Richard Wagner "Ring" as a work reflecting Christian ideals. Many of these later articles, including "What is German?" (1878, but based on a draft written in the 1860s), repeated Wagner's antisemitic preoccupations. Wagner completed "Parsifal" in January 1882, and a second Bayreuth Festival was held for the new opera, which premiered on 26 May. Wagner was by this time extremely ill, having suffered a series of increasingly severe angina attacks. During the sixteenth and final performance of "Parsifal" on 29 August, he entered the pit unseen during act 3, took the baton from conductor Hermann Levi, and led the performance to its
Mühlheim am Main Tuesday draw a great number of visitors each year from the whole region. In late July, the cultural club Artificial Family e. V. stages a popular music festival in the former quarries, the "Steinbruchfestival" (“Quarry Festival”). Also widely popular and well attended in the region is the kermis ("Kerb") in the outlying centre of Dietesheim, held each year on the weekend after 15 August. In the main centre of Mühlheim, the Old Town Festival ("Altstadtfest") and the Christmas Market ("Weihnachtsmarkt") are very popular, too. Every June the Schützengemeinschaft Mühlheim-Dietesheim (sport shooting club) stages its company and club cup tournament. Eligible