Richard Wagner the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Anton Bruckner, Camille Saint-Saëns and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Wagner was far from satisfied with the Festival; Cosima recorded that months later, his attitude towards the productions was "Never again, never again!" Moreover, the festival finished with a deficit of about 150,000 marks. The expenses of Bayreuth and of Wahnfried meant that Wagner still sought additional sources of income by conducting or taking on commissions such as the "Centennial March" for America, for which he received $5000. Following the first Bayreuth Festival, Wagner began work on "Parsifal", his final opera. The composition took four years,
Roskilde Festival 2007 terms of rain. Furthermore, half the entire amount of rain came on Thursday the 5th of July, a day which saw rain without stop from early morning till approximately midnight. The extreme weather meant that somewhere around 5000 people left the festival early while many more chose to leave the festival in the night and return to catch shows the following morning for the rest of the festival. Roskilde Festival 2007 Roskilde Festival 2007 was held 5 –8 July 2007 with warm-up and camping from 1 July. The stages "Metropol" and "Ballroom" were replaced by two new stages, "Astoria" and