OPERA ON THE LAKE Premiere July 20, 2011 – 9.15 p.m.

Further performancesJuly 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and 31 – 9.15 p.m.August 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 – 9.00 p.m.

Duration: 2 hours without break

Floating Stage/Festival Opera House

Musical director: Ulf Schirmer, Enrico Calesso

Director: Keith Warner

Stage: David Fielding

Costumes: Constance Hoffman

Choreography: Lynne Page

Light: Wolfgang Göbbel

Acoustic: Wolfgang Fritz

Director Prague Philharmonic Choir: Lukáš Vasilek

Director Bregenz Festival Chorus: Benjamin Lack

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Music: Umberto Giordano; Libretto: Luigi IllicaHolder of the performance rights: Casa Musicale Sonzogno, MilanoTheatrical distributor for Austria: Josef Weinberger Wien, Ges.m.b.H

Opera in four acts, sung in

Italian. Music by Umberto

Giordano. Libretto by Luigi

Illica.

André Chénier, the most famous work by the Italian composer Umberto Giordano, is a brilliantly vivid histori-cal drama and a human

tragedy of shattering intensity. Set against the background of the French Revolution, the ope-ra has strong appeal both as a passionate love story and as a historical thriller. André Chénier is based on the life of a real historical character, a French poet who got caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, fi rst as an ardent sup-porter and then as a victim, mercilessly per-secuted and ultimately sent to the guillotine.

Giordano’s music is charged with a furious enthusiasm and stirring emotions. Historical

dances and marches from the time before the French Revolution can be heard in the opera as well as classic revolutionary songs including „Ça ira“ and the Marseillaise.

„It seems as though André Chénier was composed especially for the Bregenz Seebühne. The opera presents a perfect mix of ingredients for the ve-nue: a thrilling story and three strong characters, caught between the excesses of the Ancien Ré-gime and the terror of the French Revolution. There is André Chénier, an idealistic poet, and his adversary Carlo Gérard, once a servant and now a revolutionary ringleader. And there is the young noblewoman Maddalena, who is fl eeing from the rebels, aided by her maidservant, who sacrifi ces herself as a prostitute in order to sup-port her mistress. Giordano’s music is verismo of the very highest calibre and drives the high voltage plot forward with breathtaking speed.“

Artistic director, David Pountney

Festival-Lounge

A memorable evening for Festival connoisseursThe Festival-Lounge offers you and your guests all the privileges and comforts of an exclusive evening at the Bregenz Festival. As lounge guest, a parking place is reserved for you. First our lounge hosts welcome you with a glass of spar-kling wine and then take you on a tour back- stage where you will learn all about the festival. Then comes the culinary highlight – the festivaldinner. After this, equipped with Swarovski operaglasses and an evening programme you take your

Premium-Ticket

VIP-Comfort for individualistsWith a Premium-Ticket you and your guests be-ne fi t from special services which will make your visit to the festival a very memorable occasion. When you arrive a parking place will have been reser ved for you, and you will be welcomed by our hosts in the lounge with its covered viewing area and upholstered seating. Swarovski opera glasses and an evening programme will be all ready for you. Your festival evening ends with a farewell drink. In the event of cancellation of the lake performance, Premium Tickets are also valid for the semi-staged version of André Chénier in the Festspielhaus

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Guided tours: From July 20, guided tours take place daily at 11.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. (the number of tickets is limited). Between 3 June and 15 July guided tours take place every Friday at 4 p.m. Some tours may be restricted because of rehearsals or performances.

Introductory talk: 7 and 7.30 p.m. in the Festspielhaus

Tickets for category 1, the Festival-Lounge and Premium-Tickets are valid for the semi-staged version of André Chénier and shall not be refundet if a lake performance is cancelled or plays for less than 90 minutes.Tickets for categories 2 to 5 are valid only for lake performances. If the performance is transferred to the Festspielhaus, ticket holders will be refunded the ticket value if the opern-air performance does not take place at all or is abandoned after less than 60 minutes. Bregenz Festival policy is to proceed with open-air performances even if the weather looks inclement, and we wish to stress that performances will go ahead on the Seebühne even in the event of light rain. We therefore recommend visitors to bring waterproof clothing, but not umbrellas, because these obscure the view.

Prices: André Chénier Category 1 2 3 4 5 Sun – Thu EUR 112 90 70 48 28Fri, Sat EUR 132 110 90 70 48

Premium-Ticket Sun – Thu EUR 190 Fri, Sat EUR 205 Festival-Lounge Sun – Thu EUR 272 Fri, Sat EUR 288

seat in the comfortable, covered viewing area of the Festival Lounge to enjoy the opera on the lake. You will receive a souvenir photo to remind you of the special event. Your Festival evening ends with a farewell drink. In the event of can-cellation of the lake performance, Festival-Lounge Tickets are also valid for the semi-staged version of André Chénier in the Festspielhaus.

