A special Ring Cycle will be performed for the 150th anniversary Bayreuth Festival in 2026, the annual Richard Wagner showcase said as this season’s schedule ended with sellouts for all 30 performances.
FILE - Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house"Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010.
The 150th anniversary festival will feature Bayreuth’s first production of “Rienzi,” Wagner’s third opera, along with all 10 of his mature works that have traditionally been performed at the opera house built in Bavaria to the composer’s specifications. It also will include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Wagner at the concert following the foundation stone ceremony in 1872 and played at the 1951 reopening of Bayreuth following World War II.
“Meistersinger” next year will be conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Matthias Davids, and the cast will include Georg Zeppenfeld, Michael Spyres, Christina Nilsson and Michael Nagy. It replaces Barrie Kosky’s 2017 production.
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