The Wagner festival still takes place every year there.
Seattle's Wagner festival has continued to the present day, albeit no longer quite such an ambitious annual event.
Three years later, he spoke excitedly of moving to Minnesota, there to found a Wagner festival.
The last Wagner Festival was held in 1942.
In 1884 she sponsored New York City's first Wagner festival.
At Bayreuth, the setting for the annual Wagner festival now under way, that bonding process is no accident.
He has conducted at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for two decades and led more evenings of opera there than any other living conductor.
Last year's unstaged Wagner festival was another concept, and it developed enough momentum to generate the Rachmaninoff sequel.
The Wagner festival will undoubtedly undergo substantial changes as the next generation of Wagners takes charge, but I would not wish it to change too much.