Ottawa, Canada
(10:57) I used some background knowledge to issue the following query to
AltaVista:
wagner ring nibelungen +bayreuth gotterdammerung siegfried walkure
domain:de
Based on the results, I append the query with: +festspiele -gymnasium
These results are too much about the music and notably about recordings
from previous festival performances.
Decide to issue a whole new query to Alta Vista (11:05): bayreuth
festspiele karten
Link 5 gives a page on domain www.festspiele.de
(11:08) go to their homepage, link
http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/tickets/index.html gives overview of the
program.
Das Rheingold: check. Die Walküre: check. Siegfried: check. Die
Gotterdammerung: check. The whole ring's there.
Order on the following address: BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE, Kartenbüro,
Postfach 100262, D-95402 Bayreuth, tel. 0921/78780.
(11:15): case closed.
Place: Dublin, Ireland
Date: June 11th 1998
Time: 3:00pm (local time)
Started search using Fusion
Query: Ring Cycle performance bayreuth germany summer 1998
Clicked on #10 "World Music Calendar"
http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/music.html
Richard Wagner Festival July 25 - August 28, 1998. James Levine
conducts the four operas of "The Ring Cycle": "Das Rheingold,"
"Die Walküre," "Siegfried" and "Die Götterdämmerung,".
Tickets: $11 to $175. Box office: Bayreuther Festspiele, Postfach
10 02 62, D-95402 Bayreuth, Germany. For tickets and other information
call 2-02-21 in Bayreuth or write: Wagner Festspiele, Postfach 10 02 62,
D-95402 Bayreuth, Germany.
Place: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: 12. June 1998
Time: 2:30PM (local time)
searched through yahoo for ring cycle and bayreuth, germany
clicked on bayreuth online for information however this is in
german. gave up
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
8 hours for 10 queries over 2 afternoons
o Submit Altavista the query: +Ring +Cycle +Bayreuth +Germany
o The first link
(http://www.the-european.com/Cities/Germany/GermanyCities/Bayreuth/Bayreuth.html)
explains that Wagner build here an opera house to stage his vast
four opera Ring cycle.
o Go back to the Altavista search results, add the term "+opera" and
search again.
o Link 4 points to the world music calendar
(http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/music.html).
o Find Bayreuth in the page. This page has all the information
required. The festival would take place between July 25th and
August 28th, 1998. The address and phone of the box office, as
well as the price of the tickets, are there.
Tokyo, Japan
June 12nd, 1998 Local time
By default, search on Altavista
1:45 pm
Query : bayreuth germany order ticket "ring cycle"
clicked on 1:
1. Information for visitors to Bayreuth
in Germany,
home of Wagner
[URL:www.the-european.com/Cities/Germany/GermanyCities/Bayreuth/B]
Music & Nightlife
Result : Tickets for the annual Wagner Festival, held from late July
to the end of August, are sold out years in advance, but ask the
Festspielhaus box office for returns (Postfach 10
02 62, D-95402
Bayreuth; tel: +49 921 20221, Mon-Fri 11-12am).
Using a custom front-end tool AltaGCL
Waterloo, 15 June 17:15
altagcl "Ring Cycle" and "Bayreuth" and "ticket*" ... learned a lot about
Ring Circle but no sure answer ... too many tours
altagcl "Ring Cycle" and "Bayreuth" and "tickets" ... much reading ... Bingo!
http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/music.html
Total time: 10 minutes
Waterloo, Canada
Using a custom front-end tool AltaGCL
June 16, 00:35am
query: "ring cycle" and "bayreuth" and "tickets"
This query gives lots of general information about Wagner's work
and the history of the Bayreuth version but wasn't specific enough
query: "ring cycle" and "bayreuth" and "reservations"
URL : http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/music.html
Bayreuth, Germany
Richard Wagner Festival July 25 - August 28, 1998.
[...] Tickets: $11 to $175. Box office:
Bayreuther Festspiele, Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402 Bayreuth, Germany.
For ticket and other information call 2-02-21 in Bayreuth or write:
Wagner Festspiele, Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402 Bayreuth, Germany.
time: 5 minutes
Using Fusion2 - a metasearch engine with marking of relevant documents
and query expansion.
Place: Dublin - home internet connection
Date: 14 June, evening
initial search for "ring cycle" bayreuth
40 URLs retrieved in first search
Initial URL examined at rank=6 "Rotatact Club Bayreuth - 1880"
- text in German - no useful info
Next URL at rank = 8 "MET Opera News"
- gives details of Metropolitan Opera casting for 1997 ... now I know
ring cycle is an opera !
