Award Opernwelt
We are delighted about the award of the magazine “Opernwelt” and congratulate Tobias Kratzer for the “Director of the Year”…
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Ticketing 2021
The suspension of the Bayreuth Festival this year will also change the ordering procedure for the 2021 season. The order…
Read moreDeath of Gerda Mayer!
It was with great dismay and sadness that we heard of Gerda Mayer’s death. She had been an employee of…
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Launch of “Bayreuth Discourse” online
The supporting programme of the Bayreuth Festival starts with the online discussion series “Hier gilt’s der Kunst” and the video…
Read moreVirtual festival season and the cultural summer live on site
Saturday, 25 July 2020 would have been the start of the Bayreuth Festival: The festival, the city of Bayreuth and…
Read moreBAYREUTH FESTIVAL 2020 PROGRAMME GOES ONLINE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
BAYREUTH.DG-STAGE.COM DG Stage set to show recent Bayreuth productions of six Wagner music dramas on the dates and times originally scheduled for…
Read moreAlternative top programme for Bayreuth Festival fans
For all Wagner fans, the Bayreuth Festival, together with BR-KLASSIK and 3sat, will be staging Wagner’s works as a Gesamtkunstwerk…
Read moreReversal of Festival Tickets 2020
Today, 29 May 2020, marks the beginning of the reversal of tickets already purchased for the 2020 Festival. All customers…
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death of long-time former choir director Prof. Norbert Balatsch
The Bayreuth Festival mourns the death of its long-time former choir director Prof. Norbert Balatsch, honorary member of the Vienna…
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Suspension Bayreuth Festival 2020
In view of the effects of the Corona crisis on the operations of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH, the management and the shareholders of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH – the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Bavaria, the City of Bayreuth and the Society of Friends of Bayreuth e.V. – regret that the Bayreuth Festival 2020 will have to be suspended next summer.