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,
George Town Festival George Town Festival The George Town Festival is an annual cultural festival held within the city of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. The month-long art festival takes place every August throughout the city. Inaugurated in 2010, the festival was initially mooted to celebrate the inscription of George Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has since grown into a ""major Asian arts event"", attracting about 250,000 visitors in 2015. In 2009, George Town World Heritage Incorporated, a state agency tasked with monitoring and promoting the city's heritage, had held a day-long festival to mark the inscription of the historical