(Credit: Anja Koehler) The Bregenz Summer Opera Festival was founded in 1946, just one year after the end of the second World War. It offers a great variety of musical events in four different venues, but it is in the “Seebühne” or floating stage, set in a platform over the Costanze lake where the big opera performances take place in {…}
The Bregenz Festival in Austria issued a statement regarding its 2020 summer season noting it was still set to continue as planned. In a press release the festival said, “As things stand at present, the Bregenz Festival should go ahead as planned from July 22 to August 23 2020. As last year’s production, ‘Rigoletto,’ is returning for its second run {…}
Cinelife Entertainment and CinemaLive are set to showcase “Rigoletto on the Lake” across U.S. Cinemas between Feb. 10-16, 2020. Audiences will get a chance to see the famed production of the Verdi and Piave opera from the Bregenz Festival, which OperaWire called a “feat of creative imagination, combining technical achievement with emotional richness, this interpretation of the Verdi score is {…}
The Bregenzer Festspiele has announced its 2020 season, featuring a lineup of opera and vocal performances. Running from July 22, 2020, to August 23, the festival will be celebrating its 75th anniversary with a diverse and ambitious program. Among the operatic works are Verdi’s “Rigoletto”. Opening July 23, this popular production, directed by Philipp Stolzi and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, {…}
When it comes to presenting a unique experience, Austria’s Bregenz Festival already has a head start: their “floating” stage on Lake Constance is an astonishing setting for operatic performances, which take place immediately after a breathtaking sunset over the opposite shore. The playing area of Bregenz’s stage extends to the lake itself (drowning seems to be the leading cause of {…}
(Photo: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) With the spectacular images coming out of the Bregenz Festival’s mainstage production on Lake Constance, it can be easy to forget that there is other programming going on. But on the nights when the Bodensee is dark, the Vienna Symphony plays concert repertoire in the Festspielhaus under a guest conductor. Monday night featured Verdi’s Messa di {…}
(Credit: Bregenzer Festspiele/ Karl Forster) While “Rigoletto” plays on the Bregenz Festival’s main stage, the famous floating Seebühne on Lake Constance in western Austria, the Festspielhaus offers a chance to see “Don Quichotte,” Massenet’s poignant adaptation of Miguel Cervantes’s immortal novel, “Don Quixote.” The Best Men Can Be The new production, directed by Mariame Clément, might seem disorienting on paper. It {…}
In July and August 2017, the Italian mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa will sing the role of Bizet’s “Carmen” in Kasper Holten’s new production. The opera will be conducted by Paolo Carignani and Jordan de Souza at the floating stage. Regarding her portrayal of Carmen, Stroppa noted, “Carmen is an exceptionally multifaceted role. She is strong, charismatic and determined, and at the same {…}