HomeHomeNewsThe 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.Bach NirvanaIn Bach Nirvana, a unique dialogue between sound and visuality unfolds on the Werkstattbühne, offering a new way to experience selected keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Due to overwhelming demand, an additional performance has been scheduled for 8 August 2026 at 5.00 p.m.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.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.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.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."Technology Must Follow the Idea—Not the Other Way Around"La traviata on the Seebühne—when ideas take shapeRocket Made of WoodThe Excursions of Mr. Brouček: The Bregenzer Festspiele carpentry workshop turns into a space centerThe Last Oyster RevealedThe team of YUM! invites the audience to a post-apocalyptic luxurious dinner on the Werkstattbühne“If the music is good and I can sing it, I do it!“About experiments and popular music—a conversation with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter Magazine
