Pablo Heras-Casado to Lead Bayreuth Festival Orchestra’s Spain Tour in 2026
By David Salazar(Photo Credit: Jordi Renart)
The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra has announced a tour through Spain as part of the festival’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
The announcement was made on Oct. 13, 2025 sees the ensemble perform at the Palau de la Música Catalana on August 29, 2026 as part of the 40th anniversary of the Festival Perelada; Festival Internacional de Santander on August 31, 2026; Teatro de la Maestranza on Sept. 2, 2026; Teatro Real in Madrid on Sept. 3, 2026; and Palau de la Música de Valencia on Sept. 6, 2026.
Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado will conduct the ensemble in a program that showcases renowned passages from “Der Ring des Nibelungen.”
“I feel privileged and grateful to be leading the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra tour,” said Heras-Casado per an official press release. The Bayreuth Festival is a unique place where Wagner’s operas live with an incomparable artistic intensity. The musicians that make up this festival orchestra live with that musical tradition that has been transmitted from generation to generation. To be able to take that spirit to Spain, a country with a great Wagnerian tradition and where I have grown as a musician, is a dream come true. This tour will be an opportunity to share this way of living and to breathe with this music.”
This is the first time since 2012 that the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra performs in Spain. On that occasion, the ensemble appeared at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Before that, the ensemble appeared in 1955, also at the Liceu.
The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra was founded in 1876 and comprises 200 musicians.
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