Examine URL titles to rank 25 and then load "Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival"
to find it is an AMAZON.COM book !
- mark this as relevant nonetheless
Scroll to rank position 32
- home page for University of Bayreuth but it is all-German
Return to URL at rank = 29 "City Information, accommodation, bookings ..."
which is www.driveeurope.com page on the city with but no specific info
on the festival or useful-looking links
Click "expand search" button to get list of candidate search terms and
with 3 URLs marked as relevant and from the list of candidate search terms offered
I add "opera wagner music performance" and manually add the term "ticket"
Re-submit search ... 24 URLs retrieved
Click on URL at rank=3 www.operaworld.com/operas/ringcy.htm but
this lists recordings of the opera, not performances
Click on URL at rank=2 "World Music Calendar - Traveler's Guide to the World's ..."
This is a huge text page so I do a "Find" for Bayreuth and BINGO.
Festival is on July25-Aug 28, tickets are $11 tp $175 and there is
an address and telephone number for the box office.
Total time taken for search: 11 minutes.
At a university in Glasgow, Scotland
search ring cycle performance with yahoo, found:
http://www.the-european.com/Cities/Germany/GermanyCities/Bayreuth/music.html
with info on where to book for the Wagner Festival:
Tickets for the annual Wagner Festival, held from late July to the end of
August, are sold out years in advance, but ask the Festspielhaus box
office for returns (Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402 Bayreuth; tel: +49 921
20221, Mon-Fri 11-12am).
We extracted two more queries: "Wagner Festival" and "Festspielhau"
search Wagner Festival
found program in German (!) in http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.html,
our German expert recognised the Ring Cycle:
Montag, 27. Juli: Rheingold I
Dienstag, 28. Juli: Walküre I
Donnerstag, 30. Juli: Siegfried I
Samstag, 1. August: Götterdämmerung I
Donnerstag, 6. August: Rheingold II
Freitag, 7. August: Walküre II
Sonntag, 9. August: Siegfried II
Dienstag, 11. August: Göttderdämmerung II
Samstag, 22. August: Rheingold III
Sonntag, 23. August: Walküre III
Dienstag, 25. August: Sigefreid III
Donnerstag, 27. August: Götterdämmerung III
Freitag, 28. August: Meistersinger VI
Now how are we going to book? One of us knew it was veru difficult to find
tickets and people had to wait years ....
search Festspielhaus with Yahoo
found http://operabase.com/level1/wdba.html
with link to performances and under Bayreuth link to:
http://operabase.com/mkhouse.cgi?id=none&lang=en&house=wdba&list=f where we
found the address and modalities for booking
Answer: The Ring Cycle is going to be performed at Bayreuth, Germany, this
summer and the details for bookings are as follow:
Address: Bayreuth Festspielhaus,
D8580 Bayreuth,
GERMANY
Administration: Bayreuther Festspiele
Postfach 100262
D95402 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (921) 78 78 0
Season runs: Jul-Aug
Capacity: 1925 seats
BOOKING: PERSONAL CALLERS, POSTAL, PHONE
Address: As Above
Phone: +49 921 202 21
Credit cards: None
Disabled access: Wheelchair space (2)
Australia
Using a query re-formulation tool, the Hyperindex Browser (HiB)
HiB + AltaVista
o entered "bayreuth" as query and received numerous possible
query refinements
o selected "bayreuth festival" which produced the refinement
"bayreuth opera festival" which seemed very relevant (I have
the general knowledge that the Ring Cycle is a series of
Wagnerian operas)
o beamed down using the refinement "bayreuth opera festival"
The fifth document titled "Festivals" had "Wagner"
in the associated abstract - so followed the link to the actual
document
http://www4.worldmedia.fr/festivals/eng/data/0138.html
The title of this document is "Bayreuth Festival : Richard
Wagner"
and seems to have the answer: yes the Ring Cycle will be played
but a document linked to it says (in German) that its sold out
(as usual)
Place : Nacsis. Tokyo Japan
Date : June 18, 1998
Time : 4:30PM (Japan Time)
Started search on Netscape Navigator
Query :"Bayreuth Germany"
Clicked on #10 "Bayreuth travel & Turist
Clicked "Bayreuth online"
But I can't read German. Back
Clicked "Byerischer Hof"
Clicked "Festival"
Clicked "Program"
Clicked "How to get tickets"
Finish Time : 5:00PM
At a university in Toronto, Canada
Metacrawler query: Ring Cycle Bayreuth Schedule
Nothing appears to be appropriate.
