After 30 performances, the 112th Bayreuth Festival conclude very successfully today. Over 58,000 visitors attended, and all 30 performances were sold out. In glorious weather, more than 15,000 enthusiastic visitors enjoyed the two open-air concerts on July 24 and 30, 2024.
The festival opened with a new production of “Tristan und Isolde”. The event series “Diskurs Bayreuth” took place for the ninth time as part of the supporting program and this year focused on the theme “Wagner’s Lust-Spiele”. Encounters between artists, scientists, and the audience took place on the Green Hill. Participants included Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Georg Friedrich Haas, Alex Ross, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Dr. phil. habil. Kai-Hinrich Müller, and Matthias Davids.
For the fifteenth time, the Wagner for Children project, realized by BF-Medien, took place. A version of “Der fliegende Holländer” specially created for children was performed a total of ten times with great enthusiasm on rehearsal stage IV; all performances were sold out with approximately 2,000 young visitors.
Once again, the Bayreuth Festival offered a contingent of discounted tickets to young people up to 25 years old as part of “Wagner for Starters”, with demand far exceeding supply. The Bayreuth Festival also participated in the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the KULTURPASS. Both offers will continue in 2025.
The 113th Bayreuth Festival will open on July 25, 2025, with a new production of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti and directed by Matthias Davids. Georg Zeppenfeld, Michael Spyres, Christina Nilsson, and Michael Nagy, among others, will be featured. As revivals, you can experience the production “Parsifal” from July 28, 2025, with Pablo Heras-Casado on the podium and Elīna Garanča as Kundry in the performances on August 24 and 26, 2025. “Lohengrin” with Piotr Beczała in the title role, conducted by Christian Thielemann, returns to the schedule for 4 performances from August 1, 2025. “Tristan und Isolde” will be performed five times from August 3, 2025, with Andreas Schager in the title role. The “Ring des Nibelungen”, directed by Valentin Schwarz and again musically directed by Simone Young, will be performed for the last time in 2025 in 2 cycles, Cycle I from July 26, 2025, and Cycle II from August 15, 2025. The complete cycle can be ordered from September; online immediate purchase will begin on December 1, where it will again be possible to purchase individual works of the “Ring des Nibelungen”.
Order documents for the 2025 festival season will be sent out, made available online, and processed from early September. Please submit orders by October 11, 2024.
If your order can be accommodated, you will receive an invoice as an offer to purchase the tickets by mid-November 2024 at the latest. The proven ordering procedure of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth e.V. with corresponding ticket contingents naturally remains in place.
For audience members with limited mobility in the Right Box, Right Balcony, and Right Gallery, an elevator is available in the East staircase on the right side.
Since this year, the Bayreuth Festival have installed an induction loop system for people with hearing impairments. This option is available for seats accessed via Door III and includes rows 9 to 13 with more than 200 seats in price categories A1, A2, B1, B2, B3. This allows users of hearing aids and cochlear implants with induction or telecoils to hear directly and understand speech better.
We look forward to seeing you again in 2025, stay healthy!
Bayreuth Festival 2024 Concludes!
