CARMEN the Festival Lounge Offers You and Your Guests Every ORCHESTRAL Opportunity for an Exclusive Evening at the Bregenz Festival

OPERA ON THE LAKE FESTIVAL LOUNGE FESTSPIELHAUS CARMEN The Festival Lounge offers you and your guests every ORCHESTRAL opportunity for an exclusive evening at the Bregenz Festival. GEORGES BIZET Our hostesses welcome you with an aperitif and then take CONCERTS you on a backstage tour during which you can find out all about the Bregenz Festival. After this comes the culinary OPERA ON THE LAKE 2017 | 18 WIENER 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 SYMPHONIKER S Carmen. The soldier Don José is ordered to detain area of the Festival Lounge. After the show you can relax and 24 July – 7.30 p.m. | Festspielhaus reflect on the evening over a farewell drink. Conductor Antonio Méndez CARMEN her after a fight but she twists him around her finger. He is - arrested for his weakness but is soon released. He sees the Piano Javier Perianes GEORGES BIZET flower she threw at him as a token of her love and dreams of Claude Debussy Iberia. Images for orchestra, no. 2 spending his life with her, even at the cost of losing his rank Manuel de Falla Nights in the Garden of Spain Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major and status. He hides out with her band of smugglers, ignores Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2 Micaëla’s words of warning, and even imagines he’s more than a match for Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter. The latter, 30 July – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus however, has long since captured Carmen’s heart, making Conductor Philippe Jordan Don José mad with jealousy ... with Martina Serafin, Andreas Schager, Kwangchul Youn Richard Wagner Siegfried-Idyll George Bizet’s most successful opera is directed by Kasper Richard Wagner The Valkyrie Act One Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House in Lon-

don. It will be staged with a set designed by British artist Es pigrafik 7 August – 7.30 p.m. | Festspielhaus Devlin, who has designed sets for pop stars like Adele, U2, the Conductor Constantinos Carydis Pet Shop Boys and Kanye West. Percussion Dimitris Desyllas Ernest Guiraud Chasse fantastique, symphonic poem PREMIERE PREMIUM TICKET Minas Borboudakis Cassiopeia for percussion and strings 19 July 2017 – 9.15 p.m. Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique 7 30 40 50 A Premium Ticket offers special privileges to make your visit PERFORMANCES

to the Bregenz Festival a memorable occasion for you and 6 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30 July – 9.15 p.m. 50 60 70 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, your friends. Our hostesses welcome you to the Lounge, a VORARLBERG

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19 & 20 August – 9.00 p.m. 65 75 85 20 August – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Seebühne | Festspielhaus at the festival ends with a farewell drink plus finger food. Conductor Gérard Korsten 4 85 95 105 Violin Paweł Zalejski Conductor Paolo Carignani | Jordan de Souza Viola Piotr Szumieł

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oses causes darkness to envelop Egypt in order to young boy says he wants to travel by boat to the light- igaro’s bride-to-be Susanna is supposed to spend the hen Hebrew and Arabic speakers talk about the reed, power, servitude, love, deceit, murder, finally bring about the Israelites’ release from capti- house. »Yes, of course,« his mother responds, »if it's first night not with him, but with the count he works political situation in the Middle East, they refer betrayal, downfall – Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Mvity. The Pharaoh eventually relents and proclaims A fine tomorrow«. But father cuts them short by saying, Ffor? Figaro uses all his cunning and exploits the con- Wto it simply as »the situation«. Resident director GNibelung brings all the passions and calamities of they will be set free. His son, however, doesn’t want to lose a »It won't be fine". The boy wishes there was an axe handy so he fused emotional state of the people around him, to prevent at Berlin‘s Maxim Gorki Theater, Yael Ronen, puts her last human life onto the stage. The Dutch theatre company 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 to make the Pharaoh change his mind. His plan works. So Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera contains comic scheming, Neukölln district. The course participants have all come at the Festspielhaus, transforms Wagner’s gigantic work Thoughts and feelings, unarticulated and unutterable – inner Moses prays to his God for a more brutal kind of help. 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 voices like these form the core of Virginia Woolf's novel To the since 2011. From Israel and Palestine, where the political world of insects. The story that spans four evenings in 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 and social climate has been growing ever more militant. the original is here told compactly in 90 minutes, while 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 No wonder, then, that in German teacher Stefan’s class Wagner’s colossal score is played by 21 instrumentalists. 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 German grammar poses the least problem of all. Yael Ronen In Wagner’s operas, the Nibelung Alberich can change 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 actors who have come to Berlin from Syria, Palestine shape using the »tarnhelm«, and many insects do that 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- and Israel explore the paradoxes of re-encountering too in this version: the caterpillar metamorphosing into a offered at a series of insight sessions organised by the Opera ted production of Così fan tutte. »neighbours« as well as ghosts from their past. butterfly, the nymph into a grasshopper. Whereas three PREMIERE Workshop at Kunsthaus Bregenz and starting in May 2015, and Rhine Maidens guard the gold in Wagner, Hotel Modern 20 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m. now the finished opera will receive its world premiere. PREMIERE PREMIERE have three jellyfish guarding an already forged ring. PERFORMANCES 14 August 2017 – 7.30 p.m. 26 July 2017 – 7.30 p.m. 23 July – 11.00 a.m. & 31 July – 7.30 p.m. PREMIERE PERFORMANCES All the marionettes, puppets and landscapes for the PERFORMANCE Festspielhaus 16 August 2017 – 8.00 p.m. 15, 17 & 19 August – 7.30 p.m. production have been created with great love of detail by 27 July – 7.30 p.m. PERFORMANCE Vorarlberger Landestheater Hotel Modern. These actors and backdrops will be filmed Conductor Enrique Mazzola Vorarlberger Landestheater 18 August – 8.00 p.m. live and projected on a magnified scale during the perfor- Stage director Lotte de Beer Conductor Hartmut Keil Werkstattbühne Stage director Yael Ronen mance. A highly unusual piece of music theatre. Set and costume designer Christof Hetzer Stage director Jörg Lichtenstein

Theatre company Hotel Modern Set designer Tal Shacham Conductor Claire Levacher Set and costume designer Nikolaus Webern Costume designer Amit Epstein Stage music in cooperation with Vorarlberg Conservatory | Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg PREMIERE Stage director Ernst Marianne Binder Music Yaniv Fridel, Ofer Shabi Prague Philharmonic Choir | Wiener Symphoniker | Set designer Jakob Kolding 29 July 2017 – 8.00 p.m. Costume designer Vibeke Andersen Opera buffa in four acts | Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte | In English, German, Hebrew and Arabic with German and PERFORMANCE Tragic-sacred drama in three acts (1818/19) | Libretto by Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg Sung in Italian with German surtitles English surtitles | Guest performance of the Maxim Gorki 30 July – 8.00 p.m. Andrea Leone Tottola | Sung in Italian with German surtitles Theater, Berlin | Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin Werkstattbühne Chamber opera in three parts | Libretto by Ernst Marianne PRICES The Marriage of Figaro PRICES Moses in Egypt Binder after the novel by Virginia Woolf | Sung in English Hotel Modern PRICES The Situation CATEGORY 1 2 3 4 5 6 with German surtitles | World premiere CATEGORY 1 2 3 Netherlands Wind Ensemble CATEGORY 1 2 3 EUR 142 127 109 95 50 26 EUR 48 38 27 PRICE The Ring in 90 minutes EUR 31 Premiere surcharge: EUR 25 per ticket (categories 1 - 2). Different seating plan. PRICE To the Lighthouse EUR 31 EUR 34 28 22