Overview

• Lydia Steier will direct Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer on the Seebühne in the summers of 2028 and 2029.
• Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz returns to the Lake Constance stage this summer for a second consecutive season.
• Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is scheduled for performances in the summers of 2026 and 2027 as part of the festival’s mid-decade programming.
• Austria has trimmed the festival’s annual public subsidy from around €7 million to €4.9 million, cutting roughly €2.1 million per year.
• The festival has delayed its Vienna Burgtheater co-production and postponed planned upgrades to the Seebühne’s acoustic system.