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29-553: Bregenzer Festspiele ( German pronunciation: [ˌbreːɡɛntsɐ ˈfɛst.ʃpiːlə] ; Bregenz Festival ) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz in Vorarlberg ( Austria ). It features a large floating stage which is situated on Lake Constance . The Festival became an international event in its first year 1946, one year after World War II . People from Germany, Switzerland and France came to

58-445: A budget of around EUR 20 million. The program changes every two years. In addition to the performances on the lake stage, orchestral concerts and operas also take place in the adjacent festival theatre. There is also a children's and youth program during and before the beginning of the festival. The lake stage ( Seebühne ) is the largest open-air lake stage theatre in the world, with an audience capacity of around 7,000. Since 2014,

87-550: A form of High Alemannic is spoken around the Rheintal as well. High Alemannic is traditionally subdivided in an Eastern and Western language area ( Sprachraum ), marked by the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line across the cantons of Aargau and Lucerne ( Luzern ). Eastern High Alemannic includes Zurich German , Lucerne German, and the dialects of Eastern Switzerland . Western High Alemannic includes Bernese German ,

116-660: A series of battles in 15 BC, the Romans conquered Brigantion and the city became a Roman camp. It was conferred the status of a municipality ( Brigantium ) around 50 AD and was the seat of the Roman admiralty for Lake Constance. In 259/60 Brigantium was destroyed by the Alemanni , Germanic peoples who settled in the area in around 450. From 610 to 612 Saint Columbanus and Saint Gall worked as missionaries in Bregenz. From 917 onwards

145-455: A series of popular Puccini works. La Bohème was the first Puccini performance in 2001/02, followed by Tosca in 2007/08 and most recently Turandot in 2015 and 2016, Madame Butterfly in 2021/22 will be the fourth opera by the Italian composer to be performed in Bregenz. The festival offers guided tours from May to August. The Bregenzer Festspiele had to cancel the 2020 festival due to

174-797: Is twinned with: Vorarlbergisch The High Alemannic dialects are spoken in Liechtenstein and in most of German-speaking Switzerland ( Swiss Plateau ), except for the Highest Alemannic dialects in the Swiss Alps and for the Low Alemannic ( Basel German ) dialect in the North West. Therefore, High Alemannic must not be confused with the term " Swiss German ", which refers to all Alemannic dialects of Switzerland as opposed to Swiss variant of Standard German ,

203-666: Is as follows: Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (postponed performance) A visitor survey showed that the Lake Stage audience's origin is the following: 63 % Germany, 23 % Austria, 11 % Switzerland/Liechtenstein, 3 % other countries. The Bregenzer Festspiele has the following seating capacities: This adds up to a total of 11,735 seats. 47°30′18″N 9°44′16″E  /  47.50500°N 9.73778°E  / 47.50500; 9.73778 Bregenz Bregenz ( German: [ˈbʁeːɡɛnts] ; Vorarlbergian : Breagaz [ˈb̥rea̯ɡ̊ats] )

232-623: Is home to four Gymnasium secondary schools, a commercial college (HAK), a technical college (HTL), upper secondary business schools (Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe), three Berufsschulen (vocational schools), crafts colleges, the Academy of Social Sciences, and a nursing school. Others include: an adult education centre, school boarding houses, state archives, a state library, a state museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz (modern arts centre), Künstlerhaus (art centre), Thurn und Taxis Palace, five monasteries, Heimatwerk (autonomous institution fostering

261-636: Is important; a major attraction is the Bregenz Festival (since 1946, floating stage since 1949, modernised in 1979, Festival and Congress Hall in 1980), winter sports on the Pfänder mountain. The annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele is world-famous, taking place in July and August each year on and around a stage on Lake Constance . This festival attracts more than 150,000 people every year to Bregenz (2011: 166,453, 2016: 159,172) and has

290-479: Is the capital of Vorarlberg , the westernmost state of Austria . The city lies on the east and southeast shores of Lake Constance , the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe , between Switzerland in the west and Germany in the northwest. Bregenz is located on a plateau falling in a series of terraces to the lake at the foot of Pfänder mountain. It is a junction of the arterial roads from

319-655: The Arlberg massif. Since 1726, Bregenz has been the main seat of Austrian administration in Vorarlberg ( Obervogtei , in 1786 Kreisamt , since 1861 seat of the Landtag, since 1918 seat of the Landeshauptmann ). Rieden-Vorkloster and Fluh were incorporated into Bregenz in 1919 and 1946, respectively. The town was bombed by the Allies in 1945, and 72 houses were destroyed. Sights in the district of Vorkloster include

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348-659: The Bregenz Jazz Festival has been held every year in June at the Kornmarktplatz. It is the successor of the New Orleans Festival , which took place from 1999 to 2013, during the early summer, in the inner city of Bregenz, and which was no longer supported by the initiator Markus Linder. In addition to the change of name, there was also a musical genre change from blues to jazz. The location and

377-500: The COVID-19 pandemic . The performances of Rigoletto and the opera Nero have been postponed to 2021. The festival presents a wide variety of musical and theatrical events in the following venues: Throughout the seasons, the festival puts on many different performances; from operas to plays and orchestral pieces. The performances range in theme and story and many are performed in consecutive seasons. The full list of shows performed

406-698: The Rhine valley to the German Alpine foothills, with cruise ship services on Lake Constance. It is famous for the annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele , as well as the dance festival Bregenzer Spring . The first settlements date from 1500 BC. The Brigantii are mentioned by Strabo as a Celtic sub-tribe in this region of the Alps. In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled at Brigantion , which became one of their most heavily fortified locations. After

