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Bayreuth Festival 2026: seven operas instead of eleven for the 150th anniversary

For its 150th anniversary in 2026, the Bayreuth Festival had planned to present eleven operas by Wagner. However, due to budget constraints, the festival has scaled back its ambitions and will finally settle for seven of the composer's works, including a new tetralogy. In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival will celebrate its 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Katharina Wagner has promised a programme that will include all ten of Richard Wagner's major operas (from The Flying...


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Bayreuth Festival details its 2025 programme

As its 112th edition draws to a close, the Bayreuth Festival 2025 reveals its programme: a new production of Die Meistersinger by Matthias Davids, the return of Christian Thielemann to conduct Lohengrin, and revivals of Tristan und Isolde by Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Parsifal by Jay Scheib and Valentin Schwarz's Ring conducted by Simone Young. The 112th edition of the Bayreuth Festival has just come to an end and it can boast a return of the public: unlike last year, the...