Opera on the lakeJuly 20 to August 21, 2011

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Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra / Goethe

August 14 – 11.00 a.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Gérard Korsten

P. Dukas: The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice

J. Weir: Natural History

F. Liszt: A Faust-Symphony

Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra / Judith Weir Portrait

20. August – 7.30 a.m., Theater am Kornmarkt

Dirigent: Nicholas Collon

J. Weir: Piano Concerto

J. Weir: woman.life.song

Prices: Vorarlberg Symphony Ochestra Category 1 2 3 4 5 EUR 40 35 28 22 16

World premiere/new commissionText and music by Judith Weir after a Sicilian folk tale. Sung in English with German surtitles.

The fi rst in a series of newly commissioned ope-ras to be performed at the Festspielhaus in the co-ming summer is the opera Achterbahn (Miss For-tune) by the British composer Judith Weir, jointly commissioned and co-produced by the Bregenz Festival and the Royal Opera Covent Garden.

The new opera was inspired by and based on an Italian folk tale called Sfortuna. It tells of a young woman whose wealthy family suddenly meets hard times. She decides to make her own way in the world, trying to exist by working in gruelling occupations. Each time her luck seems to turn for the better, she is thrown by another misfortune. Later, however, she makes the acquaintance of the personifi cation of her own Fate and after this, her life changes for the better.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS

Achterbahn (Miss Fortune) is a tale about fate, a kind of parable about the ups and downs of life – and about how we are often incapable of jud-ging the various trials of life in the moment they happen.

Judith Weir is one of the most interesting compo-sers to have come out of Great Britain in recent years. Her great interest in folklore and folk mu-sic — of Scotland, where her parents come from, but also such places as Iceland, India and China — has decisively infl uenced her very personal and original style. Many of Weir’s stage works are ba-sed on fantastical and dreamlike folk tales, refl ec-ting her fascination and passion for storytelling.

Christopher MouldsKirill PetrenkoXian ZhangGérard KorstenSir Mark Elder

The Omsk born Kirill Petrenko, the Briton Chri-stopher Moulds and the Chinese conductor Xian Zhang, three conductors who have previously given concerts at the Bregenzer Festspiele to great acclaim, return to conduct the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In addition on, two con-secutive days the Hallé Orchestra can be heard: Great Britain‘s oldest professional symphony or-chestra under its chief conductor Sir Mark Elder will perform for the fi rst time in Bregenz.

Kirill Petrenko is one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation. Born in 1972 in Omsk, western Siberia, he moved to Austria in 1990 and studied at the conservatory in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, and at the Academy of Music in Vienna. Today, Petrenko is in demand at major opera houses and orchestras around the world.

Christopher Moulds studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music in London. Since then he has worked at English National Opera, the Royal Opera Covent Garden and at the Salzburg Festival.

The young Chinese conductor Xian Zhang is one of the still very small number of women con-ductors with an international reputation. Since her debut at Beijing Opera House, her interna-tional career has truly taken off: she regularly conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and has been invited to be guest conductor of orchestras like the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Premiere July 21, 2011 - 7.30 p.m.

Further performances

July 24 – 11.00 a.m.

July 28 – 7.30 p.m.

FestspielhausCo-production and co-commission with the Royal Opera House

Covent Garden, London

Musical Director: Paul DanielDirector: Chen Shi-ZhengStage: Tom PyeCostumes: Han FengLight: Scott ZielinskiVideo: Leigh SachwitzDirector Prague Philharmonic Choir: Lukáš VasilekVienna Symphony Orchestra

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

July 25 – 7.30 p.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Christopher Moulds

J. Hadyn: The Creation – Oratorio in three parts

Lord Byron

August 1 - 7.30 p.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko

H. Berlioz: Le Corsaire – Overture, op. 21

A. Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon, op. 41

C. M. von Weber: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

No. 1 in f minor, op. 73

P. I. Tchaikovsky: Manfred-Symphony, op. 58

August 7 – 11.00 a.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Xian Zhang

D. Glanert: Insomnium

F. Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, A major

R. Strauss: Thus spake Zarathustra op.30

Curated by Detlev Glanert

Hallé Orchestra

Michelangelo

August 15 – 7.30 p.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Sir Mark Elder

D. Shostakovich: Suite on Verses by Michelangelo

Buonarroti for bass and orchestra, op. 145a

P. I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Shakespeare

August 16 – 7.30 Uhr, Festspielhaus

Conductor: Sir Mark Elder

E. Elgar: Falstaff, Symphonic study for orchestra, op. 68

E. Elgar: Symphony No. 1, op 55 in A-fl at major

Prices: Achterbahn (Miss Fortune) Category 1 2 3 4 5 EUR 95 80 65 50 40

A supplement of EUR 25 is to be paid on July 21 (category 1-3).More information on www. bregenzerfestspiele.com

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Prices: Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra Category 1 2 3 EUR 40 28 16

Subject to change: November 2010

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