Ticket Order for the Bayreuth Festival 2019
The next Bayreuth Festival will take place from July 25 through August 28, 2019. After 32 sold-out performances in 2018 for the first time, the same number of performances will be offered again next year. Those interested can choose from five works: “Tannhäuser” (new production), “Lohengrin”, “Meistersinger von Nürnberg”, and for the last time “Parsifal” and “Tristan und Isolde”.
Starting September 7, the online ordering option for Bayreuth Festival 2019 festival tickets will be available on the Bayreuth Festival website. Since the processing of ticket requests will begin in November 2018, online orders should be received by October 31, 2018, at the latest. The documents for a written order will be sent in September; the fully completed order form should be returned to Bayreuth Festival by October 16, 2018, at the latest.
To shorten often multi-year waiting times and simplify ticket ordering, a new seating plan will be introduced starting in 2019, which will organize the seats in the festival hall more clearly than before into just 11 price and seating categories (previously there were over 20 different price and more than 40 different seating categories). Since Bayreuth Festival, due to the continued very high demand for tickets, aims to enable as many interested parties as possible from Germany and abroad to attend, the number of tickets that can be purchased per performance and per customer remains limited.
Incoming ticket orders are generally processed paperless using the standard procedure. However, in 2019, in addition to tickets for self-printing (print-at-home tickets), the customer may also receive tickets in paper form (hardcopy tickets). Following the positive experiences the festival gained in 2018 with the personalization of print-at-home tickets, and in the interest of equal treatment for all ticket holders, hardcopy tickets must also be personalized by the buyer with the user’s name starting in 2019.
Although, not least due to the tickets personalization, activities on the so-called black market have been significantly curbed, the festival unfortunately feels compelled to take appropriate legal action in confirmed cases of unauthorized ticket resale with clear intent to profit.