As in the previous year, there will also be another online instant purchase of festival tickets in 2018. This starts on July 4, 2018 at 6:00 PM (UTC+2).
For most of the 32 performances of Bayreuth Festival 2018, tickets from various price categories will go on sale. These are so-called returns, meaning tickets that were not paid for by the initial buyers despite reasonable deadlines, or were returned for valid reasons, for example.
As with the first online instant purchase date in March 2018, each interested buyer can directly acquire a total of up to 8 tickets, and up to 4 tickets per work performed. A prerequisite for participation is a customer account with the Bayreuth Festival and a verified email address. Anyone who does not yet have a customer account can register immediately until July 2, 2018, 11:59 PM at http://ticketshop.bayreuther-festspiele.de/de. Email address verification must be completed by July 3, 2018, 12 PM. – For technical reasons, new registrations will only be possible again from July 6, 2018, 2 PM onwards.
Since we strive to make the festival performances accessible to as many interested parties as possible, we ask for your understanding that all those who have already been offered or allocated tickets for the 2018 festival season via the ordering process (online or in writing) or the instant purchase process by means of an invoice, will only receive access to the ticket shop with a 24-hour delay after the start of the instant purchase (July 5, 2018, 6:00 PM).
The acquired tickets, the so-called online instant purchase tickets, will be provided to the buyer as a PDF file for download from July 9, 2018, in the personal login area “My Festival” (access on the festival’s website).
Before printing, the tickets must be personalized. Names can be entered up to seven days before the performance for which the tickets are valid. Should a ticket need to be transferred at short notice (e.g., due to illness), a re-registration can be carried out up to 30 minutes before the start of the event at the ticket office of Bayreuth Festival.
Bayreuth Festival hopes, with the renewed online instant purchase, to accommodate all spontaneous Wagner and festival enthusiasts and furthermore, to offer all interested parties an additional chance to acquire their desired tickets without waiting times.