Parsifal premieres as a Bühnenweihfestspiel reserved to Bayreuth, a stage monopoly
On 26 July 1882 Parsifal premiered as a stage-consecration festival play reserved to Bayreuth. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.
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On 26 July 1882 Parsifal premiered as a stage-consecration festival play reserved to Bayreuth.
Context
A monopoly can protect a carefully staged work and can extract pilgrimage prices. Split later score-access.
Richard Wagner’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
26 July 1882 Parsifal opened with Wagner’s instruction that the consecrated stage piece remain Bayreuth’s exclusive. Copyright and family policy kept other houses out until the 1913 expiry (New York 1903 was a contested breach). Rent on a ‘sacred’ monopoly is the inequality path; the score is access elsewhere.
Why it matters
A sacred-stage monopoly is a cultural-rent inequality path.
1882 is not 1913 expiry.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Richard Wagner
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.55 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactParsifal premieres as a Bühnenweihfestspiel reserved to Bayreuth, a stage monopoly
- strengthensDriverIncome Inequality
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 26 July 1882 · verified
A sacred-stage monopoly is a cultural-rent inequality path.
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Bayreuth Festival — official siteBayreuther Festspiele · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Richard WagnerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Bayreuth official Parsifal history and Britannica independently date the 1882 premiere and the Bayreuth-only policy.
Established: 26 July 1882 Parsifal with Bayreuth reservation. Not established: that 1913 US law is this 1882 night.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorRichard Wagner
- contributed toFactParsifal premieres as a Bühnenweihfestspiel reserved to Bayreuth, a stage monopoly
- strengthensDriverIncome Inequality
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Factrail. (2026). Parsifal premieres as a Bühnenweihfestspiel reserved to Bayreuth, a stage monopoly. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wag-parsifal-monopoly
https://factrail.ai/facts/wag-parsifal-monopoly
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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