Entertaining, not academic. Beneath the surface, but with humor: Dr. Sven Friedrich will again hold his production-related introductory lectures during the 2025 Festival season. This gives you the opportunity to gain insights into the evening’s production already in the morning.
Introductory Lectures
Production-Related Introductory Lectures 2025
The lecturer, Dr. Sven Friedrich, has been the director of the Richard Wagner Museum with the National Archive and Research Center of the Richard Wagner Foundation, located in Wagner’s home Wahnfried, since 1993. He is considered a competent lecturer and author on all areas of Richard Wagner research and journalism.
The introductory lectures take place at 10:30 AM on the respective performance day at the Festspielhaus.
The approximately one-hour introductory lectures are organized by BF Medien GmbH for Bayreuth Festival. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Society of Friends of Bayreuth e.V., https://freunde-bayreuth.org/ for financing the production-related introductory lectures.
The ticket for the evening’s performance, and for any other Festival performance, entitles you to free admission to the introductory lecture.
You also have the option to watch the introductory lectures as a video recording using the QR code or link on your online ticket.
Events
The introductory lectures take place on all performance days at 10:30 AM.
You also have the option to watch the introductory lectures as a video recording using the QR code or link on your online ticket.
On performance days, you have the opportunity to purchase the program booklets for the performances at our kiosk from 10 AM to 12 PM.
The production-related introductory lectures are made possible by the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth e.V.
