Bregenz (dpa/lsw) – In 2023, the Bregenz Festival, which is mainly attended by German guests, will once again be focusing on the most recently successful production of “Madame Butterfly” on the lake stage. The widely praised production also “delivered economically,” said the commercial director of the festival, Michael Diem, on Thursday at the program presentation. A conversion would give visitors more legroom in the future, and the number of seats would drop by 200 to around 6,650. According to the information, a third of the 185,000 tickets for the 26 planned sea performances have already been booked for 2023.
The festival will offer a total of 80 events from July 19 to August 20. This includes the early Verdi opera “Ernani” about love and revenge. The opera, full of beautiful melodies and large choral scenes, has an abstruse plot in which the characters, out of a completely twisted concept of honor, prepare hell on earth for themselves, it is said. “It’s an allegory of the world that creates its own constraints,” says director Elisabeth Sobotka. Resident conductor Enrique Mazzola is responsible for the musical direction, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra playing.
