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Cultural diversity with a mountain view: Tyrol celebrates summer with music festivals, open-air theatre, culture on the mountain and many other highlights.
Culture under the open sky - and summer can come. Almost every area of culture pushes outdoors in the Tyrol in summer. Theatre, cinema, concerts and cultural festivals, all of these can be experienced in Tyrol at open-air performances with a view of the mountains. Summer feeling in the land of mountains and land of festivals - from opulent festival weeks to family theatre festivals.
Splendid opera productions from the Baroque and Romantic periods, festive concerts and extensive supporting programmes are offered above all by the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Tyrolean Festival Erl. The Easter Festival in Innsbruck and Hall combines old and new, music, dance and film. At the Klangspuren in Schwaz, on the other hand, the main focus is on contemporary classical music. And the new festival Listening Closely in Wattens - the successor to Musik im Riesen - offers chamber music at the highest level. The Operetta Summer Kufstein is passionately committed to the light muse, this time with 'Jesus Christ Superstar', the musical classic by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice.
The Promenade Concerts in the courtyard of the Imperial Hofburg in Innsbruck are rich in tradition and particularly charming. The concert series revives the era of symphonic wind music and provides atmospheric summer evenings in a baroque ambience with the best European wind orchestras.
But it doesn't always have to be classical: Urban and always on the pulse of modern electronic music, Heart of Noise has carved out a unique niche for Tyrol. Also part of the alternative scene is the Gans Anders Festival. The Stoabeatz festival at Walchsee in Kaiserwinkl builds a bridge between traditional values and contemporary culture, and the interdisciplinary art festival medienfrische - neue medien - experimentelle k unst brings together media art and tranquil village life in Pfafflar.
Zillertal and Achensee are the venues for three concept festivals with great appeal in summer. While the achensee.literatour from 11 to 14 May 2023 brings together the landscape, literary artists and readers, the Steudltenn Theatre Festival offers a multifaceted programme full of drama and music: in-house productions, international guest performances and children's theatre, but also concerts, cabaret or market days are on the programme. The Steudltenn Theatre Festival in Uderns has already convinced several times with its climate-conscious commitment and is thus unique in the cultural sector in Tyrol. In 2023 it will again be awarded the Green Event Tirol Star.
This year, the Tiroler Volksschauspiele in Telfs, under the new direction of Gregor Bloéb, are treading traditional and modern paths in folk theatre. The focus this year is on the play '7 Deadly Sins', which once founded the Tiroler Volksschauspiele. In summer 2023, the play will be adapted and interpreted in a contemporary way with new texts.
A special open-air festival makes the Dolomite town of Lienz a centre of attraction. TheOlala InternationalStreet Theatre Festival celebrates 30 colourful years with its musical clowns, cabaret artists, acrobats and all the other original and unusual characters.
By the way, people in Tyrol like to be on stage just as much as they like to be outdoors - and that can be wonderfully combined in the summer months: Summer theatre such as the Schlossbergspiele Rattenberg, the Geierwally open-air stage in Elbigenalp and the Thaurer Schlossspiele score points not only for cultural enjoyment but also for their spectacular outdoor backdrops: from rock faces to castle ruins. At the Hoch Kultur Festival in East Tyrol, the musicians of Franui celebrate their 30th anniversary and invite you to concerts in the high mountains.
The chamber orchestra InnStrumenti, one of the most imaginative orchestras in the country, invites you once a year to classical music on the mountain. The alpine landscape of the Muttereralm south of Innsbruck is transformed into a concert hall - without seats, but with great music and a breathtaking backdrop. The Hillvibes Reggae Festival brings Caribbean sounds to Telfs. At the Stubaier Almklang, rock faces and alpine landscapes meet outstanding folk music and voices from the entire Alpine region. High above Innsbruck, on the other hand, the focus is on electronic music: the Nordkette Wetterleuchten on the Seegrube at 2,000 metres above sea level offers two days and one night of the finest electronic sounds and exuberant partying in the midst of the high mountains.
Films under mountains and/or stars
The open-air cinema in the courtyard of the over 500-year-old Zeughaus in Innsbruck shows film classics, new cult films and great cinema away from the mainstream. The film and cinema scene meets at the IFFI - International Film Festival Innsbruck or the Kitzbühel Film Festival and again in September at the Pillusion - Film Festival. Film culture reaches the highest heights in Tyrol, and not only in terms of quality. The St. Anton Film Festival presents films all about "mountains - people - adventure".
The current calendar of events, editorial articles and reports on culture in Tyrol can be found on the website www.tirol.at/kultur-leben.