Glastonbury 2025 opening ceremony kicks off festival with a bang

Bea SwallowBBC Information, West of EnglandYui Mok/PAThe Pyramid Stage opened with a theatre and circus present for the primary time since 1990With tents firmly pitched and wristbands secured, revellers spent the primary night time of Glastonbury Competition exploring the extra obscure and eccentric points of interest on web site.Ticketholders queued via the night time to be among the many first to enter the gates of Worthy Farm on Wednesday, brimming with pleasure. As night time fell, for the primary time in 35 years, the occasion hosted a gap ceremony from a theatre and circus act in entrance of the Pyramid Stage.And with the primary line-up not beginning till Friday, crowds additionally flocked to the standard opening hearth ceremony within the Inexperienced Fields’ Sacred House.Yui Mok/PA WireAcrobats and singers took half within the immersive performanceYui Mok/PAMany performers have been suspended within the air for the showThe viewers on the immersive aerial efficiency have been requested to tune in and hum alongside to the actions of a digital bicycle owner on display screen on the Pyramid Stafe, making a “collective soundscape”.Glastonbury organisers described the efficiency, named The Dreamweaver’s Journey, as a “stunning chaos of sound”. Yui Mok/PA WireThe Dreamweaver’s Journey was a vibrant show of sunshine, color and soundReuters/ Jaimi JoyCrowds have been inspired to sing alongside to the “breath-taking aerial odyssey”Elsewhere on web site, others leaned into nostalgia and indulged in a 90s singalong on the Greenpeace stage. The official opening of the ambient Tree Stage noticed meditations, celebrations, choices and the ceremonial lighting of the Tolpuddle hearth, which stays burning repeatedly from nightfall until daybreak.Reuters/JamiJoyThe lighting of the Tolpuddle hearth is a symbolic tribute to the competition’s historical past and group spiritBen Birchall/PARevellers gathered on the sacred Stone Circle to look at the solar setThe night culminated in a fireworks show, seen from each ceremonies, which ignited the sky with blazing trails and vibrant sparks.Many individuals gathered on the Tipi Village, The Stone Circle and on the base of the Glastonbury signal to look at the spectacle.Extra reporting by Paul Glynn