The Bayreuth Festival
Wednesday, 2 October 2013 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union Category/Kategorie: General , Museums, Exhibitions , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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The
Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in
Bayreuth , at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer
Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle
Der Ring des Nibelungen and
Parsifal .
Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus . Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the theatre, which contained many architectural innovations to accommodate the huge orchestras for which Wagner wrote as well as the composer’s particular vision about the staging of his works. The Festival has become a pilgrimage destination for Wagner enthusiasts.
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The festival draws thousands of Wagner fans to Bayreuth every summer. It is very difficult to get tickets, because demand (estimated at 500,000) greatly exceeds supply (58,000 tickets); the waiting time is between five and ten years (or more). The process entails submitting an order form every summer, applicants are usually successful after about ten years. Failure to make an application every year results in being placed at the back of the queue. Although some tickets are allocated by lottery, preference is given to members of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth (financial donors), famous patrons, and to regional and international Wagner societies, which are distributed to their own members through lottery or the willingness to pay a high contribution.
However, in the 2013 season only one opera production, for which tickets were available exclusively online and where donors or those on the waiting list had no prior eligibility, sold out within seconds.
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