After 30 performances, the 112th Bayreuth Festival comes to a very successful close today. Over 58,000 visitors attended and all 30 performances were sold out.
In glorious weather, more than 15,000 enthusiastic visitors enjoyed the two open-air concerts on July 24 and 30, 2024.
The festival opened with a new production of “Tristan und Isolde”.
The “Diskurs Bayreuth” series of events took place for the ninth time as a supporting program and this year focused on the topic of “Wagner’s Lust-Spiele”. Encounters between artists, academics and the public took place on the Green Hill. Participants included Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Georg Friedrich Haas, Alex Ross, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Dr. phil. habil. Kai-Hinrich Müller and Matthias Davids.
The Wagner for Children project, realized by BF-Medien, took place for the fifteenth time. A version of “Der fliegende Holländer” created especially for children was performed a total of ten times with great enthusiasm on rehearsal stage IV; all performances were sold out with around 2,000 young visitors. Once again, the Bayreuth Festival offered young people up to the age of 25 a contingent of discounted tickets as part of “Wagner for Starters”, with demand far exceeding supply. The Bayreuth Festival also took part in the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the KULTURPASS. Both offers will be continued in 2025.
The 113th Bayreuth Festival will open on July 25, 2025 with a new production of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti and directed by Matthias Davids. Georg Zeppenfeld, Michael Spyres, Christina Nilsson and Michael Nagy will be among the performers. As a revival, you can experience the production “Parsifal” from July 28, 2025 with Pablo Heras-Casado on the podium and Elīna Garanča as Kundry in the performances on August 24 and 26, 2025. “Lohengrin” with Piotr Beczała in the title role, conducted by Christian Thielemann, returns to the repertoire for 4 performances from August 1, 2025. “Tristan und Isolde” will be performed five times from August 3, 2025 with Andreas Schager in the title role. The “Ring of the Nibelung”, directed by Valentin Schwarz and once again musically conducted by Simone Young, will be performed for the last time in two cycles in 2025, Cycle I from July 26, 2025 and Cycle II from August 15, 2025. The complete cycle can be ordered from September, and online instant purchase will begin on December 1, when it will again be possible to purchase the individual pieces of the “Ring of the Nibelung”.
Order documents for the 2025 festival season will be sent out at the beginning of September, will be made available online and have already been processed. Please place your orders by October 11, 2024.
If your order has been accepted, you will receive an invoice as an offer to purchase tickets by mid-November 2024 at the latest. The proven ordering procedure of the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth e.V. with corresponding ticket quotas will of course remain in place.
For audiences with reduced mobility in the right-hand box, the right-hand balcony and the right-hand gallery, an elevator is available in the east stairwell on the right-hand side.
Since this year, the Bayreuth Festival has installed an induction system for people with hearing impairments. The facility is available for seats accessed via door III and includes rows 9 to 13 with more than 200 seats in the price category A1, A2, B1, B2, B3. Users of hearing aids and hearing implants with induction or telecoils can hear directly and understand speech better.
We look forward to seeing you again in 2025, stay healthy!