Altavista query: "Ring Cycle" and "Bayreuth"
Clicking on #2: 2. Accomodations, hotels, bargain trips, Germany,..."
(www.driveeurope.com/dejava/a6_60.htm)
Bayreuth ... The Richard Wagner Festspielhaus (Festival Theatre)
was built between 1872 and 1876 on the hill northeast of the town,
now called Festspielhgel (Festival Hill). King Ludwig II, the "Mad
King" of Bavaria and an ardent admirer of Wagner, supported his
work, and the Festspielhaus was opened with four operas of the
performances of Ring Cycle. The Festival Theatre and the ornate
Opera House are open to visitors when no performance or rehearsals
are in progress.
Altavista query: "Richard Wagner Festspielhaus"
Clicking on #1: "Accomodations, hotels, bargain trips, bookings,..."
(www.driveeurope.com/aa6_22.htm)
Nothing new.
Altavista query: "Wagner Festival Theatre"
One result. Broken URL.
Guessing URL www.bayreuth.de
German-language site. Quickly explored site. No obvious
"Festspielhaus" links.
Altavista query: +Bayreuth +Festspielhaus
Clicking on #1: Bayreuth Festspielhaus
(operabase.com/level1/wdba.html)
Site contains schedules for 1996 and 1997, and information for ordering
tickets, but no schedule for 1998. "Gotterdammerung" wasn't performed
in 1996. Best to phone +49 (921) 78 78 0 for the latest information.
At another university in Glasgow, Scotland
Is the Ring Cycle going to be performed at Bayreuth, Germany, this summer
and how do I order tickets?
Entered AltaVista search: +Bayreuth ring circle
After page 2 revised query: +Bayreuth, +Ring, Circle
Tried 5: Information about the 1998 Bayreuth Wagner festival, from your
Mining Company Opera Guide --
http://opera.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa042898.htm
While waiting for Opera site... Tried 11:
http://kastor.tmt.de/bayreuth-info/imnotfall/apotheken97.html but page not
found, so tried http://kastor.tmt.de/bayreuth-info/ then
http://kastor.tmt.de/ which worked but the English version didn't
Opera site finally loaded and gave an applet error but it did load enough
to follow a link to "some good sites on the Ring" -
http://opera.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa042898.htm
Not very helpful but at least confirms its Wagner's Ring.
So back to Opera home page...
Booking information from
http://opera.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa042898.htm gives the phone
number +49 921 20221.
Browsed around and found info at
http://opera.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa042898.htm (info on Hotel
Bayerischer) which makes getting tickets look rather iffy - maybe the above
number is only for returned tickets.
The route to getting tickets appears to be
" Write to the "Kartenbero der Bayreuther Festspiele, Postfach 100262,
D-95402 Bayreuth" and ask for the performance schedule as well as the
order form. These will be send to you in September. Order the tickets
you desire and do not forget to indicate alternate dates. Watch for
this
date: "Beginn des Kartenvorverkaufs" (=beginning of the ticket sale).
Your order must be received by the ticket office on this day at the
latest. Around January/February of the following year you will usually
receive a positive or a negative answer to your request. The ticket
confirmations are mailed first. The following September you will
automatically receive the order form. You should continue to order in
any case! If you miss one you will be deleted from the computer and
the
whole process starts again without credit for former waiting period. "
!!!
SO Yes it does take place and tickets look as easy to get as Scotland
tickets for the opening game of the World Cup in Paris.
NB: On proof checking I noticed that the first query uses circle and not
cycle - wrong but I still got there....
Elsewhere in Ottawa, Canada, using AltaVista ...
