The Bayreuth Festival has released the 2022 schedule. A new production has been added: Tristan und Isolde, which will open the Festival on July 25. It will be conducted by Cornelius Meister and directed by Roland Schwab. Schwab studied musical theater production in Hamburg under Götz Friedrich. Full casts for all operas are on the Bayreuth Festival website: Ring cycles, Tristan, Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, and Concert (two concerts at the conclusion of the Festival to be conducted by Andris Nelsons).

Three cycles of a new production of the Ring, conducted by Pietari Inkinen and directed by Valentin Schwarz, originally announced for 2020, will finally see the light of day. One opera from this production, Die Walküre, was presented in 2021.

The Festival will also present “Diskurs Bayreuth”: ancillary events that will include Festspiel Open Air, the Blue Hour (stroll on the Grüner Hügel, with Wagner’s music), and “Nach Tristan” (journey from the past back to the present). This is an evening between Wagner and Heiner Müller, with texts by both Müller and Wagner and music by Wagner, in a stage presentation in the Kulturbühne Reichshof on July 26, 28, and 30. Also, the children’s opera (this year: Tristan –July 25-Aug. 4), masterclasses, and events presented by the Gesellschaft.

Tickets: If you have requested to be on the WSNY ticket list, we will be in further touch when we know what tickets and dates we will be allotted.

Gesellschaft members will be sent full information on the Festival with order forms in mid-March.
Schedule of performances:

July
25 • Tristan und Isolde
26 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
27 • Festspiel Open Air
28 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
29 • No performance
30 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
31 • Ring Cycle I • Das Rheingold

August
1 • Die Walküre
2 • Festspiel Open Air
3 • Siegfried
4 • Lohengrin
5 • Götterdämmerung
6 • Der fliegende Holländer  
7 • Lohengrin
8 • Tannhäuser
9 • No performance
10 • Ring Cycle II • Das Rheingold
11 • Die Walküre
12 • Tristan und Isolde
13 • Siegfried
14 • Lohengrin
15 • Götterdämmerung
16 • Der fliegende Holländer
17 • No performance
18 • Tannhäuser
19 • Lohengrin
20 • Der fliegende Holländer
21 • Tannhäuser
22 • Lohengrin
23 • No performance
24 • Tannhäuser
25 • Ring Cycle III • Das Rheingold
26 • Die Walküre
27 • Der fliegende Holländer
28 • Siegfried
29 • No performance
30 • Götterdämmerung
31 • Concert
September 1 • Concert

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