Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Richard Wagner’s imagine a festival house for the performance of his music dramas took a long time to fruition. However when his eyesight was finally noticed, the world’s most-celebrated event orchestra was also created. For the ceremonial laying from the theater’s cornerstone on, may 22, 1872, Wagner himself carried out a efficiency of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, a custom that is continuing even today from the Bayreuth Event Orchestra each summer season. The members from the event orchestra are selected from among Europe’s greatest musicians, with particular traditions keeping sway for decades, like the usage of horn players through the Vienna Philharmonic. The orchestra people sit in the theatre as Wagner insisted: inside a cavernous space below the stage, totally invisible towards the viewers. The unique acoustics of the construction make each efficiency at Bayreuth a distinctive experience.