with their own ensemble are the "Studiobühne Bayreuth" and amateur dramatic society, "Brandenburg Kulturstadl". The venues of the studio theatre in Bayreuth are the domicile of the theatre
Bayreuth Festival the festival into an opportunity for directors to experiment with new methods for presenting the operas. The change came out of necessity, as it was impossible for Wolfgang to both administer and direct the festival. It also provided an opportunity for Bayreuth to renew itself with each production, rather than continue to present the same operas in the same way, year after year. Ingmar Bergman, who famously made a film version in Swedish of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", turned down an invitation to direct the festival. The most sensational production in "Werkstatt Bayreuth" was the Centennial Ring Cycle under the direction