Richard Angas studied in London and Vienna. He worked for many years in Germany and at English National Opera where he was a company principal for fifteen years. Roles included Don Alfonso, Osmin, Bartolo, Sarastro/Speaker‚ König Marke‚ Daland‚ König Heinrich‚ Ochs‚ Pimen, Doctor (Wozzeck)‚ Kecal‚ Mephistopheles‚ Jupiter (Orpheus)‚ and Arkel. More recently he has been seen as Pistol (Garsington)‚ Angelotti and The Bonze (Royal Albert Hall/Gubbay)‚ Doctor (Vanessa) (Lyric Hammersmith)‚ title roles in The Mikado and Don Pasquale (ENO)‚ Jakovlevich The Nose (Netherlands Opera)‚ The Commander From the House of the Dead (Opéra du Rhin) and Aga A Greek Passion (Bregenz Festival and ROH). Recent and future plans include Swallow (Opera North and Zurich)‚ Drebyednyetsov Cheryomushki (Opera North and Bregenz)‚ Basilio‚ Waldner Arabella‚ Cook Love for Three Oranges‚ Tree/Armchair L'enfant et les Sortilleges, Old Adam Ruddigore and Water Sprite Rusalka (Opera North)‚ Pooh-Bah and Private Willis (Grange Park Opera), Count Luisa Miller and Dikoj Kat'a Kabanova (Opera Holland Park), Mikado (ENO)‚ and roles in The Passenger and The Portrait at Bregenz.

A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (2005, with honours). She has taken part in the master classes of Teresa Berganza, Rockwell Blake and Alberto Zedda. She attended Alberto Zedda’s Accademia Rossiniana course in Pesaro in 2003, after which she appeared in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival. She won second prize and the Polish Composer’s Union special prize at the Inter-school Competition of Polish Artistic Song in Warsaw (2001), and second prize (no first prize was awarded) in the oratorio/lieder category and a special prize at the Vocal Competition in Duszniki-Zdroj (2002). She is also a recipient of a special prize at the Ada Sari International Vocal Competition in Nowy Sacz (2005). She received Andrzej Hiolski’ Prize for the best opera debut (Arsace in Rossini's Semiramide). Elzbieta Wroblewska has been a soloists of the Warsaw Chamber Opera since 2003, debuting there as Arsace in G. Rossini’s Semiramide. At the Warsaw Chamber Opera, she appears in works by Mozart: Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera), Ascanio (Ascanio in Alba), Farnace (Mitridate, Rè di Ponto), as well as singing the role of Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. She collaborates with the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera (Varvara in Janacek’s Katia Kabanova, Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata, Delia in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims, the Governess in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Doremik in Marta Ptaszynska’s Magic Doremik); the Teatr Wielki in Poznan (Jadwiga in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro) and with the Silesian Opera (Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice). She also performs in oratorios (including Bach, Caldara, Handel, Mozart, Rossini) and lyrical vocal works by Polish and foreign composers.

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The Prague Philharmonic Choir is the biggest vocal mixed ensemble in the Czech republic and ranks among the best mixed choirs in the world. It has been actively participating in shaping the form and character of European music and culture for eight decades. Their musicianship and importance are supported not only by an enormous number of concerts and performances but also hundreds of recordings still in great demand on the music market.

The Prague Philharmonic Choir is a modern professional body. Its hard everyday work and prudent musical guidance make the choir competent to perform any vocal or vocal-instrumental work and respect its style. These qualities result in invitations from leading Czech and world conductors, orchestras and festivals. The choir has won dozens of major international music awards and for years has been an important representative of the Czech Republic abroad.

For more information go to: ]www.choir.cz

María José Siri was born in Uruguay. In 2006 she sang Musetta in La Bohème at Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires. At Teatro Argentino de La Plata and Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile she sang Leonora in Il Trovatore, Violetta in La Traviata in Teatro Solis and in Teatro Argentinoas Countess of Le Nozze di Figaro. In 2007 she sang Violetta in La Traviata and Verdi’s Requiem at Teatro Colon. She also debuted at the Rheingau Festival in Wiesbaden. and she made her Italian debut with Le Villi of Puccini in Mantova, Novara and Rovigo.

In 2008 she sang Leonora in Il Trovatore in Genova Mimì at Semper Oper Dresden, and in Verdi's Requiem with the Berliner Philharmonic in Berlin, La Traviata at the Sankt Margarethen Festival and Aida in Stuttgart and in Palermo, (Franco Zeffirelli). In 2009 she sang I Due Foscari and the title role in Aida with Daniel Barenboim at La Scala di Milano. She also sang the Aida La Scala-production in Tel Aviv, Nedda in Pagliacci at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (director Franco Zeffirelli) and Mitridate re di Ponto at the Mozart Festival in La Coruna (director Graham Vick). 2010 began with La Juive at Mihailovsky, St. Petersburg. Her future includes Aida in, Stuttgart, Bregenzer Festspiele and Florence (with Mehta), Tosca in Genova and Savonlinna, I Due Foscari in Trieste, Il Trovatore in Palermo and Manon Lescaut in Santiago.

