For the 2026 festival the Bayreuth Festival Choir is looking for
Choir singers (m/f/d) in all voice groups
Start of employment: mid June 2026
End of employment: August 26th, 2026
Application deadline: October 1st, 2025
The Bayreuth Festival is one of the world’s most famous music theatre festivals. It has been running for more than 140 years and takes place every summer, exclusively featuring performances of Richard Wagner’s works. It employs 65 people year-round and up to 800 during the festival.
The city of Bayreuth and the Upper Franconia region offer a high quality of life in a beautiful rural setting with plenty of leisure activities.
Rehearsal period: mid June – 24.07.2026
Performances: 25.07.-26.08.2026
- Completed university degree (singing) or equivalent qualification
- Good command of the German language
- Experience as a choir singer in opera houses and/or radio stations is desirable
- Choral singers in the festival choir must have memorized the repertoire to be performed during the 2026 festival season by the beginning of the rehearsal period (mid-June)
Auditions are planned for autumn 2025 in the following cities:
Leipzig, Dortmund, Brussels
Please indicate in your application which of these locations would be most convenient for you to audition. There is no guarantee that your request will be granted.
Invitations to audition will be sent out after a thorough review of the submitted documents. The audition programme will be announced in the invitation.
Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if their aptitude and qualifications are otherwise essentially the same.
Please send your application with CV and a current audio or video recording exclusively by email to vorsingenchor@bayreuther-festspiele.de. The application deadline is 1 October 2025.