Timeline Wednesday 26 July 1882

Events on Wednesday 26 July 1882 1

• 1882 Premiere of Wagner's Parsifal Richard Wagner's final opera opens at Bayreuth Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 26 July 1882, in a run of sixteen performances that Wagner personally supervised. It was his last completed work and the only one he wrote specifically for the Bayreuth stage. Wagner died less than eight months later.