in your customer area and fill out the order form on the Internet. For a fee of €16, you can choose to have the invoice and tickets mailed to you.
Please note: The Bayreuth Festival sells tickets for its performances exclusively directly to visitors of the performances. Orders from tour operators or commercial resellers will not be considered. Any allocated tickets may be blocked.
Processing of your orders
Processing of ticket orders will begin in September 2024, taking into account waiting years and credit balances.
Your ticket invoice
If we are able to fulfill your wishes in full or in part, you will receive an invoice by mid-November 2024 at the latest as an offer to purchase the tickets. You have two weeks to pay your invoice; you will only be entitled to the tickets ordered once payment has been received. If payment is not received on time, your invoice will be automatically canceled and you will no longer be entitled to the tickets ordered.
Payment is only possible in euros, by bank transfer, PayPal or credit card. Please be sure to state your invoice and customer number. After receipt of payment, customers with a verified e-mail address will receive a payment confirmation by e-mail.
If you settle your invoice within the payment period, the event attendance contract is concluded. If you have not received an allocation, you have the option of purchasing tickets online immediately from December 1, 2024.
Personalisation of your tickets
All tickets sold by Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH are personalised with the visitor’s full name. If you order tickets by post, please fill in the personalisation form enclosed with the invoice legibly and return it to us.
or send us an e-mail with the names of the ticket holders for the performance in question. Online customers can personalise their tickets in their personal customer area “My Festival”.
It is not absolutely necessary to print out the tickets; you can also show them to our admission staff on your mobile phone. If, for unforeseen reasons, the visitor’s name originally entered changes, please contact the Festival ticket office up to 24 hours before the start of the performance.
Instant online purchase started on December 1st, 2 p.m.
The online instant purchase takes place since on 1 December 2024, 2 pm. Tickets for the individual pieces of DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN can also be purchased here. All persons who have a customer account with the Bayreuth Festival and whose e-mail address has already been verified can participate in the online instant purchase. If you do not yet have a customer account, please register here: https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/tickets-service/buy-tickets/
To register, you will need your customer number or verified e-mail address and your personal password. After entering the ticket shop, you have 30 minutes to select tickets and complete the order process.
A maximum of 8 tickets can be purchased for each opera, totalling 32 tickets. In the price categories G1-G4, E3-E6 and C6 as well as C7 a maximum of two tickets, as there are only a few seats available.
Payment in online instant purchase
Tickets can only be paid for in euros. The following payment options are available for paying for tickets: immediate payment by credit card: VISA, MasterCard and American Express, immediate payment by PayPal, offsetting against existing credit balances from canceled invoices for tickets for the 2020 festival season
The handling fee for each charged ticket is 6 €.
A return of the tickets is generally excluded.
Please note that purchasing tickets for Purposes of industrial or commercial reexpression is prohibited and independent of such activity for the transfer or resale of admission tickets Assignmeents prohibitions apply. Accordingly, it is in particular not permitted resell admission tickets at a higher price than the original ticket price or to offer tickets for sale at internet auctions.
The Bayreuth Festival reserves the right to refuse to sell tickets to any person who violate these prohibitions. This applies to tickets that have already been purchased by blocking them without replacement as well as for future purchases in subsequent Festival seasons.
In this respect, the General Terms and Conditions apply (cf. Section 10 of the General Terms and Conditions Ordering Procedure and Section 9 of the General Terms and Conditions Online Instant Purchase). Please refer to the details there.
Personalization of your tickets
All tickets sold by the Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH are provided with the name of the purchaser and must be personalized by the purchaser with the name of the respective visitor. In addition, each visitor must provide a telephone number or e-mail address for contact tracking purposes in the event of an infection. This data is automatically deleted no later than four weeks after the start of the performance.
In the case of “print-at-home” tickets, personalization takes place before printing in the respective personal customer area “My Festival”. Users of hardcopy tickets will receive their tickets only after they have been personalized either in the respective personal customer area “My Festival” or, if the orderer does not have such an area, by means of an appropriate form. The form will be sent with the invoice and must be completed and returned by the deadline.
Your visit to the performance
In 2024, there was no verification of vaccine or convalescent status for entry, nor was proof of a negative antigen test required. The need for prior registration for the audience was eliminated. We recommended wearing a mask during performances; there was no longer an obligation to do so.
Please arrive at the Festspielhaus in good time and bring an identity document (e.g. ID card/passport) for control purposes.
Note: Members of the “Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth e. V.” order their tickets directly through their office.
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The General Terms and Conditions of the Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH apply
– for online orders
– for online instant purchase tickets
– Orders by mail/order form,
https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/tickets-service/general-terms-and-conditions/
