C Jazz Picknick Bartholomaeberg - Montafon Tourismus GmbH - Patrick Säly
Summer of Culture 2021
Experience culture live
C Jazz Picknick Bartholomaeberg - Montafon Tourismus GmbH - Patrick Säly
Experience culture live
These colourful festivals and imaginative events are a delight for the senses in early summer. From Lake Constance to scenic mountain panoramas, nature plays a key role in many places. From high culture to cabaret, there are programmes for the young and young at heart in the villages or the city. Many of these events are open air...
In summer 2021, the Bregenz Festival will present a revival production of Giuseppe Verdi’s sensational opera Rigoletto on the lakeside stage. For the opening of the 75th Bregenz Festival, Arrigo Boito’s opera Nero will be performed at the Festspielhaus. To round off the programme, there will also be concerts from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the Cross Culture youth programme, theatre productions and more.
Outdoors, in rural locations, at the lake or in the mountains, galleries, museums and exhibitions are now open throughout Vorarlberg and have some extremely exciting exhibition projects in store. Check out these amazing exhibitions at small and large galleries or even in shop windows in the city!
Top concerts from a wide range of genres in Montafon: From baroque to chamber music, jazz, crossover or organ – Montafon boasts 16 organs from four centuries in close proximity! All festival performances take place in unusual venues tailored to the musical act.
Those who visit FAQ Bregenzerwald are sure to have a great time. Choose from programme items that invite visitors to lean back, enjoy and be amazed, and others that provide the opportunity to share, understand and join in discussions.
Experience the festival atmosphere in the idyllic Villa Falkenhorst park as well as in the Blumenegg municipalities. Enjoy concerts such as the “Symphonisches Schrammelquintett Wien” or the traditional Military Music Band Vorarlberg concert to well-known cabaret artist Gery Seidl, who will be a guest in the park during the closing party on 22nd August with the Vorarlberg band ‘All Right Guys.’ Let yourself be enchanted by the many surprises as well as the unique atmosphere of the villa and the park…
Vorarlberg Cultural Picnics will take place for the second time in 2021. Bodensee-Vorarlberg invites young artists from Austria to perform in very special places such as rural and urban locations, or in nature.
The poolbar Festival is an important fixture of the event programme every year. This festival for cultural events from niche to pop music attracts numerous concert-goers to Feldkirch annually with its uniquely designed ambience and big names such as Element of Crime. What is new every year is the architecture. Another plus point of the festival is the intelligent temporary design of the spaces, which really helps amp up the poolbar image and makes the architecture one of the festival’s headliners.
On the weekend of 6+7 August, the BEZAU BEATZ festival will rock the valley between the Winterstaude and Kanisfluh mountains. For the first time this year, there is also a MATINEE performance on Sunday, 8 August. At tried and tested venues such as the Wälderbähnle train depot, the Baumgarten Panorama Platform, as well as for the first time in Peter Figer’s blacksmith workshop, guests can indulge in the collective enjoyment of music. These venues are all “semi-open-air.” Catering at the railway station will again be provided by the team “The Falling Cow” with delicious burgers including veggie options!
Scenic landscapes, summer air, music and culture: enjoy cool summer temperatures and classical music at the Krumbach Sommerfrische festival along with stories and places of the lower Bregenzerwald. Natalia Sagmeister and Alex Ladstätter, who are themselves dedicated musicians in various orchestras, are the young Vorarlberg directors of this small festival in Krumbach. This municipality in the Bregenzerwald has become famous for its bus-stop shelters (BUS:STOP project), which were designed by architects from all over the world.
Movie buffs are already looking forward to the 36th ALPINALE Short Film Festival, which will once again take place in Bludenz. The international jury watches all submitted competition films together with the audience and awards prizes in various categories. The event includes a children’s short film festival and drama workshop. The ALPINALE presents the international short films in original version with German or English subtitles at the Remiseplatz square.
Established as recently as 2015, the Jazz Stage Lech has blossomed into a bright star amongst the diverse array of Arlberg summer events. During the second week of August, the sport.park.lech becomes a magnet for top-class jazz musicians from around the globe!