Lukáš Vasilek studied musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague, and conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has won a number of international competitions. He worked as a choir conductor at the Prague National Theatre’s opera and in 2007, was appointed the principal choirmaster of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, which is the most prestigious professional Czech choir. In our country, he collaborates especially with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Prague Symphony Orchestra. Lukáš Vasilek and the Prague Philharmonic Choir performed a number of concerts with the world’s great orchestras, such as: Berliner Philharmonicker, Staatskapelle Berlin, Izrael Philharmony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra sinfonietta della RAI di Torino, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, etc. As a guest, he performs every year at prestigious Czech and international music concerts. Apart from playing concerts, which is the main mission of the choir, the Prague Philharmonic Choir plays also opera. Over the last two years, the choir studied several operas, e.g. Lorin Maazel – 1984, R. Wagner – Tannhäuser, B. Martinů -  Hry o Marii (The Miracles of Mary), Benedict Mason – Playing Away, L. Janáček – Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead), C. Saint - Saëns – Samson and Delilah, etc. At present, Lukáš Vasilek is recording the complete vocal works of Leoš Janáček. He regularly collaborates with the Czech and world’s leading conductors.

Born in Kalamata, Greece, he studied classical guitar, graduating with diplomas in both classical guitar and singing at the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory and with a degree in English Language and Literature from the Greek National University in Athens. After a career as a classical guitarist he decided to change to singing, was awarded the Alexandra Triandi Scholarship and went to Italy to study with Aldo Protti’s widow, Masako Tanaka Protti. He went on to collaborate with all the major Greek orchestras in various concerts and made his debut at Greek National Opera singing Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana. Other roles with the company include Marcello La Bohéme, Leporello Don Giovanni, Xerxes Marathon-Salamis, Barnaba La Giocondo, Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Tonio I Pagliacci and Germont La Traviata. At the Megaron, Athens he has appeared as The Master O Protomastoras, Paolo Simon Boccanegra and the High Priest Alceste. He made his Italian debut as Gerard Andrea Chénier at Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Il Politeama di Catanzaro, Teatro Sociale di Trento and Teatro Goldoni di Livorno and sang the title role of Nabucco for the Fondazione Toscanini at Teatro Castello di Vigoleno and at Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa di Savona. He has appeared as Amonasro Aida at Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa di Savona, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, Thessaloniki Opera and at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. His role debut as Rigoletto was at Casa da Música in Porto; he repeated the role at Greek National Opera and it will be as Rigoletto that he will make his Covent Garden debut.

David Danholt was born in Funen, Denmark in 1976. He finished his studies with Prof. Kirsten Buhl-Møller at the Opera-Academy in Copenhagen in 2005. He has also participated in master-classes with Dame Margaret Price, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Andreas Schmidt and the pianists Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch, Fiona Macsherry and Martin Isepp.

 In the season 2005/06 Mr. Danholt was engaged to sing Eurimaco in Il ritorno D'Ulisse in patria and Gastone in La Traviata at The Royal Opera Copenhagen. In the 2006/07 season he made his debut at the National Opera, Århus in Denmark as Don Ottavio.

 He established himself in important roles, at the National Opera in the 2007/08, such as the title role in Gounod's Faust, as Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer and as Tamino in Mozart's Zauberflöte.

 In 2008/09 he sang Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Alfredo in La Traviata and the title role in Idomeneo at Danish National Opera. He will also sing Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Seviglia there in 2011. His international debut on larger scale will be in 2010 singing SS Officer in the worldpremiere of Weinbergs Die Passagierin at Bregenzer Festspiele. He will also cover the leadrole of Walther. Besides he will sing Messaggero in Graham Vick’ s Bregenzer lake production of Aida. In 2011 he is the young Sailor in Tristan & Isolde in Lyon and in 2012 he sings Idomeneo at Grange Park Opera.

 Apart from his many stage performances, Mr. Danholt has extensive concert-appearances throughout Denmark and Scandinavia, performing works such as Mozart's Requiem and Masses, Britten's A midsummernight's dream, Händel's Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Haydn's Schöpfung and Mendelsohn's Elias.

WIEN geht BADEN

Hosted by: Freakwave

14 August - 10.30 pm, Werkstattbühne

The Freakwave Festival will make an audiovisual appearance at this year's KAZ Late Night closing party. The visual component will be taken care of by the team from SOUND:FRAME Wien together with VJ and DJ support from the local heroes MONKEYBREAKS. Building on the Vienna Visual Show that sound:frame presented at the Expo in Shanghai, the Monkeys will create the visual counterpart for Bregenz. Also, SLICK and ANNA LEISER from RESOLUT tribe/Wien will be on hand to prove once again why Resolut is one of Vienna's most enduring and consistently hot clubs. Late Night is completed by a live act: DADAJUGEND POLYFORM from Nürnberg, known for their high-tension a:v live mix of electro, punk and pop.

For more info, go to: ]www.freakwave.at.

