32 minutes (!) stormy applause, standing ovations, 49 curtains – with the acclaimed performance of Götterdämmerung on 28.8. 2017 endet not only the 106th Bayreuth Festival, also the “Ring of the Nibelungen”, directed by Frank Castorf, is now theater history …
The Festival Programme 2018 is online – the saison startet on the 25th July – with a new production of Lohengrin. The direction lies in the hands of Yval Sahron, the stage design comes from Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy. The performances conducted by …
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.
