Bregenz Opera Festival
The Bregenz Festival—recently recommended as an event every planner should attend—draws huge crowds every summer to the shores of Austria’s Lake Constance, where a staggeringly extravagant floating stage set is built to showcase opera performances. The opera festival, founded in 1946, also includes a conventional indoor theater, but each year one well-known opera is staged on a custom-built, high-tech platform, with performers often using the surrounding waters as an extension of the stage.
Photo: Karl Forester
