Bayreuth Festival Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival () is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle "" and "Parsifal". Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the theatre, which contained many architectural innovations to accommodate the huge orchestras for which Wagner wrote as well as the composer's particular vision about the staging of his
Roskilde Festival 2007 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 "Cosmopol". On 4 June 2007 the festival's website announced that the festival was sold out. 2007 was the wettest year in the history of the festival with almost of rain falling, which meant that large lakes formed in the camping and festival areas. This is also more than double the amount of rain that fell during the festival in 1997, the year which was previously the worst in