OPERA ON THE LAKE 2016 TURANDOT GIACOMO PUCCINI 20 JULY – 21 AUGUST 2016 No man shall ever possess her – the Chinese princess Turandot sets three riddles for every man that comes to woo her. So far none have been able to solve the riddles, and have paid with their heads. n unknown prince achieves the impossible: he cor- rectly answers all three questions. But Turandot A is still unwilling to surrender to him. So the Prince is ready to lay down his life if she can find out his name by morning. Throughout the night, no one may sleep: every- one must try to discover his name ... Calaf‘s aria »Nessun dorma« is what made Giacomo Puccini‘s last opera Turandot world famous. At Bregenz it echoes out into the night against the imposing back- drop of a dragon-shaped wall on Lake Constance. Marco Arturo Marelli‘s stage design makes use of Chinese sym- bols of power. The stage wall is inspired by the world‘s longest man-made structure, the Great Wall of China. At Bregenz the wall is criss-crossed by over two hund- red terracotta warriors, some of them sky-high, others half-submerged in the water. Lyric drama in three acts and five scenes (1926) | Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni | Closing duet and finale completed by Franco Alfano | Sung in Italian with German surtitles PREMIERE 21 July 2016 – 9.15 p.m. PERFORMANCES 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30 & 31 July – 9.15 p.m. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20 & 21 August – 9.00 p.m. Seebühne | Festspielhaus Conductor Paolo Carignani | Giuseppe Finzi Stage director & stage designer Marco Arturo Marelli Costume designer Constance Hoffman Wiener Symphoniker | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Bregenz Festival Choir FESTSPIELHAUS ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS 2016 WIENER SYMPHONIKER 24 July – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Philippe Jordan Mezzo-Soprano Sophie Koch Franz Schubert Symphony in B minor Unfinished D 759 Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony Nr. 7 in A major op. 92 31 July – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Susanna Mälkki Violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja Ludwig van Beethoven Ouverture Fidelio op. 72 Otto M. Zykan Da drunten im Tale Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68 8 August – 7.30 p.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Enrique Mazzola Prague Philharmonic Choir Bregenz Festival Choir Giuseppe Verdi Ouverture La forza del destino Franco Donatoni Duo pour Bruno Gaetano Donizetti Messa di Requiem SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VORARLBERG 21 August – 11.00 a.m. | Festspielhaus Conductor Gérard Korsten Pianist Aaron Pilsan Miroslav Srnka Eighteen Agents (first performance in Austria) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 19 in F major KV 459 Richard Strauss Aus Italien PRICES PRICES Wiener Symphoniker Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg Cat. 1 2 3 4 5 Cat. 1 2 3 4 5 EUR 83 64 50 33 23 EUR 46 39 31 26 18 OPERA AT THE FESTSPIELHAUS HAMLET FRANCO FACCIO t‘s an impetuous, impassioned Hamlet that treads the boards in composer Franco Faccio and librettist Arrigo Boito‘s opera IAmleto (Hamlet), which was first staged in 1865 in Genua. The opera begins in the middle of the coronation ceremony for the new king, Claudio. Hamlet struggles to conceal his dark suspicions that Claudio had his father killed in order to seize his crown and his wife. Faccio and Boito skilfully and effectively challenge the con- ventions of Italian opera, which they wanted to revitalise by infusing it with the spirit of Shakespeare‘s drama. PREMIERE 20 July 2016 – 7.30 p.m. PERFORMANCES 25 & 28 July – 7.30 p.m. Festspielhaus Conductor Paolo Carignani Stage director Olivier Tambosi Stage designer Frank Philipp Schlößmann Costume designer Gesine Völlm Wiener Symphoniker | Prague Philharmonic Choir Opera in four acts (1865) | Libretto by Arrigo Boito | Sung in Italian with German surtitles PRICES Hamlet CATEGORY 1 2 3 4 5 6 EUR 139 124 107 93 49 25 Premiere surcharge: EUR 25 per ticket (categories 1 - 2). For the premiere there is a different seating plan. OPERA STUDIO AT KORNMARKT DON GIOVANNI WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART