The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.

Franck Ollu conducts Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteriis’s “Passion” starring Sarah Aristidou, Georg Nigl, and Schola Heidelberg.

Performance Date: July 23, 2026

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Asmik Grigorian stars as Bizet’s “Carmen” alongside Jonathan Tetelman, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Davide Luciano. Teodor Currentzis conducts the production by Gabriela Carrizo (Peeping Tom).

Performance Dates: July 26-August 26, 2026

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Alain Altinoglu conducts Massenet’s “Werther” with Benjamin Bernheim, Marianne Crebassa, Sandra Hamaoui, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky.

Performance Dates: July 29-August 1, 2026

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Adam Fischer conducts a semi-staged version of Mozart’s “Lucio Silla” by Birgit Kajtna-Wönig. The cast includes Giovanni Sala, Sara Blanch, Xenia Puskarz, Martina Russomanno, and Lilit Davtyan.

Performance Date: August 2, 2026

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Kate Lindsey, Elīna Garanča, Eric Cutler, Ziyi Dai, and Leon Košavić star in Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” with Manfred Honeck conducting. Ersan Mondtag directs.

Performance Dates: August 2-28, 2026

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Lauranne Oliva, Philippe Sly, Sean Panikkar, Russell Braun, Léo Vermot-Desroches, Aaron-Casey Gould, and Willard White star in Olivier Messiaen’s “Saint Francois d’Assise.” Maxime Pascal conducts the production by Romeo Castellucci.

Performance Dates: August 4-23, 2026

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Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims” will be conducted by Gianluca Capuano and directed by Barrie Kosky. The ensemble cast will include Cecilia Bartoli, Marina Viotti, Mélissa Petit, Tara Erraught, Edgardo Rocha, Dmitry Korchak, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Florian Sempey, Misha Kiria, Peter Kellner, Giovanni Romeo, Helena Rasker, Rodolphe Briand, and Rafał Pawnuk.

Performance Dates: August 5-16, 2026

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Joana Mallwitz conducts Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” in a production by Christof Loy. The cast includes Elsa Dreisig, Victoria Karkacheva, Andrè Schuen, Bogdan Volkov, Lea Desandre, and Johannes Martin Kränzle.

Performance Dates: August 6-29, 2026

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Henze’s “Der Prinz von Homburg” will star Maximilian Schmitt, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Kathrin Zukowski, Lauri Vasar, Georg Nigl, Anthony Robin Schneider, and Magnus Dietrich. Ingo Metzmacher conducts. 

Performance Date: August 20, 2026

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Lied Recitals 

Matthias Goerne and Markus Hinterhäuser perform Schubert.

Performance Date: July 29, 2026

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Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform music by Schumann, Brahms, and Mandyczewski.

Performance Date: August 7, 2026

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Kate Lindsey brings her Thousands of Miles recital with Baptiste Trotignon. 

Performance Date: August 16, 2026

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Canto Lirico

Michael Spyres and il Pomo d’Oro perform Handel, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Porporra, Rameau, Mazzoni, and Hasse. 

Performance Date: July 27, 2026

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Lea Desandre leads a concert that includes Nicolas Altstaedt, Bruno Philippe, Ensemble Jupiter, and Thomas Dunford.  The program includes music Vivaldi.

Performance Date: July 31, 2026

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Lisette Oropesa and Rubén Fernández Aguirre perform music by Albeniz, Granados, Barbieri, Lecuona, Roig, Rodrigo, and Falla.

Performance Date: August 18, 2026

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Juan Diego Flórez and Vincenzo Scalera lead a program that includes music by Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Jules Massenet, Giuseppe Verdi, François-Adrien Boieldieu and others.

Performance Date: August 30, 2026

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Concerts 

The Utopia Choir and Utopia Orchestra lead a program that includes Part and Kurtag. Teodor Currentzis conducts.

Performance Dates: July 17 & 18, 2026

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Bach’s Mass in B minor will star Perrine Devillers, Sophia Faltas, Kristen Witmer, Victoria Cassano, William Shelton, Raffaele Giordani, Jonathan Hanley, Sebastian Myrus, and Felix Schwandtke. Lionel Meunier conducts the Vox Luminis.

Performance Dates: July 19 & 20, 2026

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The Cantando Admont alongside PHACE and Cordula Bürgi perform music by Morales and Huber. 

Performance Date: July 21, 2026

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Amandine Beyer, Francesco Piemontesi, and Vox Luminis perform Biber and Liszt. Lionel Meunier conducts.

Performance Date: July 21, 2026

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La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations perform Allegri, Carissmi, Mozart, Charpentier, and Vivaldi. Jordi Savall conducts.

Performance Date: July 22, 2026

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Cantando Admont, and Cordula Bürgi and Klangforum Wien perform music by Mansurian, Byrd, Fiser, Desprez, and Ustvolskaya.

Performance Date: July 24, 2026

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Ying Fang and Nadezhda Karyazina star in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Vienna Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel.

Performance Dates: July 25-27, 2026

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Dalia Schaechter, Cantando Admont, Klangforum Wien, and Matthias Pintscher lead a program that includes Kurtag and Feldman.

Performance Date: July 30, 2026

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Anna Prohaska, Noa Frenkel, Jürgen Ruck, Johannes Piirto, and Florian Bogner lead a concert that includes Nono, Kurtag, and Grisey. The Klangforum Wien will be conducted by Matthias Pintscher.

Performance Date: August 1, 2026

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Julia Lezhneva and Carlo Vistoli lead a program of Haydn and Pergolesi with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm.

Performance Date: August 6, 2026

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