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Program book
Our 2026 program book is available for download. ...
BE HAPPY
Today we're revealing a secret – and yes, it has to do with joy. ...
Award for Claire Huangci
We congratulate pianist Claire Huangci on a special honor. ...
Music salon in Vienna
Invitation to a concert with commentary at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. ...
Panel discussion: The changing image of Carinthia
For World Creativity and Innovation Day, artistic director Nadja Kayali was a panelist at the university...
Our commissioned work lives on
Hannah Eisendle's "Azinheira" can be heard in Germany for the first time. ...
Impulses in the court music band
Impulses in the Vienna Court Music Ensemble. ...
Literature that moves
Discover the texts from our morning concerts for the first time in book form. ...
Program presentations in Villach & Klagenfurt
Artistic director Nadja Kayali gave insights into this year's festival program to a packed house. ...
That was the Composer's Lab
Composer Johannes Maria Staud and organist Wolfgang Kogert offered insights into their work. ...
Art and culture on track
The launch of the Westbahn service on the southern line was celebrated with an inaugural journey from Vienna to Villach...
Our full program is online!
Discover the diversity of the Carinthian Summer 2026! ...
Save the Date
Our program presentations in Villach and Vienna! ...
Concerts on sale in advance
Secure your tickets for the Carinthian Summer Festival 2026! ...
Giving shared moments
Give your loved ones the gift of shared moments! We'd be happy to advise you on our concerts and merchandise...
Our new board
Christian Kircher is the new chairman of the Carinthian Summer Festival. ...
Advent concert
At our Advent concert, the mixed choir Danica filled the Villach parish church with music. ...
Book presentations & readings
We cordially invite you to our reading series at the Robert Musil Literature Museum and the Kulturhof Villach! ...
Guest performance at the Burgtheater
On November 22nd, "Zöglinge" was performed as a guest production at the Burgtheater in Vienna. ...
Club Festival
Support * Promote * Enable ...
We mourn the loss of Thomas Daniel Schlee
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Thomas Daniel Schlee.
We mourn the loss of Gerda Fröhlich
We mourn with deep sorrow the loss of our honorary director, Gerda Fröhlich. ...
Guest performance at the Burgtheater
Zöglinge is coming to the Burgtheater Vienna as a guest performance...
Advent concert
We open the gates to Christmastime with atmospheric sounds and melodies. ...
Sparks
A conversation about hope and freedom at the Klagenfurt City Theatre...
Carinthian Summer: Opening Hours
Our opening hours in autumn! ...
Our final concert: West Side Stories
A brilliant finale for the Carinthian Summer 2025! ...
West Side Stories
Join Marin Alsop, Claire Huangci and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra on August 23rd...
Listening around
Listen up, the "festival within the festival" has started! ...
Encounters in sound: dance, language and communal singing
Three concerts, three soundscapes: The Syrian-Austrian All Star Band gets the audience dancing, the ...
From Beethoven to Jandl – on a musical journey
From Schubert songs to hiking and into the nature of Carinthia. ...
Balkan Paradise Orchestra
The Balkan Paradise Orchestra got the Congress Center Villach dancing 💃 ...
Harmony for three
Julia Hagen, along with Maxim Tzekov and Lukas Sternath, delighted the audience. ...
Culinary aftertaste
Let your concert experience linger over a delightful dinner at the Stiftsschmiede Ossiach.
Moved through four centuries
From Monteverdi to dance music – the last few days at the Carinthian Summer Festival were so varied!
Grand Romanticism
Festival artist Julia Hagen, together with Veronika Eberle and our festival orchestra, enchanted the audience...
Falling upwards
Joachim Meyerhoff read from his latest book at the Congress Center Villach. ...
Himmelhochzwei in Ossiach
Julia Hagen, FESTIVAL ARTIST, thrilled audiences at her first concert together with Anneleen Lenaerts. ...
FINTango – the opening concert
The Carinthian Summer Festival 2025 is now open! ...
Festival Overture II
The TrioVanBeethoven delighted the audience at our Festival Overture II – Libertà with piano trios...
Festival Overture I
The fantastic Patricia Nolz and the Basel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Giovanni Antonini ...
We have a Bachmann Prize winner!
We have a Bachmann Prize winner! ...
Pupils – World Premiere
On Saturday, Birgit Minichmayr read a political fable at the Kammerlichtspiele cinema in Klagenfurt, written...
Carinthian Summer – Shuttle
New! Carinthian summer shuttles for Ossiach! ...
