Carmen - Opera on the lake

OPERA ON THE LAKE

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The Festival Lounge offers you and your guests every opportunity for an exclusive evening at the Bregenz Festival.

Our hostesses welcome you with an aperitif and then take you on a backstage tour during which you can find out all about the Bregenz Festival. After this comes the culinary

he’s desired by all and is an object of fascination for the

highlight of the evening, the festival dinner. Then you will be

soldiers on guard duty as they smoke and play cards:

conducted to your upholstered seat in the covered viewing

Carmen. The soldier Don José is ordered to detain

area of the Festival Lounge. After the show you can relax and

her after a fight but she twists him around her finger. He is

WIENER SYMPHONIKER

reflect on the evening over a farewell drink.

arrested for his weakness but is soon released. He sees the flower she threw at him as a token of her love and dreams of spending his life with her, even at the cost of losing his rank and status. He hides out with her band of smugglers, ignores Micaëla’s words of warning, and even imagines he’s more than a match for Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter. The latter, however, has long since captured Carmen’s heart, making Don José mad with jealousy ...

Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House in London. It will be staged with a set designed by British artist Es

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George Bizet’s most successful opera is directed by Kasper

Devlin, who has designed sets for pop stars like Adele, U2, the

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TICKET ORDERS

Festival Lounge Sun – Thu: EUR 325 | Fri: EUR 335 | Sat: EUR 345

Premium Ticket Sun – Thu: EUR 230 | Fri: EUR 240 | Sat: EUR 250

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Mérimeé | Sung in French with German sur titles

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and Ludovic Halévy based on the shor t novel by Prosper

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Opera in four acts (1875) | Libretto by Henri Meilhac pigrafik

1 9 J U LY – 2 0 AU G UST 2017

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Children’s choir of Musikmittelschule Bregenz-Stadt | Wiener Symphoniker |

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Bregenz Festival Choir | Prague Philharmonic Choir |

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Costume designer Anja Vang Kragh

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Set designer Es Devlin

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Stage director Kasper Holten

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Conductor Paolo Carignani | Jordan de Souza

Sun – Thu | EUR 130

at the festival ends with a farewell drink plus finger food.

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covered viewing area with ­upholstered seating. Your evening

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your friends. Our hostesses welcome you to the Lounge, a

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Seebühne | Festspielhaus

to the Bregenz Festival a memorable occasion for you and

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21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30 July – 9.15 p.m.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 August – 9.00 p.m.

A Premium Ticket offers special privileges to make your visit

CATEGORY

PERFORMANCES

PREMIUM TICKET

PRICES Carmen

PREMIERE 19 July 2017 – 9.15 p.m.

PRICES & SEATING PLA N

Pet Shop Boys and Kanye West.

TI CKE T VA LI DI T Y I F THE OP EN AIR PER FOR M AN C E IS C A NCE LL ED OR TAKES PL ACE IN D O ORS Bregenz Festival policy is to proceed with open-air performances even if the weather looks inclement, and we wish to stress that performances will go ahead on the lake even in the event of light rain. We therefore recommend visitors bring waterproof clothing, but not umbrellas, as they obscure the view.

TI CKE TS FOR C ATEG ORY 1, 2, F ESTI VA L LO U NG E AN D PR E M IUMT IC KE TS If the lake performance is cancelled or abandoned after less than 90 minutes, these tickets are valid for the semi-staged version in the Festspielhaus and are not refundable. If the performance is transferred to the Festspielhaus, Category 1 seats are located in the stalls, Category 2 seats in the circle. Seats that are adjacent in the lake stage auditorium may not be next to each other in the Festspielhaus. TIC KE TS FO R C AT EG OR IES 3 TO 7 are valid only for lake performances. If a performance is transferred to the Festspielhaus, ticket holders will be refunded the ticket value if the open-air performance does not take place at all or is abandoned after less than 60 minutes.

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FESTIVAL LOUNGE

24 July – 7.30 p.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Antonio Méndez Piano Javier Perianes

Claude Debussy Iberia. Images for orchestra, no. 2 Manuel de Falla Nights in the Garden of Spain Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2 30 July – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Philippe Jordan with Martina Serafin, Andreas Schager, Kwangchul Youn

Richard Wagner Siegfried-Idyll Richard Wagner The Valkyrie Act One 7 August – 7.30 p.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Constantinos Carydis Percussion Dimitris Desyllas

Ernest Guiraud Chasse fantastique, symphonic poem Minas Borboudakis Cassiopeia for percussion and strings Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VORARLBERG 20 August – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Gérard Korsten Violin Paweł Zalejski Viola Piotr Szumieł

Olivier Messiaen Un sourire Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat major KV 364 (320d) César Franck Symphony in D minor PRICES Wiener Symphoniker CAT.

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OPERA AT THE FESTSPIELHAUS

WERKSTATTBÜHNE

OPERA STUDIO AT KORNMARKT

WERKSTATTBÜHNE

WERKSTATTBÜHNE

MOSES IN EGYPT

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

THE M ARRIAGE OF FIGARO

THE SITUATION

THE RING IN 90 MINUTES

GIOACHINO ROSSINI

ZESSES SEGLIAS

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

YAEL RONEN & ENSEMBLE

RICHARD WAGNER

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they will be set free. His son, however, doesn’t want to lose a

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at Berlin‘s Maxim Gorki Theater, Yael Ronen, puts her last

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Hebrew girl he is secretly in love with and incites a key mover

could kill his father on the spot.

the count from exercising his peculiar aristocratic privilege.

piece development into a German language course in the

Hotel Modern, which is staging the opera Moses in Egypt

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera contains comic scheming,

Neukölln district. The course participants have all come

at the Festspielhaus, transforms Wagner’s gigantic work

erotic recklessness and political dynamite.

to Berlin in recent years. From Syria, where war has raged

into a fascinating piece of miniature theatre set in the

since 2011. From Israel and Palestine, where the political

world of insects. The story that spans four evenings in

and social climate has been growing ever more militant.

the original is here told compactly in 90 minutes, while

No wonder, then, that in German teacher Stefan’s class

Wagner’s colossal score is played by 21 instrumentalists.

