FESTI VA L LOU NGEThe Festival Lounge offers you and your guests every opportunity for an exclusive evening at the Bregenz Festival. Our hostesses welcome you with an aperitif and then take you on a backstage tour during which you can find out all about the Bregenz Festival. After this comes the culinary highlight of the evening, the festival dinner. Then you will be conducted to your upholstered seat in the covered viewing area of the Festival Lounge. After the show you can relax and reflect on the evening over a farewell drink.

A Premium Ticket offers special privileges to make your visit to the Bregenz Festival a memorable occasion for you and your friends. Our hostesses welcome you to the Lounge, a covered viewing area with upholstered seating. Your evening at the festival ends with a farewell drink plus finger food.

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S he’s desired by all and is an object of fascination for the soldiers on guard duty as they smoke and play cards: Carmen. The soldier Don José is ordered to detain

her after a fight but she twists him around her finger. He is arrested for his weakness but is soon released. He sees the flower she threw at him as a token of her love and dreams of spending his life with her, even at the cost of losing his rank and status. He hides out with her band of smugglers, ignores Micaëla’s words of warning, and even imagines he’s more than a match for Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter. The latter, however, has long since captured Carmen’s heart, making Don José mad with jealousy ...

George Bizet’s most successful opera is directed by Kasper Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House in Lon-don. It will be staged with a set designed by British artist Es Devlin, who has designed sets for pop stars like Adele, U2, the Pet Shop Boys and Kanye West.

PREMIERE 19 July 2017 – 9.15 p.m.

PERFORMANCES 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30 July – 9.15 p.m.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 August – 9.00 p.m.Seebühne | Festspielhaus

Conductor Paolo Carignani | Jordan de SouzaStage director Kasper HoltenSet designer Es DevlinCostume designer Anja Vang Kragh

Bregenz Festival Choir | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Children’s choir of Musikmittelschule Bregenz-Stadt | Wiener Symphoniker |

Opera in four acts (1875) | Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on the short novel by Prosper Mérimeé | Sung in French with German surtitles

O P E R A O N T H E L A K E

CARMENGEORGES BIZET

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PRICES Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg

CAT. 1 2 3 4 5 6

EUR 49 40 33 28 22 18

PRICES Wiener Symphoniker

CAT. 1 2 3 4 5 6

EUR 84 67 53 35 25 20

ORCHESTRALCONCERTS

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VORARLBERG

20 August – 11.00 a.m. | FestspielhausConductor Gérard KorstenViolin Paweł ZalejskiViola Piotr Szumieł

Olivier Messiaen Un sourireWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat major KV 364 (320d)César Franck Symphony in D minor

WIENER SYMPHONIKER24 July – 7.30 p.m. | FestspielhausConductor Antonio MéndezPiano Javier Perianes

Claude Debussy Iberia. Images for orchestra, no. 2 Manuel de Falla Nights in the Garden of Spain Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G majorManuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2

30 July – 11.00 a.m. | FestspielhausConductor Philippe Jordanwith Martina Serafin, Andreas Schager, Kwangchul Youn

Richard Wagner Siegfried-IdyllRichard Wagner The Valkyrie Act One

7 August – 7.30 p.m. | FestspielhausConductor Constantinos CarydisPercussion Dimitris Desyllas

Ernest Guiraud Chasse fantastique, symphonic poemMinas Borboudakis Cassiopeia for percussion and stringsHector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

OPERA ON THE LAKE 2017   |   18

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CARMENGEORGES BIZET

Moses causes darkness to envelop Egypt in order to finally bring about the Israelites’ release from capti-vity. The Pharaoh eventually relents and proclaims

they will be set free. His son, however, doesn’t want to lose a Hebrew girl he is secretly in love with and incites a key mover to make the Pharaoh change his mind. His plan works. So Moses prays to his God for a more brutal kind of help.

For this rarely staged opera, the Dutch director Lotte de Beer has teamed up with the theatre company Hotel Modern – which conjures up its own reality using filmed objects and miniature puppets – to present the biblical tale of plagues and the parting of the Red Sea on the Bregenz stage.

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MOSES INEGYPT

PRICES Moses in Egypt

CATEGORY 1 2 3 4 5 6

EUR 142 127 109 95 50 26Premiere surcharge: EUR 25 per ticket (categories 1 - 2). Different seating plan.

PREMIERE 20 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m.PERFORMANCES

23 July – 11.00 a.m. & 31 July – 7.30 p.m.Festspielhaus

Conductor Enrique Mazzola Stage director Lotte de Beer Set and costume designer  Christof Hetzer Theatre company  Hotel ModernStage music in cooperation with Vorarlberg Conservatory | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Wiener Symphoniker |

Tragic-sacred drama in three acts (1818/19) | Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola | Sung in Italian with German surtitles

GIOACHINO ROSSINI

TO THELIGHTHOUSE

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A young boy says he wants to travel by boat to the light- house. »Yes, of course,« his mother responds, »if it's fine tomorrow«. But father cuts them short by saying,

»It won't be fine". The boy wishes there was an axe handy so he could kill his father on the spot.