Price: 5 euros

Concert / performance by Christian Naujoks

Kunsthaus Bregenz makes a guest appearance at KAZ Late Night

20 August - 10.00 pm, Werkstattbühne

At the moment, Christian Naujoks is even better known in the music scene than in the visual arts scene. His first album "Untitled" - released last year on the renowned label Dial Records - received paeans of praise from newspapers like "Der Spiegel" and "Die Zeit". "Spex", an influential magazine for pop culture, has written enthusiastically about Naujoks' virtuosity, his ability to slip effortlessly between serious and popular music, for example between twelve-tone music and R & B or Deep House.

"There didn't seem to be much time for the visual arts, one might think," writes the director of Kunsthaus Bregenz, Yilmaz Dziewior. "But it would be a mistake to think so, because Naujoks' musical and performance output is situated precisely on the fine dividing line between the two spheres. In Naujoks' discourse, pop, visual art and music are two sides of the same coin." The concert / performance is the last in the KAZ programme this summer and at the same time a continuation of the cooperation with the Kunsthaus Bregenz in a new form – events that are poised between the visual arts and music.

Price: 5 euros

]Sound samples Christian Naujoks

Suite Exotica

Annäherungen an die Fremde / Approaches to the exotic

Christoph Stradner, cello and Luca Monti, piano
Works by Igor Stravinsky, Toshio Hosokawa, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu and Isang Yun

27 July - 9 pm, Kunsthaus Bregenz

The term musical exoticism describes a genre in which rhythm, melody or instrumentation is supposed to evoke the atmosphere of foreign lands: the depiction of a certain culture for the pleasure of other people. Christoph Stradner and Luca Monti have put together a programme that illuminates this concept from a variety of angles. The musical journey begins and ends with works by a Russian who lived in the West: Igor Stravinsky, whose Suite italienne vividly conveys the musical atmosphere of Italy. He is joined by three Asian composers whose music is fascinating for being so different to western music. Contrasting with this, finally, we will hear music by the mysterious Giacinto Scelsi, whose absorption in Indian philosophy led to the elaboration of a fictive musical cosmos all his own, a kind of artificial exoticism.

Price: 15 euros

In Trance

Works by John Adams and Fausto Romitelli

Conductor: Titus Engel
oenm. österrreisches ensemble für neue musik

4 August - 7.30 pm, Seestudio in the Festspielhaus

John Adams' Shaker Loops is one of the most performed compositions by this very popular co-founder of American Minimalist music. "Shaker" in the title refers to the religious community of that name. The music is supposed to "conjure up the vision of these otherwise pious and diligent souls, caught up in the ecstasy of a dance which culminates in the revelation of physical and spiritual transcendence".

The Italian-born composer Fausto Romitelli, who died in 2004 at the age of only 41, wrote unique works that thrillingly combine minimalist loops, the study of acoustic colours and the formal theory of spectral music with harsh rock elements, heavy metal and techno. Romitelli strove to envelope his listeners in a sound world that would put them into a kind of hypnotic state by means of sensory oversaturation. The composition Professor Bad Trip, which Romitelli considered his best work, was inspired by Henri Michaux's writings about hallucinogens.

Price: 15 euros

Strange journeys

The composer Johannes Maria Staud

Conductor: Martin Kerschbaum
Wiener Concert-Verein

11 August - 9 pm, Kunsthaus Bregenz

When he was only ten years old, he dreamed of becoming a composer: today Johannes Maria Staud, born in Innsbruck in 1974, is one. His music alternates between a creative world of associative discovery, and clear, logical order. He possesses extraordinary technical expertise, which he uses to steer listeners through a musical world of contrasts and changing perspectives.

Staud's music leads the listener into beautifully fashioned soundscapes, often half-hidden by a veil of mystery. His works resemble musical detective stories in which the composer plays tricks with the audience's expectations and leads them down scarce-trodden paths into the deepest, darkest recesses of music, where surprises lurk at every turn. The composer strides with unerring, almost fatalistic confidence across uncertain, constantly changing terrain.

Price: 15 euros

In der Fremde / Exile

Works by Györgi Ligeti, Sofia Gubaidulina with world premieres by Amr Okba and Uday Krishnakumar
Ensemble Lux

17 August - 7.30 pm, Seestudio in the Festspielhaus

In their concert, which features the world premiere of two string quartets, the talented young musicians of this Vienna-based ensemble have chosen to focus on composers who live far away from their homeland. The music of György Ligeti, a Hungarian Jew who acquired Austrian citizenship, reflects a conflation of his own culture with western ideas. By contrast, the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, who has lived in Germany since 1992, is preoccupied in her music with her own roots. As a result of her upbringing she may be regarded as belonging to the Russian cultural sphere, but being of Tatar extraction, Asian influences are also unquestionably discernible in her work. Moreover, since Gubaidulina is strongly influenced by Christianity, composing for her is a religious act.

For the concert, Kunst aus der Zeit / Art of Our Time has commissioned two composers of the younger generation - Amr Okba, an Egyptian living in Salzburg, and Uday Krishnakamur, an Indian in New York – to compose one new work each to investigate whether it is possible, in times of musical globalisation, to maintain and preserve one's cultural identity. The two composers will be in attendance to talk about the concert and explain their works to the audience.

Price: 15 euros