Paasikivi Artistic Director of the Bregenz Festival
Lilli Paasikivi will take over as Artistic Director of the Bregenz Festival from the 2025 season. The Artistic Director of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki will succeed Elisabeth Sobotka, who will move to the Staatsoper Berlin after summer 2024.
Born in 1965 in Imatra, Finland, Lilli Paasikivi has helped organize and found several summer festivals in Finland in addition to an international career as a singer at leading opera houses and concert halls. She has been artistic director of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki since 2013. Her work at the Finnish National Opera focuses on combining innovative technologies with the art form of opera.
22 people have applied for the Bregenz artistic directorship. The term of office of the designated festival director will initially run for five years.
Founded in 2002, the Bregenz Festival Private Foundation is the sole owner of Bregenzer Festspiele GmbH, which organizes the annual Bregenz Festival in the summer months. The founders are the Association of Friends of the Bregenz Festival, the Republic of Austria, the Province of Vorarlberg and the City of Bregenz.
