(1) Insets include Frederichs as Alberich (top left); Burgstaller as Siegfried (top center); Breuer as Mime (top right); Perron as Wotan (lower left). Circa 1899.
(2) Insets include Wagner (top); Ernst Krauss (2nd row left); Burgstaller with bear (2nd row center); Schmedes (2nd row right); ?? (3rd row left); Bertram as Wotan (3rd row center); Wittich as Sieglinde (3rd row right); ?? (lower left); Wagner with extended family (Liszt at piano) (lower center); ?? as Alberich (lower right). Circa 1901.
(3) Insets include Gulbranson as Brunnhilde (top left); Ernst Krauss (top center); Wittich (top right); Lower figures unidentified.
(4) Insets include Unger as Siegfried (top left); Materna as Brunnhilde (top center); Betz as Wotan (top right); Conductors Fischer, Seidl, Mottl and Richter in the center left; Vogl as Loge (lower left). Postmarked 1897.
(5) Insets included at the bottom: Schumann-Heink, Rooy, Burgstaller and Bertram. Scene from the Flying Dutchman at the top. Published in 1901.
(6) Unidentified performers, circa late 1890s.
(7) Souvenir de Bayreuth, Parsifal, 1899. Singers on the lower row: Van Dyck and Wiegand; Materna and Van Dyck; van Dyck.
(8) Orchester - Leitung der BuhnenFestSpiele, 1914: Michael Balling, Karl Muck, and Siegfried Wagner on the bottom.
(9) Postmarked 1901. Compare this postcard to the next one. Notice how they are identical except for the conductors in the upper right, who were appearing during those particular Festival years.
(10) Postmarked 1906.
(11) Orchester - Leitung der BuhnenFestSpiele 1906. Shows Felix Mottl, Hans Richter, Franz Beidler, Michael Balling, Siegfried Wagner and Karl Muck.
(12) Conductors in 1913: Hans v. Bulow, Hans Richter, Hermann Levi, Felix Mottl, Karl Klindworth, Karl Muck.
(13) From the 1934 Bayreuth Festival.
(14) From the 1931 Bayreuth Festival with Toscanini in the bottom center.
(15) Featuring mezzo-soprano Helene Hieser (1863 - 1937) who appeared at the Bayreuth Festivals in the 1890s.
(16) Composite postcard with, what seems to be, a scene from Meistersinger with Hans Sachs. Circa 1900.
(17) From 1901, featuring the Rheinmaidens in the center of the card. The character in the lower right is Fasolt, which is the same image you see on the lower right of postcard number 2. Other
elements are repeated in other cards as well.
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Composite postcards are cards that consist of multiple
images. They also go by the name of "multi-view" postcards, which are
usually associated with scenic and/or town views. Last update: 27 May 2010