ANSWER: Yes the ring cycle will be performed several times
The first is July 27, 28, 30, and Aug 1
(Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402
Bayreuth; tel: +49 921 20221, Mon-Fri 11-12am)
Queries: 2
Links: 8
Time: 15 minutes
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Query: "ring cycle" Bayreuth Germany summer 1998 tickets
strategy: rare words and phrases
translate "this summer"
Followed: First link modified in 1998, skipping one that was from 1997
http://www.wagnersocietyny.com/wagnrlnks.html
-> http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.html (In German)
Unfamiliar with the names of the parts of the ring cycle
so will use other web pages to figure it out. Here are
the possibilities
Schedule for the Bayreuth 1998 festspiele
Samstag, 25. Juli: Holländer I
Sonntag, 26. Juli: Meistersinger I
Montag, 27. Juli: Rheingold I
Dienstag, 28. Juli: Walküre I
Mittwoch, 29. Juli: spielfrei
Donnerstag, 30. Juli: Siegfried I
Freitag, 31. Juli: spielfrei
Samstag, 1. August: Götterdämmerung I
Sonntag, 2. August: Parsifal I
Montag, 3. August: Holländer II
Dienstg, 4. August: Meistersinger II
Mittwoch, 5. August: Parsifal II
Donnerstag, 6. August: Rheingold II
Freitag, 7. August: Walküre II
Samstag, 8. August: geschlossene Vorstellung/Holländer
Sonntag, 9. August: Siegfried II
Montag, 10. August: spielfrei
Dienstag, 11. August: Göttderdämmerung II
Mittwoch, 12. August: Meistersinger III
Donnerstag, 13. August: Holländer IV
Freitag, 14. August: Parsifal III
Samstag, 15. August: geschlossene Vorstellung
Sonntag, 16. August:: Meistersinger IV
Montag, 17. August: Parsifal IV
Dienstag, 18. August: Holländer V
Mittwoch, 19. August: Meistersinger V
Donnerstag, 20. August: Parsifal V
Freitag, 21. August: Holländer VI
Samstag, 22. August: Rheingold III
Sonntag, 23. August: Walküre III
Montag, 24. August: spielfrei
Dienstag, 25. August: Sigefreid III
Mittwoch, 26. August: spielfrei
Donnerstag, 27. August: Götterdämmerung III
Freitag, 28. August: Meistersinger VI
Back out to the page:
http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.html
follow two frame links 1997 festspiele, Gotterdammerung
Gotterdammerung is also known as: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Query: "ring cycle" Wagner Gotterdammerung
To verify what ring cycle means
Followed: http://www.operaworld.com/operas/ringcy.htm
Found:
"Wagner's epic four-opera drama based on German myth is opera at its grandest.
See individual operas for plot summaries: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre,
Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung"
No information on tickets.
Backed out of all links back to the results of the first query.
Scanned the top 10 hits and one said "contact numbers"
Followed: http://www.the-european.com/Cities/Germany/GermanyCities/Bayreuth/music.html
"Tickets for the annual Wagner Festival, held from late July to
the end of August, are sold out years in advance, but ask the
Festspielhaus box office for returns (Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402
Bayreuth; tel: +49 921 20221, Mon-Fri 11-12am)."
France
Metacrawler: Ring Cycle Bayreuth
--> 25 results
--> 5th: Reservation Info
http://www.bayerischer-hof.com/Festival/reservE.htm
Information concerning hotel reservations for the festival. This page
also indicates that the Ring Cycle IS PERFORMED during the festival.
At the top of the page is a link "Tickets",
http://www.bayerischer-hof.com/Festival/ticketsE.htm
This page gives detailed instructions how to order tickets by
snail-mail.
(5 minutes)
Saarbrucken, Germany
22 June 1998, 19:20-21:20 p.m.
Metacrawler (find all words): Ring Bayreuth Karten
- return a lot of pages on www.festspiele.de
- I open www.festspiele.de
- follow the link http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.htm (Festspiele 98)
- follow the link http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.html
(Karten, Preise, Tips)
it contains the address for ordering tickets:
BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE
Kartenbüro
Postfach 100262
D-95402 Bayreuth
- back up and follow the link http://www.festspiele.de/tmt/index.html
(Spielplan)
I'm not sure whether the performances listed constitute the "Ring Cycle"
Altavista: "Ring der Nibelungen"
- 7th result: http://www-eleves.int-evry.fr/~zirphile/musique/wagner.htm
(Wagner)
- follow the link to
http://www-eleves.int-evry.fr/~zirphile/musique/nibelung.htm (Le Ring)
does not contain the required info
- back up to AltaVista; the first 40 results don't look promising
Altavista: host:festspiele.de Ring
- first 10 results don't mention 1998
Altavista: host:festspiele.de Ring 1998
- first result http://www.festspiele.de/1996/ring.html (404 file not found)
- first 30 results not too promising
- backup to www.festspiele.de
- follow the link "1996"
- follow the link "Der Ring der Nibelungen"
- follow the link 'Rezension: Günter Neuholds Karlsruher "Ring"'
it does not contain a listing of the elements of the Ring Cycle
- I conclude that the Ring Clycle is not being performed in 1998 in
its entirety since it is not explicitly mentioned on the festspiel.de
pages.
