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Join in and find out: Opera for kids

Young People’s Festival 2025 with „Freischütz for Kids” and „Brass Amore”

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Festive lights in the „Freischütz“ village

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A spookily poetic "Freischütz" returns

George Enescu’s opera "Œdipe" to open the 79th Bregenz Festival

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Bregenz Festival welcomes new artistic director

Lilli Paasikivi begins as artistic director on 1 October

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Passion, commitment and inspiration: "Elisabeth Sobotka’s contribution to the development of the Bregenz Festival is incalculable"

Elisabeth Sobotka’s tenure as artistic director, 2015–2024

Provisional attendance figures for 2024

274,000 visitors at the 2024 Bregenz Festival Seven more performances before the festival ends on Sunday

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Special Effects in "Der Freischütz"

All day, preparations go on in the background to ensure everything goes right on the night.

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Rossini, Puccini and the audience underneath an octopus

Opera Studio premiere and Opera Workshop world premiere in August

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"It`s like a pit stop in motor racing"

Stuntwoman Viva Forster (Wired Aerial Theatre) in Bregenz for her fourth production. In "der Freischütz", she has sever

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Attendance figures reach 128,700 at Bregenz Festival already

World premieres & Premieres to come in second half of festival

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Secondary residence: Bregenz, backstage

Why the props department has its own rhythms – and only has lunch at 7 pm

Sandpaper, varnish, paint and thousands of rhinestones

Six costume painters give the "Freischütz" garments their special aged look

“We put day and night on stage”

Five questions for Florian Schmitt, lighting designer of "Der Freischütz"

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