Sobotka moves from Bregenz to Berlin
Bregenz Festival Director Elisabeth Sobotka is moving to Berlin in fall 2024. She will take over the directorship of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. The vacant position in Bregenz will be advertised for a new appointment after the coming festival summer.
The first festival season of the new artistic director will therefore be in the summer of 2025, according to the Bregenz Festival House's announcement, while the first new production of The Play on the Lake under the new artistic direction will be in the summer of 2026. After the play on the lake Madame Butterfly of the years 2022 and 2023, Carl Maria von Weber will be on stage in the summers of 2024 and 2025. The Freischütz under the direction of Rigoletto director Philipp Stölzl is on the program.
Sobotka's predecessor in Berlin, Matthias Schulz, will take over as Artistic Director of Zurich Opera House at the start of the 2025/26 season.
