Bregenz Festival 2017
Every summer since 1946 the Wiener Symphoniker has been the Orchestra in Residence of the Bregenz Festival. It plays in the opera performances by the lake and in the Festspielhaus, and enriches the festival programme with three orchestral concerts.
More on the history of the Wiener Symphoniker at the Bregenz Festival
This year’s Bregenz Festival revolves around a staging of Carmen, Bizet’s passionate masterpiece, on the Seebühne. But it does not end there: Rossini’s opera Moses in Egypt – in a version by the Dutch director Lotte de Beer – awaits audiences in the Festpielhaus. The first two orchestral concerts this year will be directed in turn by the Spanish conductor Antonio Méndez and the Wiener Symphoniker’s Music Director Philippe Jordan, the latter arriving directly from the Bayreuth Festival to conduct his orchestra in a concertante performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre (‘The Valkyrie’).
For those who cannot make it to Bregenz, some of the productions will be broadcast by the Austrian networks Ö1 and ORF.
But this summer Bregenz, the capital of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, is not only hosting the Wiener Symphoniker as Orchestra in Residence at the Festival but also honouring it with a “Wiener Symphoniker Day” on Sunday 16th July. You can experience orchestral players at close quarters performing in their ensembles at the Kornmarktplatz, the vorarlberg museum and the Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Concert dates