A Total of 23 "Turandot" Performances in 2016

First night tickets on sale now
70 Years of the Bregenz Festival

Bregenz, 4.11.15. Next year's festival will soon be not far off: on18 November the Bregenz Festival presents the complete programme of the 2016 season. From that day it will be possible to order tickets for all scheduled events, not just the performances of Turandot on the lake stage, Hamlet the opera in the Festspielhaus as well as the orchestral concerts which have been on sale online. Tickets to the premieres on the lake stage and in the Festspielhaus have now gone on sale.

Extra performance on 3 August 2016

In her second year, too, Princess Turandot remains very much in demand. While the technical department has been making the lake stage winter-proof, the festival management has raised the number of performances of the opera next season from 22 to 23. The extra date is Wednesday, 3 August 2016. The management has taken the decision at this early stage because of the level of demand, says Commercial Director Michael Diem. "At the moment about a quarter of the 156,000 available tickets for Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's final opera are already booked. That makes us optimistic about continuing demand." Tickets for the 2016 festival went on sale on the final day of last season, although first night tickets were excluded from advance sales, as is always the case.

The Bregenz Festival website has even more to offer than top-quality arts performances. Find out about a wide range of accompanying activities such as introductory talks, food and drink on the festival grounds, and travel arrangements including arrival at the show by ship. Seventy years after it was founded, the summer festival on the Austrian (Vorarlberg) shore of Lake Constance has a programme for the 2016 season that comprises about 80 events, all bookable from 18 November.

For those who can't wait until next summer, a sneak preview of Turandot is available right now, from an unusual perspective. For the first time, the Bregenz Festival has filmed a few sequences on the lake stage from the air using a remote-controlled drone camera. You can watch some short clips from the drone's film here.

And if you want to enjoy the opera in its entirety and its full glory in your home cinema, you can buy the DVD of Turandot from the Festival Shop. It was filmed last summer on the lake stage using eleven cameras.

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12.08.2010

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