Down the stairs, behind the heavy door, there it glows, the Grail. Well, it’s not really that miraculous vessel that holds Christ’s blood that glows so mysteriously in the center of the dark room. It’s just Richard Wagner’s original manuscript of “Parsifal.” Of course, for this “just” some Wagnerians would be happy to give you a few slaps in the face of the ignorant. But anyone who has ever met the current director of the Richard Wagner Museum, Sven Friedrich, knows that a critical and more casual approach to the composer’s legacy has long been welcome at Villa Wahnfried, also and especially because his memory is cared for here .
The Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was Richard Wagner’s first own house – Bavaria
