For his Tetralogy, Richard Wagner had a theatre specially designed – the Bayreuth Festival Theatre – which offered performance conditions very similar to those of the cinema, long before the invention of the seventh art.

A genre that has continually drawn on the composer’s work and revealed the dramatic potential of his music.

With Laurent Guido, Professor of Film History, and Jacques Martineau, filmmaker

GOETHE-INSTITUT
17 Av. d'Iéna, 75016 Paris