German grammar poses the least problem of all. Yael Ronen

In Wagner’s operas, the Nibelung Alberich can change

and actors who have come to Berlin from Syria, Palestine

shape using the »tarnhelm«, and many insects do that

and Israel explore the paradoxes of re-encountering

too in this version: the caterpillar metamorphosing into a

»neighbours« as well as ghosts from their past.

butterfly, the nymph into a grasshopper. Whereas three

oses causes darkness to envelop Egypt in order to finally bring about the Israelites’ release from captivity. The Pharaoh eventually relents and proclaims

to make the Pharaoh change his mind. His plan works. So Moses prays to his God for a more brutal kind of help.

young boy says he wants to travel by boat to the lighthouse. »Yes, of course,« his mother responds, »if it's fine tomorrow«. But father cuts them short by saying,

»It won't be fine". The boy wishes there was an axe handy so he Thoughts and feelings, unarticulated and unutterable – inner voices like these form the core of Virginia Woolf's novel To the

igaro’s bride-to-be Susanna is supposed to spend the first night not with him, but with the count he works for? Figaro uses all his cunning and exploits the con-

fused emotional state of the people around him, to prevent

For this rarely staged opera, the Dutch director Lotte de Beer

Lighthouse. Music creates the space in which what is unsayable

After Così fan tutte in 2015 and Don Giovanni in 2016, the first

has teamed up with the theatre company Hotel Modern –

can resonate. These possibilities fascinate the Greek composer

of the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas will be performed by

which conjures up its own reality using filmed objects and

Zesses Seglias, and together with the stage director and author

young singers in the Bregenz Festival‘s Opera Studio. Staged at

miniature puppets – to present the biblical tale of plagues

Ernst Marianne Binder he has written an opera based on To the

Vorarlberger Landestheater, the work will be directed by Jörg

and the parting of the Red Sea on the Bregenz stage.

Lighthouse. An open window on the creative process has been

Lichtenstein, who thus returns to Bregenz after his celebra-

offered at a series of insight sessions organised by the Opera

ted production of Così fan tutte.

PREMIERE

Workshop at Kunsthaus Bregenz and starting in May 2015, and

20 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m.

now the finished opera will receive its world premiere.

PERFORMANCES 23 July – 11.00 a.m. & 31 July – 7.30 p.m.

Festspielhaus Conductor Enrique Mazzola Stage director Lotte de Beer Set and costume designer C hristof Hetzer Theatre company H otel Modern Stage music in cooperation with Vorarlberg Conservatory | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Wiener Symphoniker | Tragic-sacred drama in three acts (1818/19) | Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola | Sung in Italian with German sur titles

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16 August 2017 – 8.00 p.m.

15, 17 & 19 August – 7.30 p.m.

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Premiere surcharge: EUR 25 per ticket (categories 1 - 2). Different seating plan.

Stage director Jörg Lichtenstein Set and costume designer Nikolaus Webern

Stage director Ernst Marianne Binder

Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg

Set designer Jakob Kolding Costume designer V ibeke Andersen

Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg

Binder after the novel by Virginia Woolf | Sung in English

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Conductor Claire Levacher

Chamber opera in three par ts | Libretto by Ernst Marianne

PRICES Moses in Egypt CATEGORY

PREMIERE

Werkstattbühne

with German surtitles | World premiere

Opera buffa in four acts | Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte | Sung in Italian with German sur titles

to it simply as »the situation«. Resident director

PREMIERE

CATEGORY

reed, power, servitude, love, deceit, murder, betrayal, downfall – Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung brings all the passions and calamities of

human life onto the stage. The Dutch theatre company

have three jellyfish guarding an already forged ring.

26 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m.

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All the marionettes, puppets and landscapes for the production have been created with great love of detail by

27 July – 7.30 p.m.

Vorarlberger Landestheater Stage director Yael Ronen

Hotel Modern. These actors and backdrops will be filmed live and projected on a magnified scale during the performance. A highly unusual piece of music theatre.

Set designer Tal Shacham Costume designer A mit Epstein Music Yaniv Fridel, Ofer Shabi In English, German, Hebrew and Arabic with German and English surtitles | Guest performance of the Maxim Gorki

PREMIERE 29 July 2017 – 8.00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE 30 July – 8.00 p.m.

Theater, Berlin | Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin

Werkstattbühne

PRICES The Situation

Hotel Modern Netherlands Wind Ensemble

PRICES The Marriage of Figaro

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PRICE To the Lighthouse EUR 31

political situation in the Middle East, they refer

Rhine Maidens guard the gold in Wagner, Hotel Modern

PREMIERE 14 August 2017 – 7.30 p.m.

18 August – 8.00 p.m.

hen Hebrew and Arabic speakers talk about the

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PRICE The Ring in 90 minutes EUR 31