In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival will celebrate its 150th anniversary. This is the occasion for an extensive and interdisciplinary third-party funded project at the Karlsruhe University of Music, led by Prof. Dr. Stephan Mösch and supported by the Bareva Foundation (Vaduz) with 400,000 euros. The project is scheduled to run for five years. It operates at the interface of scientific and artistic research, examines music theater discursively in social space, and probes contemporary forms of aesthetic perception. The project structure comprises four pillars, which include as cooperation partners the Institute for Music Theater (singing/directing), the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology, the Institute for Music Journalism TV, Radio, Internet as well as the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (stage design course). The sub-projects include two doctoral projects in musicology that have been running on a scholarship basis since the beginning of 2022, practice-oriented courses that included, for example, work with directors such as Stefan Herheim and David Hermann in the summer semester of 2022, as well as film projects in the field of music journalism, in which students have so far had the opportunity to shoot with artistic directors such as Andreas Homoki (Zurich), Birgit Meyer (Cologne) and Albrecht Puhlmann (Mannheim). A homepage is planned on which the results will be published.