Thoughts and feelings, unarticulated and unutterable – inner voices like these form the core of Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse. Music creates the space in which what is unsayable can resonate. These possibilities fascinate the Greek composer Zesses Seglias, and together with the stage director and author Ernst Marianne Binder he has written an opera based on To the Lighthouse. An open window on the creative process has been offered at a series of insight sessions organised by the Opera Workshop at Kunsthaus Bregenz and starting in May 2015, and now the finished opera will receive its world premiere.

PREMIERE 16 August 2017 – 8.00 p.m.PERFORMANCE18 August – 8.00 p.m.Werkstattbühne

Conductor Claire Levacher Stage director Ernst Marianne Binder Set designer  Jakob KoldingCostume designer  Vibeke AndersenSymphony Orchestra Vorarlberg

Chamber opera in three parts | Libretto by Ernst Marianne Binder after the novel by Virginia Woolf | Sung in English with German surtitles | World premiere

PRICE To the Lighthouse EUR 31

ZESSES SEGLIAS

THE MARRIAGEOF FIGARO

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Figaro’s bride-to-be Susanna is supposed to spend the first night not with him, but with the count he works for? Figaro uses all his cunning and exploits the con-

fused emotional state of the people around him, to prevent the count from exercising his peculiar aristocratic privilege. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera contains comic scheming, erotic recklessness and political dynamite.

After Così fan tutte in 2015 and Don Giovanni in 2016, the first of the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas will be performed by young singers in the Bregenz Festival‘s Opera Studio. Staged at Vorarlberger Landestheater, the work will be directed by Jörg Lichtenstein, who thus returns to Bregenz after his celebra-ted production of Così fan tutte.

PREMIERE 14 August 2017 – 7.30 p.m.PERFORMANCES

15, 17 & 19 August – 7.30 p.m.Vorarlberger Landestheater

Conductor Hartmut Keil Stage director Jörg LichtensteinSet and costume designer Nikolaus Webern Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg

Opera buffa in four acts | Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte | Sung in Italian with German surtitles

WOLFGANG AMADEUSMOZART

PRICES The Marriage of Figaro

CATEGORY 1 2 3

EUR 48 38 27

THESITUATION

W E R K S TAT T B Ü H N E

When Hebrew and Arabic speakers talk about the political situation in the Middle East, they refer to it simply as »the situation«. Resident director

at Berlin‘s Maxim Gorki Theater, Yael Ronen, puts her last piece development into a German language course in the Neukölln district. The course participants have all come to Berlin in recent years. From Syria, where war has raged since 2011. From Israel and Palestine, where the political and social climate has been growing ever more militant. No wonder, then, that in German teacher Stefan’s class German grammar poses the least problem of all. Yael Ronen and actors who have come to Berlin from Syria, Palestine and Israel explore the paradoxes of re-encountering »neighbours« as well as ghosts from their past.

PREMIERE 26 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m.PERFORMANCE27 July – 7.30 p.m.Vorarlberger Landestheater

Stage director Yael Ronen Set designer  Tal Shacham Costume designer  Amit EpsteinMusic  Yaniv Fridel, Ofer Shabi

In English, German, Hebrew and Arabic with German and English surtitles | Guest performance of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin | Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin

YAEL RONEN & ENSEMBLE

PRICES The Situation

CATEGORY 1 2 3

EUR 34 28 22

W E R K S TAT T B Ü H N E

Greed, power, servitude, love, deceit, murder, betrayal, downfall – Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung brings all the passions and calamities of

human life onto the stage. The Dutch theatre company Hotel Modern, which is staging the opera Moses in Egypt at the Festspielhaus, transforms Wagner’s gigantic work into a fascinating piece of miniature theatre set in the world of insects. The story that spans four evenings in the original is here told compactly in 90 minutes, while Wagner’s colossal score is played by 21 instrumentalists. In Wagner’s operas, the Nibelung Alberich can change shape using the »tarnhelm«, and many insects do that too in this version: the caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly, the nymph into a grasshopper. Whereas three Rhine Maidens guard the gold in Wagner, Hotel Modern have three jellyfish guarding an already forged ring.

All the marionettes, puppets and landscapes for the production have been created with great love of detail by Hotel Modern. These actors and backdrops will be filmed live and projected on a magnified scale during the perfor-mance. A highly unusual piece of music theatre.

PREMIERE 29 July 2017 – 8.00 p.m.PERFORMANCE30 July – 8.00 p.m.Werkstattbühne

Hotel Modern Netherlands Wind Ensemble

RICHARD WAGNER

PRICE The Ring in 90 minutes EUR 31

THE RINGIN 90 MINUTES