Bayreuth Festival 2025

Calendar 2025

24 July 2025 Festspiel Open Air (N.N.)
25 July 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
26 July 2025 Das Rheingold (Schwarz / Young)
27 July 2025 Die Walküre (Schwarz / Young)
28 July 2025 Parsifal (Scheib / Heras-Casado)
29 July 2025 Siegfried (Schwarz / Young)
30 July 2025 Festspiel Open Air (N.N.)
31 July 2025 Götterdämmerung (Schwarz / Young)
01 August 2025 Lohengrin (Sharon / Thieleman)
02 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
03 August 2025 Tristan und Isolde (Arnarsson / Bychkov)
04 August 2025 Lohengrin (Sharon / Thieleman)
05 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
06 August 2025 Lohengrin (Sharon / Thieleman)
08 August 2025 Parsifal (Scheib / Heras-Casado)
09 August 2025 Lohengrin (Sharon / Thieleman)
10 August 2025 Tristan und Isolde (Arnarsson / Bychkov)
11 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
13 August 2025 Tristan und Isolde (Arnarsson / Bychkov)
14 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
15 August 2025 Das Rheingold (Schwarz / Young)
16 August 2025 Die Walküre (Schwarz / Young)
17 August 2025 Parsifal (Scheib / Heras-Casado)
18 August 2025 Siegfried (Schwarz / Young)
19 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
20 August 2025 Götterdämmerung (Schwarz / Young)
22 August 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Matthias Davids / Daniele Gatti)
23 August 2025 Tristan und Isolde (Arnarsson / Bychkov)
24 August 2025 Parsifal (Scheib / Heras-Casado)
25 August 2025 Tristan und Isolde (Arnarsson / Bychkov)
26 August 2025 Parsifal (Scheib / Heras-Casado)

The Bayreuth Festival 2025

Highlights include Semyon Bychkov (Tristan und Isolde), Christian Thielemann (Lohengrin), Michael Spyres as Stolzing and Michael Nagy as Beckmesser.

2025 will be the last year of Valentin Schwarz' production of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

2026: Rienzi

Rienzi - for first time ever at Bayreuth for its 150th anniversary

Bayreuth Festival 2022

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In 2024, for the first time in the history of the Bayreuth Festival, there were more female than male conductors in the pit. In 2024, Simone Young conducted the Ring. The lineup that year also included Oksana Lyniv (Der fliegende Holländer), Nathalie Stutzmann (Tannhäuser), Semyon Bychkov (Tristan und Isolde), and Pablo Heras-Casado (Parsifal), and Simone Young (Der Ring des Nibelungen).

Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad

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One of the finest monuments in sound ever to have been raised to the everlasting glory of music. (Claude Debussy on Parsifal)

"The thing about Wagner is that there can be no true success in any production of his operas, only degrees of failure. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." (Keith Warner, The Guardian)

"I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. They take everything personally. It makes you a little bit scared, and it's really quite terrifying." (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth)

"People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. The audience, as much as the artists, must be prepared for a performance."
(Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone)

"I was bowled over. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. The light changed with the music, and the shadows and patterns seemed as archetypal as the music itself. Nobody had done that on the stage before. I thought it was extraordinary and wonderful."
(Patrick Carnegy to The Guardian)

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