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Bayreuth Festival Theatre

The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre is an opera house north of , Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: opera house and cultural heritage monument in Bayreuth, Bavaria
  • Also known as: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus” and “Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus”
  • Address: Festspielhügel 1-2, Bayreuth, 95445
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Der Traum and Margravial Opera House.

Work of art
Photo: Friedhelm Dröge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a work of art, which is situated 110 metres northwest of Bayreuth Festival Theatre.

Theater building
Photo: Chianti, FAL.
The is a Baroque opera house in the town of , . Built between 1745 and 1750, it is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored. is situated 1½ km south of Bayreuth Festival Theatre.

Work of art
Photo: El Grafo, Public domain.
is a work of art, which is situated 370 metres south of Bayreuth Festival Theatre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gartenstadt (Bayreuth) and Sankt Georgen.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a suburb.

Suburb
is an 18th-century planned new town, today a district of the city of in .

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

Latitude
49.9599° or 49° 57′ 36″ north
Longitude
11.57971° or 11° 34′ 47″ east
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
Inception
1875
Operator
Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH
Open location code
8FXHXH5H+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24600627
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
12217713
Wiki­data ID
Q329133
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Bayreuth Festival Theatre” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բայրոյթի թատրոն”
  • Basque: “Bayreutheko Festspielhaus antzokia”
  • Catalan: “Festspielhaus de Bayreuth”
  • Chinese: “拜罗伊特剧院”
  • Chinese: “拜罗伊特节日剧院”
  • Chinese: “拜羅伊特節日劇院”
  • Chinese: “拜羅伊特音樂節劇院”
  • Czech: “Festivalové divadlo”
  • Dutch: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Dutch: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بايريوث فيستسپيلهاوس”
  • Esperanto: “Festivalejo de Bayreuth”
  • Esperanto: “Richard-Wagner-festivalejo”
  • Finnish: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • Finnish: “Bayreuthin festivaalitalo”
  • Finnish: “Bayreuthin Wagner-festivaalitalo”
  • French: “palais des festivals de Bayreuth”
  • French: “Palais des festivals de Bayreuth”
  • Galician: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • German: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • German: “Festspielhaus Bayreuth”
  • German: “Mystischer Abgrund”
  • German: “Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus”
  • Greek: “Εορταστικό μέγαρο του Μπαϊρόιτ”
  • Greek: “Όπερα του Μπαϊρόιτ”
  • Hebrew: “בית הפסטיבלים של ביירוית”
  • Hungarian: “Festspielhaus (Bayreuth)”
  • Hungarian: “Festspielhaus”
  • Italian: “Festspielhaus di Bayreuth”
  • Japanese: “バイロイト祝祭劇場”
  • Latin: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Malay: “Festspielhaus Bayreuth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • Norwegian: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • Persian: “تالار اپرای بایرویت”
  • Polish: “Festspielhaus w Bayreuth”
  • Portuguese: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Portuguese: “Festspielhaus Bayreuth”
  • Russian: “Байрейтский театр”
  • Russian: “Байрёйтский театр”
  • Russian: “Байрейтский фестивальный театр”
  • Russian: “Байройтский фестивальный театр”
  • Russian: “Фестивальный театр”
  • Slovenian: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Spanish: “Festspielhaus de Bayreuth”
  • Swedish: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Thai: “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”
  • Thai: “โรงละครเทศกาลไบรอยท์”
  • Thai: “โรงละครไบรอยท์”
  • Ukrainian: “Bayreuther Festspielhaus”
  • Ukrainian: “Байройтський театр”
  • Ukrainian: “Театр у Байройті”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیرتھ فیسٹیول تھیٹر”

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