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Diverse cultural festivals
Enjoy colourful festivals in summer and autumn. Nature plays a big part as always, from Lake Constance to the mountain panorama. With programmes for young and old, ranging from high culture to cabaret, and events held in villages and cities, many of them open air!
Indoor and outdoor
jazzambach will once again make Götzis a hotspot for music lovers in 2026. For five days, Götzis in Vorarlberg will become the center for excellent jazz in all its diversity. Under the artistic direction of internationally renowned Vorarlberg jazz pianist David Helbock, jazz greats from all over the world will meet outstanding musicians from the Lake Constance region and Vorarlberg. The lineup ranges from the opening with the famous writer Michael Köhlmeier and the newly founded jazzambach ensemble under the direction of Claude Diallo to other highlights such as Shake Stew, the Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio with Scott Colley and Brian Blade, and jazz singing icon Norma Winstone. Filippa Gojo (winner of the german Jazz Award) and Herbert Walser-Breuss from Vorarlberg will also be there.
With its performances of dance art at the highest level, the Bregenzer Frühling enjoys great popularity far beyond the borders of the country. Its special profile and quality is unique in the Lake Constance region. Every spring, top-class, internationally acclaimed ensembles thrill audiences with their new standard-setting productions in the Festspielhaus. Extremely remarkable and expressive choreographies determine the programme. Five world-class companies from France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain will thrill the audience.
In the summer of 2026, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece La traviata will be performed on the lake stage of the Bregenz Festival for the first time. The open-air atmosphere, the spectacular stage, the first-class artists, and the wonderful music that the Bregenz Festival conjures up on Lake Constance every year are truly unique. In addition to the performance on the lake, Leoš Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Broucek will be staged as an opera in the Festspielhaus. The program is complemented by orchestral concerts by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the Young Festival for children and young people, and many other large and small productions.
The most important Schubert Festival in the world takes place annually in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg in the Bregenzerwald. In its place of origin, Hohenems, concert series are performed in spring and autumn, in June and August/September in Schwarzenberg, where culture and nature form a wonderful symbiosis.
Every summer the poolbar festival is on the programme: the festival for cultural events from niche to pop attracts numerous guests to Feldkirch every year with its uniquely designed ambience and big names. The venue is an empty indoor swimming pool and an open-air stage. Attractions include a varied programme of events with amazing musical headliners and a new high-quality design on all levels every year. From the family-friendly jazz breakfast in the park to cinema, open air on the meadow, poetry slam, performances to the concerts with renowned bands or those that can be discovered as insider tips.
Top-class concerts of different genres at unusual venues in the Montafon: from baroque to chamber music, jazz, crossover or organ – 16 organs from four centuries can be found in the Montafon in a very small space! Divided over the weekends, these thematic focal points take place in the Montafon towns during the summer.
The forum with festival character illuminates questions on current topics from different perspectives. The programme includes lectures and discussions in unusual locations, concerts in special places, hikes, readings and culinary experiences. FAQ Bregenzerwald is also accessible all year round as an online platform for questions and answers, food for thought and inspiration.
The :alpenarte is the young classical music festival for a broad audience in Schwarzenberg in Bregenzerwald. Matthias Honeck and his sister Anna Maria Honeck are artistic directors. Matthias Honeck is, among other things, a principal with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and was born and has his roots in Vorarlberg. As a member of a famous family of musicians, he is also firmly anchored in the international music scene. Outstanding talents with a connection to Vorarlberg as well as international musicians from all over the world show their skills.
“Lichtstadt Feldkirch” (Light City Feldkirch) is the festival for art with light in Vorarlberg. Every two years, the festival invites artists to perform in Feldkirch in many forms and facets. The historic old town is not only a spectacular backdrop for the festival evenings themselves. Above all, the locations are the starting point and source of inspiration for the content and design framework of the light art festival.
The Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Bludenz Days of Contemporary Music) is an international festival whose aim is to make contemporary music audible in Bludenz. The festival takes place in the Remise Bludenz. This year there will again be a total of five concerts, master classes and interesting encounters between composers, musicians and visitors over four days. The programme includes music from the last ten years, including twelve world premieres and five Austrian premieres.
The Montforter Zwischentöne were founded in 2015 by the city of Feldkirch on the occasion of the opening of the newly built Montforthaus. The annual festival, which takes place between November and the beginning of December, uses the period between All Souls’ Day and Advent to address questions between retrospection, farewell and hopeful new beginnings. A “dramaturgy of closeness” in which transformation becomes the basic principle. The programme includes concerts, music salons and talks.
The open-air short film festival ALPINALE takes place annually on the Remiseplatz in the Alpine town of Bludenz. Every year, a preliminary jury selects the best short films from over 1,000 submitted in the categories action, animation, VR or 360, horror and local short films, which are then shown during the festival and subsequently awarded prizes.
