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Janáček’s opera “The Excursions of Mr Brouček” at the Festspielhaus in 2026

Vienna/Bregenz, 3 June 2025. Next week rehearsals begin for the first Festspielhaus production under artistic director Lilli Paasikivi – George Enescu’s monumental opera Œdipe. But preparations are already well underway for the festival in 2026, when The Excursions of Mr Brouček by Czech composer Leoš Janáček will be the opera at the Festspielhaus. The new production of the work, which was first staged in Prague in 1920, will open at the Bregenz Festival on 23 July 2026. One day earlier, on 22 July 2026, the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata on the lake stage will raise the curtain on the 80th season of the festival.