HomeNewsPassion of the Common ManPassion of the Common Man by Daníel Bjarnason and Royce Vavrek will celebrate its world premiere at the Werkstattbühne on 31 July 2026—commissioned by the Bregenzer Festspiele featuring vocal performances by Emma Kajander, Anne Sofie von Otter, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes and Jacques Imbrailo. Additional performance on 1 August 2026.Bach NirvanaIn Bach Nirvana, a unique dialogue between sound and visuality unfolds on the Werkstattbühne, offering a new way to experience selected keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Due to overwhelming demand, an additional performance has been scheduled for 8 August 2026 at 5.00 p.m.Dreamers and the DepartedIn this atmospheric song recital, South-African baritone Jaques Imbrailo guides the audience through the world of dreams, youth, and loss.Eva OllikainenOn 2 August, works by Sibelius and Stravinsky will be featured in the program of the Wiener Symphoniker under the baton of Eva Ollikainen. Guido Sant’Anna will appear as soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.Petr PopelkaOn 10 August, 2026, the Wiener Symphoniker, will perform Deutsch’s Intensity (Austrian premiere), under the baton of Petr Popelka, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.Leo McFallSymphonieorchester VorarlbergDATE 17 August 2025YUM!YUM! is a dazzling and technologically advanced music-theatre experience that combines opera, performance art, and extended reality into a fully immersive spectacle. In a world grotesquely exaggerated and unsettlingly close at once, luxury and scarcity, beauty and decay, satire and reality collide.“If the music is good and I can sing it, I do it!“About experiments and popular music—a conversation with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter Am Rande der WirklichkeitFlavia Mazzanti spielt für YUM! mit Schein und SeinKomponistin gehört – und mitgemeintWiederentdeckt: Die außergewöhnlichsten Komponistinnen des vierten OrchesterkonzertsEin „Hoch!“ gegen die KomfortzoneSpiel im Spiel: Die Figuren von Natalie Baudys neuem Stück under the influence im InterviewMagazine
