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Bayreuth festival: Online ticket sales will begin

Lovers of the operas of Richard Wagner should be the 31. January reserve. At 14 o’clock (UTC +1) to begin the online selling for the festival season in 2016.

For a long time it belonged to the myth of the Richard-Wagner festival that for years on cards and had to wait. In the meantime, a few clicks on the Internet for Ticket purchases. Each customer can have up to six Tickets to buy, how spokesman Peter Emmerich told.

As before, but also a part of the cards to interested parties with a written order – the more you are in this process already in vain has ordered, the higher the Chance of a ticket. The Ticketvergabe for the festival was in the last years always again in the spotlight. The Federal court had complaints that too few cards in the free sale. On this critique responded to the Festspielleitung among other things with the website.

The composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) dedicated to the Festival begins on the 25. July with the Premiere of “Parsifal”, under the musical direction of Andris Nelsons. The Richard-Wagner festival find, with some interruptions, since 1876. The Festspielhaus on the Green hill is legendary. It is considered as one of the Opera houses with the best acoustics in the world.

at/ks (dpa)