A highly spectacular production of “Die Zauberflöte” (The Magic Flute) will be presented on the lake stage of the Bregenz Festival during the summers of 2013 and 2014. The direction will be the responsibility of artistic director David Poutney, who is leaving Bregenz after this production. Performances of the magical opera last delighted the audience of the Bregenz Festival in 1985 and 1986.
Also on the programme is the opera “The Merchant of Venice” by the Polish-British composer André Tchaikovsky. The première of the opera based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name is being shown at the Bregenz Festival in the original English version.
You can reserve your stay including a ticket to the festival online. The package deals x and x offer one or two nights’ accommodation in a three-star or four-star hotel in the region. Incidentally, package deal x also includes the Lake Constance Vorarlberg leisure ticket. The ticket is valid as an entrance ticket to the loveliest day-trip destinations the region has to offer and as a bus and train ticket on three consecutive days. The luxurious variant x includes one or two nights’ accommodation, a ticket for the covered festival lounge with aperitif, dinner and several other highlights.
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Enchantingly beautiful Bregenz Festival 2013
When night slowly draws in over Lake Constance and Tamino sings about his freshly roused love for Pamina — “Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön” (This image is enchantingly beautiful) — and the Queen of the Night soon starts singing her famous revenge aria, then there is no denying that you are experiencing great opera. Touching and thrilling at the same time, dramatic and containing amusing components. “The Magic Flute” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most famous operas in the world.
Bregenz Festival
The Bregenz Festival is hosting “The Magic Flute” opera on the lake stage between 17 July and 18 August 2013 (and in the summer of 2014). The work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was last performed on the lake in 1985 and 1986, and is one of the most performed operas on earth.
That which starts like a fairytale becomes a fantastic piece that alternates between a magical farce and freemason mysticism: “The Magic Flute” combines a love story with the major questions of the Enlightenment, presents jolly bird-catcher charm alongside regal vindictiveness and charms the audience with its music alternating between lively melodies and impassioned arias, between breakneck coloraturas and mysterious chorales. Arias such as “Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja” (The bird catcher am I), “Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön” (This image is enchantingly beautiful), “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich” (A girl or a woman) and the aria by the Queen of the Night “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” (Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart) are very well-known.
The opera “The Merchant of Venice” by André Tchaikovsky will be performed in the Festival Theatre in 2013. The programme also includes orchestral concerts, theatre and the contemporary series “Kunst aus der Zeit”.