e fascinates everyone around him but at the same time they despise him. He displays generosity but is conde- Hscending towards others. He commits a murder and is not afraid to confront his own death. The others dearly wish he‘d get his comeuppance, but no sooner is he gone than they miss him. In their timeless opera, Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte fashioned the contradictory and attractive Don Juan into one of the most memorable characters in opera. Death is present from the beginning. It seems Don Giovanni‘s many conquests are behind him now and nothing goes right for him. PREMIERE 15 August 2016 – 7.30 p.m. PERFORMANCES 16, 18 & 20 August – 7.30 p.m. Vorarlberger Landestheater Conductor Hartmut Keil Stage director Barbara Wysocka Stage & costume designer Barbara Hanicka Soloists of the Bregenz Festival Opera Studio | Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg »Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni« | Dramma giocoso in two acts KV 527 (1787) | Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte | Sung in Italian with German surtitles PRICES Don Giovanni CATEGORY 1 2 3 EUR 47 37 26 WERKSTATTBÜHNE STA ATS OPERETTE OTTO M. ZYKAN hat happened in Austrian politics between 1920 and 1938? Which individuals and institutions drove WAustro-fascism? These questions were explored – in sharp-tongued, grotesque and provocative fashion – by composer Otto M. Zykan and stage director Franz Novotny in their television film Staatsoperette. The film was broadcast once only, in 1977, and caused uproar and scandal. It was con- demned by one bishop as an »assault on the religious convic- tions of millions of Austrians« and by the Protestant Press Agency as a »tasteless distortion of Austrian history«. A version for the stage, which at that time was already planned, will now receive its world premiere at the Bregenz Festival. PREMIERE 2 August 2016 – 8.00 p.m. PERFORMANCE 4 August – 8.00 p.m. Werkstattbühne Conductor Walter Kobéra Stage director Simon Meusburger Stage & costume designer Nikolaus Webern Puppets Nikolaus Habjan Wiener Kammerchor | amadeus ensemble-wien »Staatsoperette – The Austrotragedy« In two acts, an adaption by Michael Mautner and Irene Suchy (2015) of »Staatsoperette« by Franz Novotny and Otto M. Zykan (1977) | A coproduction with Neue Oper Wien | World premiere PRICE Staatsoperette EUR 30 WERKSTATTBÜHNE MAKE NO NOISE MIROSLAV SRNKA wo people meet on a disused oil rig. They don‘t know each other; he can‘t see her and she can‘t hear him. T She looks after the injured man in a dispassionate way; he begins to desire the woman that helps him. Both har- bour a dark secret that shapes their lives traumatically. In their inability to open up to another person, they both find a possibility for tentative trust. Isabel Coixet‘s film The Secret Life of Words has been adapted for the stage and the Czech composer Miroslav Srnka has produced a score of great sensitivity. It‘s only in singing that the two main characters Hanna and Joseph find a means of expressing themselves. They dampen down the noise of the outside world by the music that comes from inside them. PREMIERE 17 August 2016 – 8.00 p.m. PERFORMANCE 19 August – 8.00 p.m. Werkstattbühne Conductor Dirk Kaftan Stage director Johannes Erath Stage & costume designer Katrin Connan Ensemble Modern Chamber opera (2011) | Libretto by Tom Holloway after »The Secret Life Of Words« by Isabel Coixet | First perfor- mance in Austria | Sung in English with German surtitles PRICE Make no noise EUR 30 PRICES & SEATING PLAN PRICES Turandot Category 1 2 3 4 5 Sun – Fri | EUR 126 99 79 52 30 Sat | EUR 147 123 99 79 52 Premium Ticket Sun – Fri: EUR 219 | Sat: EUR 229 Festival Lounge Sun – Fri: EUR 308 | Sat: EUR 322 TICKET ORDERS BREGENZER FESTSPIELE GMBH Platz der Wiener Symphoniker 1 | 6900 Bregenz, Österreich T +43 5574 407-6 | F +43 5574 407-400 www.bregenzerfestspiele.com TICKET VALIDITY IF THE OPENAIR PERFORMANCE IS CANCELLED OR TAKES PLACE INDOORS 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. TICKETS FOR CATEGORY 1, FESTIVAL LOUNGE AND PREMIUMTICKETS 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. TICKETS FOR CATEGORIES 2 TO 5 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..