Bayreuth is a town in southern Germany. People around the world know the name because of a regular music festival there for the operas of Richard Wagner. Fans come, often in careful clothes, to hear those long music-dramas in a theatre built for them. The town is ordinary for most of the year; the festival is what made the name famous in English. You will meet Bayreuth in talk about classical music, not as a huge capital like Munich or Berlin. Though actually the town sits inside Bavaria, in a part many locals call Franconia first — so music books and maps are talking about a smaller place inside that southern German world, not a second Germany.