tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483678492345755723.post3910175431291232597..comments2024-02-25T13:20:20.620+01:00Comments on mostly opera: Bayreuth Festival audiencesmostly opera...http://www.blogger.com/profile/05653818157295091506noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483678492345755723.post-68682347527440164812011-04-06T14:55:05.631+02:002011-04-06T14:55:05.631+02:00Apparently I am among the few who waited the full ...Apparently I am among the few who waited the full 10 years for my tickets! It's a process I started 20 years ago but did not submit my annual requests consistently until 10 years ago. No Ring this year, I am sad to say. Will I get a renewal form after this year's festival?! At least I toured the theatre (during the off-season) more than ten years ago!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17598343295548866527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483678492345755723.post-24332451162613763392008-08-20T08:39:00.000+02:002008-08-20T08:39:00.000+02:00I woldn´t be surprised if it was indeed closer to ...I woldn´t be surprised if it was indeed closer to 10%..<BR/>There are no notices on the Festival grounds, however you are warned both on the website and on the tickets that you have to carry ID´s with you and may be asked to identify yourself upon entering the Festival House (your name is printed on the ticket unless you have a Friends of Bayreuth ticket, in which case the company name is printedmostly opera...https://www.blogger.com/profile/05653818157295091506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483678492345755723.post-41391412427323904542008-08-19T19:56:00.000+02:002008-08-19T19:56:00.000+02:00Closer to 10% of the tickets are available to the ...Closer to 10% of the tickets are available to the public, I suspect. Most of the tickets for the first week of the Festival are allocated to members of the Friends (well, there are 5000 of them now and they contribute money to support the Festival, so let's not begrudge them) and to the Press. For the remainder of the Festival, the tickets are allocated to those favoured by the "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483678492345755723.post-79099182284002036452008-08-19T17:29:00.000+02:002008-08-19T17:29:00.000+02:00I met a few people who had done the wait. There w...I met a few people who had done the wait. There was a pair of British men in line for the Ring---one of them had waited 8 or so years and gotten a Parsifal ticket and was hoping to get Ring tickets, and the other had the exact opposite situation. However, I didn't really talk to many people outside of those on the box office line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com