Grand Tour - Bayreuth Off-Stage | Arts.21

For one month a year, tranquil Bayreuth puts on its finest raiment. The eighth edition of our Grand Tour takes us to Bayreuth but away from the main Festival House.Our reporter watches the frenzied struggle for a ticket, hears the Minstrels' Contest (cut down to an hour), drinks a Wagner-themed tea called Dragon's Blood, and then recuperates in the Lohengrin Thermal Bath .