Oksana Lyniv received this year’s special prize of the Bavarian Culture Prize yesterday!
Arts Minister Markus Blume described Lyniv as a ‘conductor in a class of her own, a musical pioneer and an…
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You may flip through the 2025 festival magazine directly or download it as a PDF file and print it out.
A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. With an auditorium in which his music unfolds like in no other theatre in the world. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. Connoisseurs, friends, skeptics – they all come to the green hill every summer to explore his legacy, away from the great centres of culture. Since 1876, when he first performed his “Ring des Nibelungen” as a cycle. Richard Wagner: visionary, utopian – his heritage remains alive here. At the most exciting musical theatre festival in the world.