La traviataFor the first time, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece La traviata will be performed on the Seebühne. The premiere takes place on 22 July 2026. The production is directed by Damiano Michieletto, with musical direction by Kirill Karabits and Pietro Rizzo.The Excursions of Mr. BroučekLeoš Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček celebrates its world premiere on 23 July 2026 at the Festspielhaus. Staged by the US-American director Yuval Sharon, composed by Robert Jindra.MasterclassFor the 10th time already, the Bregenzer Festspiele give talented young singers from the festival productions the special opportunity to work on major roles from the repertoire.YUM!YUM! is a dazzling and technologically advanced music-theatre experience that combines opera, performance art, and extended reality into a fully immersive spectacle. In a world grotesquely exaggerated and unsettlingly close at once, luxury and scarcity, beauty and decay, satire and reality collide.L’elisir d’amoreThe Opera Studio’s production of L’elisir d’amore by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by Anna Kelo, will be presented at the Theater am Kornmarkt on 17, 19, 21 and 22 August 2026.Passion of the Common ManPassion of the Common Man by Daníel Bjarnason and Royce Vavrek will celebrate its world premiere at the Werkstattbühne on 31 July 2026—commissioned by the Bregenzer Festspiele featuring vocal performances by Emma Kajander, Anne Sofie von Otter, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes and Jacques Imbrailo. Additional performance on 1 August 2026.Le Malade imaginaireMolière’s brilliant final work will be presented at the Bregenzer Festspiele—a co-production with the Schauspiel Köln and the Burgtheater under the direction of Stefan Bachmann. Performances will take place at the Theater am Kornmarkt from 24 to 26 July 2026.under the influenceAs part of the Österreichische Theaterallianz the drama under the influence at the Theater KOSMOS will celebrate its world premiere on the 12 August 2026 as a co-production with the Bregenzer Festspiele.Dalia StasevskaOn July 27, 2026, the Wiener Symphoniker will perform works by Saariaho, Boulanger, and Dvořák, under the baton of Dalia Stasevska — with Emily D’Angelo, Andrew Staples, and Rafael Fingerlos as soloists.Eva OllikainenOn 2 August, works by Sibelius and Stravinsky will be featured in the program of the Wiener Symphoniker under the baton of Eva Ollikainen. Guido Sant’Anna will appear as soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.Leo McFallOn 23 August, 2026, conductor Leo McFall, the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, and soprano Emma Kajander will present works by Smyth, Britten, Maconchy, and Elgar at the Festspielhaus.Petr PopelkaOn 10 August, 2026, the Wiener Symphoniker, will perform Deutsch’s Intensity (Austrian premiere), under the baton of Petr Popelka, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.In the Heart of BaroqueIn 2026, the Bavarian Radio Choir will celebrate its 80th anniversary. It will perform at a choir concert on July 28, 2026, in Pfarrkirche St. Gallus, Bregenz in Bregenz.more