The 2021 festival marks a milestone: Oksana Lyniv became the first woman to conduct production in the 145-year history of the Bavarian opera festival. The Bayreuth Festival, at which operas by the 19th-century composer Richard Wagner are performed, kicked off in Germany. The annual festival has returned after a one-year break forced by the coronavirus pandemic. In this year's opening opera of #Bayreuth Festival, the audience's resounding applause was reserved ...