Chorus Director

Jay Scheib translates Wagner's religious masterpiece into a contemporary, often abstract visual language, questioning traditional rituals and symbolism.

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Parsifal

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

Tcherniakov's production of "The Flying Dutchman" is a radical, psychologically dense interpretation that brings clear visual symbolism, strong female characters and a modern thriller scenario.

The Flying Dutchman

Rienzi, Wagner's third opera, was once his greatest success. The performance in Bayreuth is a unique opportunity to rediscover Wagner's early triumph – in a place where it has never been heard before.

Rienzi

Three piano concertos in a single evening – each one building a bridge to the past. Maurice Ravel composed his Piano Concerto in G “in the spirit of Mozart,” yet it also shimmers with hints of jazz and Basque folk music. In Credo, Arvo Pärt draws on the famous C major Prelude from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, juxtaposing familiar tonality with avant-garde techniques. And György Kurtág – who celebrated his 100th birthday in February 2026 – looks back to the free associations of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 27 piano sonatas in his mesmerizing spatial work … quasi una fantasia …, which positions the instruments all around the audience. These three strikingly different concertos are set alongside America – A Prophecy, a dark, apocalyptic vision by the British composer Thomas Adès, who conducts the performance himself. The work confronts the destruction of Mayan culture by the Spanish conquistadors, with a soprano cast in the role of a warning seer. And at the very start of the concert,  in György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique, 100 metronomes will begin ticking at the same time. One by one, they gradually fall silent. When the last metronome stops, says Víkingur Ólafsson, it feels “like the end of life.”

Chorus Director

Thomas Eitler-de Lint

Events

Past events

Jul 31 - Aug 25, 2026

Parsifal · Bayreuther Festspiele

Jul 29 - Aug 23, 2026

The Flying Dutchman · Bayreuther Festspiele

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