Bayreuth Festival

Bayreuth Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany

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Bayreuth Festival

Bayreuth Festival is the one and only platform that showcases the renowned Richard Wagner's music dramas each year and thus identified as the ultimate musical pilgrimage for Wagnerians.

The Bayreuth Festival is without doubt the most popular event in the world. Every year with a history dating back to the premier of Wagner's four-part Ring Cycle in 1876 it ardently dedicates six weeks in summer to productions exclusively of Richard Wagner's operas. Even today, the fiesta is successfully run by Richard's direct descendants. By composing this revolutionary structure, he intended to present his monumental music-dramas, which are beyond just opera - in Wagner's own term -Gesamtkunstwerk unified work of art.

The Bayreuth Festival Theatre was uncovered on 13 August 1876 with Das Rheingold, as the preface to the Ring, which continued to follow over the next few days. It was the time when only the musical world was chiefly talked about, with Bruckner, Mahler, Saint-Saens and Grieg, Liszt, Tchaikovsky in attendance, together with Kaiser Wilhelm I and Ludwig II Wagner's long-time patron.

Come and see yourself the amusing Bayreuth festival in 2013. But, make sure the tickets are booked in advance. It is so because tickets are normally sold out and you may even fail to buy them at the eleventh hour. Rather, the best way to secure your seat is by sending an application form and applying every year so that you are on festival's mailing list. And, once you have a ticket, no one will stop you from winning the best experience of your lifetime.

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