The ambition of Bregenz is even more astonishing when you realise that when the festival first launched in 1946 the town didn’t even have its own theatre. The progress from this inaugural performance, ...

Every summer, Bregenz Festival lures huge crowds – and top-notch British talent – to its floating stage on Lake Constance. It’s a thrilling marriage of seriousness and pizzazz, just as long as it ...

Spectacular spectaculars have their pride of place in the opera world, but with its staging of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," the Bregenz Festival raises the stakes by providing vocal as well as actual ...

The grandest, most ornate and iconic opera houses around the world are built on centuries of musical history, though they're dedicated to much more than celebrating the past. Here's how they're ...

BREGENZ, Austria — It’s Dodgers caps, L.A.-themed T-shirts and Lakers shorts on the shores of Lake Constance. What makes Los Angeles especially cool to Bregenz teens as they cruise the third-largest ...

A scene from Verdi's opera Rigoletto during a photo rehearsal on the lake stage as part of the Bregenz Festival. The premiere will take place on July 17. Felix Kästle/picture alliance via Getty Images ...

My husband and I had pedaled through Bregenz, Austria, several times while cycling the Lake Constance bike routes that follow the shores of Europe’s third-largest lake through Austria, Germany ...

We’ve seen a fair number of fancy opera stage sets in our day, but nothing as astounding as the one mounted for the Bregenz Opera Festival’s production of André Chénier: a giant floating head and ...