With this season's two Wagner premieres – Siegfried and Götterdämmerung – Der Ring der Nibelungen, which began in October 2025 with Rheingold, comes to a close under the direction of Tobias Kratzer.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Freunde des Nationaltheaters in München e. V.
Tickets for Der Ring des Nibelungen as part of the Munich Opera Festival can only be purchased as a complete cycle and can be ordered now using the form. Written orders will be processed as part of the advance sales for the 2027 Munich Opera Festival. All performances in the Ring cycle can be purchased individually from the Munich Opera Festival's remaining ticket sales.
| DATES: RING-CYCLE A | DATES: RING-CYCLE B |
| Das Rheingold Sat, 17.07.27 8:00 pm Die Walküre Sun, 18.07.27 4:00 Upm Siegfried Thur, 22.07.27 4:00 Upm Götterdämmerung Sat, 24.07.27 4:00 pm Ring-Zyklus A: Order here | Das Rheingold Mon, 26.07.27 7:00 pm Die Walküre Tue, 27.07.27 5:00 pm Siegfried Thur, 29.07.27 4:00 pm Götterdämmerung Sat, 31.07.27 4:00 pm Ring-Zyklus B: Order here |
PRICES (in Euro):
1.114 | 986 | 836 | 662 | 416 | 276 | 112 | 80
plus an 8 euro processing fee
Friedrich Nietzsche, who once enthused so about Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk or “synthesis of the arts”, claimed to have recovered from this affliction and struck a critical tone on the, “décadent”, in his later writings. Nevertheless, in The Case of Wagner, the philosopher acknowledges that this, “music drama poet”, was indispensable for him. Because “confronted with the labyrinth of the modern soul, where could he find a guide more initiated, a more eloquent prophet of the soul, than Wagner? Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately.” For the cyclical performances of the new Ring at the Bayerische Staatsoper, characters from the tetralogy will now be examined in a symposium, from a philosophical point of view, among others. From the perspectives of various disciplines, we really want to trace the gods, the Nibelungen, humans, and other figures from the approximately fourteen-hour work in our lectures on three consecutive days. The symposium is hosted together with the Institute of Musicology at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University in the Prinzregententheater’s Gartensaal, in the very opera house that was built 125 years ago especially to perform Wagner’s works.
Gartensaal of the Prinzregententheater
Thur 24.06.27
Fri 25.06.27
Sat 26.06.27
Further information will be announced in due course.
The symposium will be held in German.
“All that is, ends,” Erda prophesies in Rheingold, and yet interest in Richard Wagner's magnum opus continues unabated after more than 150 years. With Tobias Kratzer's interpretation, the twelfth new production of the biggest opera cycle ever created will thus be staged at the actual venue where the first two parts, Rheingold and Walküre, celebrated their world premieres. But how has the view of this mythological tale’s timeless events changed over the course of Munich's 150-year plus performance history? With the premiere of Siegfried in October 2026, an exhibition on Wagner's stage magic begins in the Nationaltheater’s Freunde-Foyer, providing comprehensive evidence of the scenic attempts to realize the impossible on this theatre’s stage – gigantic dragons, swimming Rhine maidens, transforming creatures and castles of the gods. With the conclusion of the new Ring, the exhibition will also take over the Königssaal during the 2027 Munich Opera Festival, in the form of three-dimensional stage set models. Wagner's stage worlds are, however, brought to life by singer/performers, many of whom are immortalized in the portraits of the Nationaltheater’s foyers, and will also be included.
From the premiere of Siegfried in the Freunde Foyer and in July 2027 in the Königssaal, Nationaltheater
From the archives of the Bayerische Staatsoper and the DeutschesTheatermuseum; Photo no. 4: Wilfried Hösl
