Bayreuth Festspielhaus orchestra with the singers. Conductors must therefore retrain themselves to ignore cues from singers. The orchestra layout deployed at Bayreuth is unusual in three ways: The Festspielhaus remains the venue of the annual Bayreuth Festival, during which Wagner's later operas, such as the "Ring" cycle and "Parsifal", are given on a repertory basis. In early 2012, Katharina Wagner mentioned the need for repairs to the building, with mention specifically of roof leaks and crumbling of the red brick facade. In 2014, funding for restoration was announced at a level of approximately 30M €, primarily from public funding shared between Germany
Medi Bayreuth by fellow German side Riesen Ludwigsburg. The club's regular home arena is the Oberfrankenhalle, which has a seating capacity of 4,000 people. Medi Bayreuth Medi Bayreuth, official stylized as medi bayreuth, is a German professional basketball club that is based in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded as "BBC Bayreuth" in 1999. The team plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the highest division of basketball in Germany. Since 2013, the company medi is the head and naming sponsor of the team. The club was founded as the basketball section of Post SV Bayreuth in 1975 and was one of the clubs