Getting tickets for the Bayreuther Festspiele of Wagner operas in Germany is difficult. Cheap tickets have long waiting lists while package deals are expensive.

Festspielhalle in Bayreuth, Germany
Buying tickets for the annual Bayreuther Festspiele is a laborious process. Applications for Bayreuth tickets must be made in writing months in advance and it can easily take ten years to actually get tickets to the most famous Wagner opera festival in the world. Tickets can be as cheap as €8 but many visitors have to settle for package deals costing several hundred euros in order to actually obtain tickets in a given year.

Buying Tickets for the Bayreuther Festspiele in Bavaria, Germany
Most tickets for the annual Bayreuther Festspiele are sold by the organizers of the Wagner festival via a slow and laborious process. Online reservations with instant confirmations are impossible. Applications for tickets must be in writing, months in advance. It generally takes eight to twelve years to actually get tickets to the festival.

In order to buy tickets for the Bayreuther Festspiele, first-time applicants should write to the Wagner festival organizers and request an application form for opera festival tickets. The address is: Kartenbüro, Postfach 10 02 62, 95402 Bayreuth, Germany.

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