After 29 performances at the Festspielhaus, the 110th Bayreuth Festival successfully conclude today. More than 50,000 attendees visited this year’s festival.
The focus was on the two new productions of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” and “Tristan und Isolde”. The latter production was added to the schedule at short notice to ensure continued performance capability in the event of potential infection outbreaks within the ensembles, and will also be on the program again next year. The new production of “Ring des Nibelungen” was eagerly awaited, as it had already been planned for 2020 and was performed three times as a cycle this year.
Furthermore, there were four performances of “Der fliegende Holländer”, five performances of “Lohengrin”, five performances of “Tannhäuser”, as well as two concerts under the musical direction of Andris Nelsons.
The event series “Diskurs Bayreuth” took place for the seventh time as part of the supporting program. This year, hundreds of visitors experienced three enthusiastic performances of the commissioned work “Nach Tristan” at Kino Reichshof with the magnificent artists Dagmar Manzel and Sylvester Groth. The two acclaimed open-air concerts in the Festspielpark were enjoyed by more than 8,000 visitors, and these concerts are planned to return next year. This year, “Diskurs Bayreuth” also extended into the city and nature. Along four discursive pilgrimage paths, which the public could explore with smartphones and headphones for the duration of the festival, the festival city transformed into a theoretical terrain where artists and scientists questioned the relationship between art and society, autonomy, and the Gesamtkunstwerk, with excerpts from conversations and thoughts by Chaya Czernowin, Ulrich Konrad, Gundula Kreuzer, Konrad Kuhn, Thomas Macho, Cornelius Meister, Herfried Münkler, Isabel Mundry, Sergej Newski, Holger Noltze, Roland Schwab, Valentin Schwarz, and Wolfgang Ullrich.
For the thirteenth time, the project Wagner for Children took place, realized by BF Medien. A version of Lohengrin specifically created for children was performed a total of ten times with great success on Rehearsal Stage IV.
Construction work on the stage tower will be completed next year; then, 6 wheelchair spaces and a passenger elevator will be available in the right tower. The hall capacity will be 1925 seats.
The order forms for Bayreuth Festival 2023 will be dispatched in the first half of December.
The artistic outlook for the coming festival years includes promising debuts by conductor Nathalie Stutzmann in “Tannhäuser” and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado with the new production “Parsifal”, as well as the return of two magnificent conductors, Semyon Bychkov for the new production “Tristan und Isolde” in 2024 and Daniele Gatti for the new production “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” in 2025.
We look forward to seeing you again in 2023, stay healthy!
Conclusion of Bayreuth Festival 2022!
