
Aigul Akhmetshina, Michael Fabiano, Marina Rebeka, Pretty Yende, Sara Blanch & Jessica Pratt Lead Tiroler Festspiele Erl’s 2025-26 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Tiroler Festspiele Erl has announced its 2025-26 season.
Autumn Season
Holger Falk will perform alongside Herbert Schuch, Vivi Vassileva, and Musicbanda Franui.
Performance Date: Oct. 2, 2025
Julian Prégardien, Herbert Schuch, and Musicbanda Franui will perform in concert.
Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2025
Winter Season
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium will be performed by Elisabeth Breuer, Ulrike Malotta, Gideon Poppe, and Lukas Enoch Lemcke. Felix Mildenberger conducts.
Performance Dates: Dec. 7, 2025
Asher Fisch directs a new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Louisa Proske directing. The cast includes Sara Blanch, Lodovico Ravizza, Kang Wang, and Adolfo Corrado.
Performance Dates: Dec. 27, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026
Francesco Lanzillotta conducts Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” which will be performed in concert with Jessica Pratt, Francesco Demuro, Sarah Dufresne, and Adolfo Corrado.
Performance Dates: Dec. 28, 2025
Marina Rebeka headlines the Silver Gala with music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Vincenzo Bellini, Charles Gounod, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Michele Gamba conducts.
Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2025
Eva Gesine Baur’s “Maria Callas. Die Stimme der Leidenschaft” will be presented.
Performance Dates: Jan. 4, 2026
Asher Fisch conducts the Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Meredith Wohlgemuth, Manuela Leonhartsberger, Matteo Ivan Rašić, and Lukas Enoch Lemcke. The program also includes music by Busoni.
Performance Dates: Jan. 6, 2026
Easter Season
Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Israel in Egypt” will star Maria Ladurner, Miriam Kutrowatz, Alois Mühlbacher, Johannes Bamberger, Matthias Helm, and Daniel Ochoa. Heinz Ferlesch conducts.
Performance Dates: March 29, 2026
Asher Fisch conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal” with Michael Nagy, James Platt, Vitalij Kowaljow, Jamez McCorkle, Audun Iversen, and Ricarda Merbeth.
Performance Dates: April 2 & 5, 2026
Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Johannes-Passion” will include João Terleira, Jacques Imbrallo, Edward Grint, Karola Schmid, and Jasmin Etmina. Tobias Wögerer conducts.
Performance Date: April 3, 2026
Karin Bachner and Eli Hooker headline an evening of music by Jukka Linkola, Christoph Pepe Auer, and Duke Ellington. Michael Schneider conducts.
Performance Date: April 4, 2026
Summer Season
Sinéad Campbell Wallace performs alongside Asher Fisch in a program that includes music by Berg and Bruckner.
Performance Date: July 2, 2026
Giacomo Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Hector Berlioz’s “Cléopâtre” will be performed in a double bill. Edward Gardner conducts a production by Deborah Warner. Corinne Winters stars.
Performance Dates: July 3-19, 2026
Richard Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” will be conducted by Asher Fisch and directed by Josef E. Köpplinger. The cast will include Gabor Bretz, Sinéad Campbell Wallace, Jamez McCorkle, Shannon Keegan, Matthew Newlin, and Christopher Maltman.
Performance Dates: July 11-26, 2026
Philip Venables’s “We Are The Lucky Ones” will be conducted by Bassem Akiki and directed by Ted Human. The cast will include Claron McFadden, Nina van Essen, Helena Rasker, Frederick Ballentine, Germán Olvera, and Alex Rosen.
Performance Dates: July 18 -24, 2026
Samuel Hasselhorn, and Joseph Breinl performs lieder by Brahms and Clara and Robert Schumann. Waltraud Meier will also appear.
Performance Date: July 22, 2026
Bizet’s “Carmen” will be performed in concert with Asher Fisch conducting an all star cast that includes Aigul Akhmetshina, Michael Fabiano, Alexander Vinogradov, and Pretty Yende.
Performance Date: July 25, 2026