435-474: The 20th century", and The Art of Our Times program, also known as KAZ, that brought together contemporary theatre with Workshop Theatre while collaborating with Hamburg's Thalia Theater. Other add-ons that the festival created for more variety and entertainment are the Children's Festival, the opera and band workshops, and family and school-group concerts. From December 2003 until 2014, David Pountney has been

464-957: The Maria Hilf parish church (1925–1931, by C. Holzmeister, interior from 1980) and the Cistercian monastery of Mehrerau . On the Gebhardsberg rock are remains of the fortress of Hohenbregenz (destroyed by the Swedes in 1647). Bregenz is the seat of the Vorarlberg State Assembly ( Landtag ), and of most of the provincial authorities/institutions of Vorarlberg (e.g. school superintendent, police headquarters, department of human resources development (AMS), Office for Environmental Protection, Chamber of Labour, Economics Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture, Chamber of Pharmacists, military regional headquarters, military garrison, one of

493-471: The S1 and S3 regional train services of Vorarlberg S-Bahn , S7 service of St. Gallen S-Bahn , REX 1 and long-distance EuroCity and Railjet trains, while the other two stations are only served by regional trains (S1, S3, REX 1). The regional train services are also part of Bodensee S-Bahn . The Pfänderbahn is an aerial tram to Pfänder mountain, with its valley station located in Bregenz. Bregenz

522-554: The artistic director of the festival. Over April and May 2008, scenes for the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace were filmed on the Seebühne during a performance of Tosca and in June 2008 the German broadcasting corporation ZDF hosted its 2008 European Football Championship live broadcast studio on the floating stage. In 2010, the festival offered about 100 performances that drew an audience of close to 200,000. 2015

551-548: The castle served as a residence of the Udalrichinger (ruling dynasty of Vorarlberg), who called themselves Counts of Bregenz . The house died out around 1150. The son of the first Ulrich was Saint Gebhard , born in 947. He became the Bishop of Konstanz . In around 1170 Hugo of Tübingen (Montfort) founded a town settlement (first documented in 1249), enlarged it in the 13th and 14th centuries and from 1650 to 1652. The city

580-546: The festival. Two stages were created out of floating barges. One barge for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the other barge for carrying stage structures. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra is the biggest contributor to the Festival. This orchestra has a performance spot every year since the beginning of the festival. They have their own stage area and other venues used thorough out the festival. Every year

609-751: The literary language of diglossic German-speaking Switzerland. In Germany , High Alemannic dialects are spoken in Southern Baden-Württemberg , i.e. the Markgräflerland and in the adjacent area south of Freiburg im Breisgau up to the Black Forest ( Schönau ). It is also spoken in the southern Sundgau region beyond the Upper Rhine , which is part of Alsace , France . In Vorarlberg in Western Austria ,

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638-530: The main hospitals of the province (Landeskrankenhaus), as well as a sanatorium, farmers' health and social insurance office, VLV (Mutual Fire Insurance Institute). A consulate-general of Turkey, and honorary consulates of Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, and Switzerland are located in Bregenz. Honorary consulates of Finland and the United Kingdom are located in nearby Lauterach , and an honorary consulate of Brazil in nearby Hard . Bregenz

667-468: The manufacturing of traditional craft products), and various newspapers. Festival and Congress centre, Theater am Kornmarkt, casino, harbour for sailing boats and yachts, cable car up onto the Pfänder mountain. The economy is mainly dominated by small businesses in the services, trade and industry sectors: these include the textile industry ( Wolford AG), fittings manufacturer Julius Blum GmbH, glass processing and machine construction. Bi-seasonal tourism

696-472: The municipality. Bregenz railway station is an intermediate stop on the Vorarlberg railway line ( Vorarlbergbahn ), which traverses Vorarlberg in a north-south direction. The harbour of Bregenz is adjacent to Bregenz Hafen railway station , which is situated on the same railway line. A third station, Bregenz Riedenburg is situated further south on the Vorarlberg line. Bregenz station is called at by

725-487: The orchestra has a different conductor for each piece because it is considered the conductors performance. Kornmarktplatz, vorarlberg museum is the venture they are using for the 2016 Festival. In 2001, the festival created a handful of contemporary arts events to go along with their usual performances. These events were a new collaboration with the Kunsthaus Bregenz that revolved around the theme of "America of

754-589: The timing stayed roughly the same. Since 1987, Bregenzer Spring , a dance festival, has been held every year between March and June in the Festival Hall of Bregenz (Festspielhaus). Dance ensembles from all over the world perform their new productions, along with Austrian premieres. With a budget of around EUR 500,000 and up to 10,000 visitors, Bregenzer Spring is one of the most important dance festivals in Austria. There are three railway stations within

783-414: Was mostly fully booked with a total audience number of 193,642 people, already including the dress rehearsal and crossculture night. In 2018, the Bregenz Festival broke its own record: With 270,000 visitors in only 5 weeks, the festival attained a new attendance record. It attracted 400,000 people in total when the programme featured Bizet 's Carmen in 2017 and 2018. The Bregenz Festival continues to show

812-543: Was sold in 1451, and again in 1523, to the Habsburgs and continued under Austrian rule, with a brief occupation by Swedish forces under Carl Gustaf Wrangel during the 30 Years' War , until the 19th century. Bregenz was under Bavarian rule from 1805 to 1814. From 1842 to 1850, the harbour on Lake Constance was built, then enlarged in 1883 and from 1889 to 1891, and Austrian ship service was inaugurated in 1884. Railway services have existed since 1872, and since 1884 across

841-499: Was the first year for Elisabeth Sobotka as artistic director. She started with 80 events and by end of August 2015, further founded the Opera Studio with the goal "to help young singers with their professional and personal development in a highly professional environment and also to create a staging that the audience will really enjoy". The season of year drew an audience of approx. 257,000. Carmen proved to be very popular and

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