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Bayreuth 2023
The 2023 Bayreuth Festival schedule is now online here.
2023 New Production: Parsifal opens the Festival on July 25, directed by Jay Scheib, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, and starring Joseph Calleja. Three Ring cycles will be presented (July 26-31, August 5-10, and August 21-26), as well as Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer, and Tristan und Isolde. -
Access to Bayreuth Tickets through WSNY
The Wagner Society of New York is able to offer members exclusive opportunities to apply for Bayreuth Festival tickets, which are reserved for current Members in at least the Regular or Dual Member categories, and are subject to availability. If you are interested in obtaining tickets for the 2023
Bayreuth Festival through the WSNY, please send an email to [email protected], with your contact information (phone, email and address), as well as any price or date preferences and the number of sets of tickets requested. As of December 2022 we do not yet have information on how many tickets and for what dates we will be allocated, so we will follow up with those who have expressed interest when we know, likely in January or February of 2023. Priority will first be given to members who have not received tickets recently, and then by order of receipt of application. Note that an additional contribution equal to 15% of the ticket price will be added.Other ways to obtain Bayreuth Tickets:
1. If you are a member of the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth, you will receive their full information on the Festival with order forms; expected in mid-Dec.
2. The Bayreuther Festspiele sent direct order documents from the ticket office (Kartenbüro) at the end of 2022. In the past, you could purchase a maximum of four tickets per work, for a total of 12 tickets. However, tickets from the ticket office usually require a multi-year wait, so you are unlikely to receive a ticket allocation through the Bayreuth ticket office in your first year of application.
3. In the last few years, a portion of the total number of Bayreuth Festival tickets is also available through immediate online sale, in a process separate from the ticket office orders described in (3) above. Online ordering will begin in May 2023, and popular productions (such as the Ring Cycle in 2022) tend to sell out very quickly.