We also got two seats (Tannhaüser) after a very slow and clunky process and many false starts. Payment was OK. Two nights hotel also booked (Goldener Hirsch). We will also go to Schwabach, South of Nürnberg where I spent a year - 1969-70 - as a student as English assistant at the Gymnasium. Over 40 years later, I'm still in touch with people and it should make a nice trip. At the time I visited Bayreuth but not when the festival was on. I did see Lohengrin and Tristan at the Opera House in Nürnberg - my first ever Wagner experiences on stage.
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Well, at least the ticket office were very helpful sorting out the mess. It took them a fortnight to get to us, so they must have a pile of errors after their first internet ticket office experiment.
We'll have two free days during the Ring (and at other times plenty of time to re-explore Bayreuth which is very enjoyable). Any recommendations for day trips?Comment
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We did our first Bayreuth visit last year for a performance of 'Tannhäuser': the production was appalling, needless to say, and my German girlfriend, who accompany me cannot abide Wagner, and reckons that Thielemann is a fascist, but then he is the heir to Furtwängler, so I suppose she knows what she's talking about. But overall, three days in Bayreuth were quite an experience, and the people were very charming and welcoming, rather than goosestepping Nazi types that I had feared.
Would I apply again for tickets for 2014? I'm not so sure: the ticket prices were quite steep, and maybe I shall merely put Bayreuth on my list of "have done" and move on to plans to attend the Met in New York and the Sydney Opera next. Besides the Festspielhaus may be a bit special but frankly give me Uncle Bernie conducting Wagner at CovG any day...Comment
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