The Bayreuth Festival

A theater created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. With an auditorium in which music unfolds like in no other theater hall in the world. Without pomp, reduced to the essentials: experiencing his works as a celebration.

Lohengrin

Conductor: Christian Thielemann

Director: Yuval Sharon

The stage design was created by the artists Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy and characterizes the production with its surreal blue light and minimalist, almost abstract backdrops.

Scene from the performance of Tristan and Isolde.

Tristan und Isolde

Conductor: Semyon Bychkov

Director: Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson

Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson's production captivates with its impressive visual design and a highly symbolic stage set that emphasizes the emotional depth of Wagner's masterpiece.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Conductor: Daniele Gatti

Director: Matthias Davids

An idyllic little town “in the middle of Germany” - let's call it Nuremberg. A gentlemen's club that loves to sing - it calls itself the “Meistersinger”. Sixtus Beckmesser, in particular, pays close attention to who is admitted to this exclusive circle.

Die Walküre

Conductor: Simone Young

Director: Valentin Schwarz

Valentin Schwarz's Walküre presents the work as a modern family drama with multi-layered characters and deliberately dispenses with traditional mythology and props.

Götterdämmerung

Conductor: Simone Young

Director: Valentin Schwarz

“The mistakes of the past should no longer extend into the future. Brünnhilde dreams of a new dawn.” – Valentin Schwarz

Das Rheingold

Conductor: Simone Young

Director: Valentin Schwarz

Valentin Schwarz stages Wagner's Rheingold as a modern family drama in which power, greed and loss are told through interpersonal relationships rather than mythological symbols.

Siegfried

Conductor: Simone Young

Director: Valentin Schwarz

“Siegfried exposes the world constructed by Mime, destroys the false symbols of his supposed origins and intoxicatingly frees himself from the false yesterday.” – Valentin Schwarz

Parsifal

Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado

Director: Jay Scheib

Jay Scheibs translates Wagner's religious masterpiece into a contemporary, often abstract visual language, questioning traditional rituals and symbolism in the process.

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Schedule 2025

28. July 2025

Cancelled: Festival open-air concert

18. July 2025

Dr. Matthias Rädel is to Become General Manager of Bayreuth Festival!

23. June 2025

Festival Open-Air 2025 on July 24 + 28 at 8 PM!

15. May 2025

Tickets for the Children’s Opera 2025!

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Discover the 2026 anniversary packages

The unique chance to see the new production of “Rienzi”!

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Performance Database

Works, Productions, Names…

In our performance database you will find all performances from 1951 to the present, including the conductors and directing teams and, of course, the casts of the individual roles, as well as further information on almost all names.

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Festival Magazine 2025

Discover the outlook on the 2025 festival season.
You can browse directly through the Festival Magazine 2025 or download and print it as a PDF file.

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Interior view of the festival hall with seats and indicated hotspot points for the tour

3D Tour

Tour of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Our new 3D tour allows you to take a virtual visit of the historic Bayreuth Festival Theater from the comfort of your own home. Let yourself be inspired by the architecture that Richard Wagner implemented according to his own ideas.

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Connoisseurs, Friends, Skeptics –

they all come to the Green Hill every summer to engage with his legacy, away from the major cultural centers. Since 1876, when he was able to perform his “Ring des Nibelungen” as a cycle for the first time. Richard Wagner: revolutionary, utopian – his legacy remains alive here. At the most exciting music theater festival in the world.

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