The Transformation of the World Into Music (German: '''Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik''' - Bayreuth vor der Premiere[1]) is a 1994 German documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is about the Bayreuth Festival and Richard Wagner's operas, in particular The Flying Dutchman, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde.[2] The film was conceived as an introductory work "to a series of opera broadcasts on German television".[3]
Herzog's official website describes The Transformation of the World Into Music as "a personal portrait and backstage view of the Richard-Wagner-Festival in Bayreuth and the mysteries of opera"'[4]