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
Two Thousand Trees Festival Two Thousand Trees Festival The 2000trees festival is an independent music festival, held for one weekend every July at Upcote Farm, Withington, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. It offers a diverse selection of more than 80 acts on four stages, plus comedy, trader village, and outdoor headphone disco. It also won the Grass Roots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards 2010. 2000trees was started by six friends in 2007. The festival has performances across a number of stages which have evolved over the years, including: Main Stage, The Cave (second stage), The Axiom (formerly The Leaf Lounge), The Croft (formerly