The Tiroler Festspiele Erl will end the 2024 summer season with a “Ring of the Nibelung” that is almost 100 percent full and has revenues of over one million euros.

The Ring attracted 12,000 guests to the Passion Play House.

With this success, artistic director Bernd Loebe bids farewell to the Tyrolean Festival after five seasons, and for the first time, all parts of Brigitte Fassbaender’s “Ring” production were brought together in a cycle, in time for the director and mezzo’s 85th birthday.

The outgoing chief conductor Erik Nielsen led the Festival Orchestra and the acclaimed singing ensemble made it a great success.

Director Matthew Wild who led “Mazeppa” with conductor Karsten Januschke were celebrated for their interpretation of the Tchaikovsky opera with standing ovations that lasted for minutes.

The English conductor Julia Jones impressed with an exciting program at the opening concert. Other highlights included the Schumann Quartet as well as Paul Lewis. The choir concert of the Festival Choir under the direction of Olga Yanum was also a huge hit.

The promotion of young talents in the form of an academy with well-known lecturers was also an achievement for the Association of Friends of the Tyrolean Festival Erl.

Next season Jonas Kaufmann will take over as Artistic Director and will showcase “I Puritani,” “La Bohème,” and “Parsifal.”