Every two years, the Gluck Festival (Gluck Festspiele) becomes the cultural heartbeat of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region. Concerts also take place in Bayreuth.
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About the composer behind the festival
The composer Christoph Willibald Gluck places the human being at the centre of his work.
150 years before Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, he explored like no other, through the language of his music, the depths and shallows of the human psyche. In doing so, he demanded the greatest possible passion, authenticity and intensity from all his protagonists and musicians.
This makes him perhaps the greatest humanist in the history of opera – and an extremely modern champion of truthfulness on stage.
The Gluck Festival 2026
The next Gluck Festival will take place from 8 May to 22 May 2026. Look forward to no fewer than three Gluck operas in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.
The programme has already been announced: Gluck Festspiele
Looking back: the Gluck Festival 2024
The festival took place between 9 and 18 May 2024.
Concerts in Bayreuth:
- 9 May 2024, 7.30 pm:
C. W. Gluck: La Clemenza di Tito (Margravial Opera House Bayreuth) - 10 May 2024, 7.30 pm:
Concert with Valer Sabadus (Margravial Opera House Bayreuth) - 10 May 2024, 10 pm:
Night concert: Time stands still (Schlosskirche Bayreuth) - 11 May 2024, 7.30 pm:
W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Margravial Opera House Bayreuth)
Concerts outside Bayreuth:
- 12 May 2024, 5 pm:
Chamber music: Time stands still (Grafschaftskirche Castell) - 12 May 2024, 8 pm:
Chamber music: Time stands still (Dorfmühle Lehrberg) - 17 May 2024, 7.30 pm:
W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Stadttheater Fürth) - 17 May 2024, 10.30 pm:
Night concert: Time stands still (Stadttheater Fürth | foyer) - 18 May 2024, 7 pm:
Concert with Samuel Mariño (Historischer Rathaussaal Nürnberg)
Get to know the music
The following recording from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” gives you an impression of what the composer’s music sounds like:
