Bayreuthn.
/bʌɪˈrɔɪt/, /ˈbʌɪrɔɪt/, U.S. /ˌbaɪˈrɔɪt/, /ˈbaɪˌrɔɪt/ Applied attributively to festivals of the music of Richard Wagner held in Bayreuth since 1876 in a theatre specially built for the production of his operas. Also elliptical.
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1876 All Year Round 23 Sept. 39/2 The Bayreuth Performances. There has probably never been an event in..the history of music which has caused so much excitement as the recent first performances, at Bayreuth,..of Richard Wagner's..‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’.
1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 101 Singers of Bayreuth music-dramas.
1889 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 151 As to the peculiar merits of the Bayreuth mode of performance, they are simply the direct results of scrupulous reverence for Wagner.
1959 Listener 29 Jan. 216/1 The error, common in the past, against which Bayreuth now ensures the spectator is that of believing that Wagner used Teutonic myth and medieval legend simply as a vehicle for crude theories of German nationalism.
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Bayˈreuther n. an inhabitant of Bayreuth.
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1876 Nation 7 Sept. 148/1 Dazzling spectacles, in an opera-house.., were not strange to the eyes of the Bayreuthers.
1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 14 Mar. 272/2 We could build it [sc. the Stage Festival Playhouse] for ourselves better and cheaper than the Bayreuthers built it for Wagner.
Bayˈreuthian adj. pertaining to or characteristic of Bayreuth.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [adjective] > specific performance
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1896 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 243 And this, if you please, is Bayreuthian fidelity to ‘The Meister’.
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