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The Innsbruck Early Music Festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary from 24 July to 30 August 2026. The highlight of this edition will be the baroque opera par excellence: Pietro Antonio Cesti’s Il pomo d’oro, a legendary composition by the great composer of the Innsbruck court.
Under the musical direction of Ottavio Dantones, Il pomo d’oro, with its 47 roles performed by 20 singers, accompanied by dancers and a choir, will be performed for the first time since its creation in 1668. Dantone, the festival’s musical director, has also recomposed the lost music from Acts III and V so that the opera can be performed in its entirety. The staging is entrusted to Italian opera director Fabio Ceresa, who, in collaboration with costume designer Giuseppe Palella and Austrian set designer Nikolaus Webern, will make the impossible possible: staging Il pomo d’oro with its more than 23 scenes in a visually impressive and humorous way. Dancers from Street Motion Studio and the NovoCanto choir complete the cast.
From 21 August 2026, participants in the 2025 Cesti Competition will perform Georg Friedrich Händel’s opera Atalanta. The 2025 winner, Salvador Simão, and third-place winner Pierre Gennaï will make their debuts in Atalanta, directed by François de Carpentries and Karine Van Hercke, under the musical direction of Andrea Buccarella.
The concerts will showcase the full spectrum of early music as well as the dynamism of the current scene with stars such as Jean Rondeau, Giovanni Antonini, Anna Bonitatibus, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Versailles and the Academia Montis Regalis. The anniversary programme is rounded off by a host of promising young artists who will bring Innsbruck to life in various venues. The final of the 17th Cesti Competition on 30 August will bring the 2026 Innsbruck Festival to a close, as is tradition.
Infos: https://www.altemusik.at/en
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