Pupils
The clawless little cat Shanya arrives at the "Construction Meow," the women's prison in Moscow, to...
Festival Overture II – Libertà
The Viennese TrioVanBeethoven has dedicated itself to Beethoven in its very name, Beethoven the revolutionary...
Festival Overture I – Luce
This year, the Carinthian Summer Festival in Villach will start for the first time with two festival overtures...
Women's cafe
That was the women's café on May 28, 2025! ...
Invitation! Concert and talk with Krzysztof Meyer
In cooperation with the Polish Institute Vienna, we cordially invite you to a concert with commentary featuring...
Invitation! Program presentation 2025 in Vienna
We cordially invite you to our program presentation for the Carinthian Summer 2025 in Vienna. ...
Carisom in the European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica/Gorizia
The world premiere of the play will take place on April 25, 2025, in Nova Gorica/Gorizia, this year's European Capital of Culture....
We've moved!
We've moved! Since Monday, April 14.04th, the Carinthian Summer Festival has a new home at...
Midday concerts in the court music chapel
During Holy Week, as part of the Transitions Festival, midday concerts took place daily at 12:00 noon in the ...
Program presentation in Berlin
This year's festival program was presented in Berlin. ...
Carisom @ Peraugymnasium
culture.young.initiative ...
Program Presentation
Curtain up for the Carinthian Summer 2025! ...
Strong women at the University of Klagenfurt
Curtain up for the Carinthian Summer 2025! ...
POSTPONED: Program presentation
POSTPONED: Program presentation ...
Carinthia mourns
We, the team of the Carinthian Summer Festival, mourn with the family of the murdered young person and...
Open House
Our Open House marks the start of ticket sales for the 2025 season! ...
Carinthian summer in winter
The first Sunday of Advent also brings the first Advent concert of the Carinthian Summer Festival! ...
Syrian Women's Café
Yesterday we met again at the women's café. This time we went on a joint visit to...
Carinthian Summer (Reviewed)
I've reread the Carinthian Summer program, including texts on the theme of freedom by eight authors...
Our final concert: A Soundtrack to the Stars
With the brilliant film music concert "A Soundtrack to the Stars" featuring our festival orchestra ORF ...
Vespers – Sacred Evening Music
With a festive sacred evening music, a baroque vespers by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, ...
In conversation
Our honorary director Gerda Fröhlich, who was the director of the Carinthian Summer Festival from 1980 to 2003 ...
Europe! Europe?
The award-winning writer Robert Menasse was at the Domenig Steinhaus in Steindorf yesterday...
Our morning concerts
Every Monday and Tuesday at 08:00 a.m. there was an engaging half hour of readings and music at ...
Philharmonic Five
From Hollywood with love – A dazzling cinematic journey. That was the title of yesterday's concert by...
Out of step with the times
The fantastic Messages Quartet performed last Sunday in the abbey church in Ossiach. The ...
Greetings!
This unusual concert evening took the audience on a poetic journey into Schubert's ...
Schubert Quintet
The four musicians of the Esmé Quartet dedicated themselves last night to Mozart's String Quartet KV 575...
Cello Cinema
Yesterday, our festival artist Eckart Runge treated us to a truly special experience with...
Opium
Yesterday, our festival artist Eckart Runge and his duo partner Jacques Ammon performed music by Kurt ...
Children's Music Lab.
Last weekend, the children spent three days exploring together with the musicians Sophie...
Venetian
Anastasia Kobekina, also known as the “whirlwind on the cello”, delighted the audience together with the chamber orchestra...
Sound hike Gerlitzen
On Sunday, radio presenter, mountain guide and double bassist Nina Polaschegg and Bertl ... went hiking.
Swan Song – An Evening of Longing
Last night was all about longing, because Franz Schubert's swan song is about...
Dance.Colombia.Dabke – Music connects!
A Burgenland-Croatian folklore ensemble, a Slovenian choir from Carinthia, and a ...
Angels. Light. Organ. in Klagenfurt Cathedral
On Sunday, the Klagenfurt Cathedral was illuminated in a new light by the light artist Victoria Coeln...
The Ghost of Kanzianiberg
Familiar and unfamiliar sounds mingled... Were those ghosts or the echo of a cello...?
Cuca Roseta & Fernando Pessoa
Fado star Cuca Roseta brought sensual, passionate music from Portugal to us last Friday...
Play.Space.Rounds. & On Clay Feet
A world premiere by Bernhard Lang and a concerto for flute and voices by Beat Furrer - these ...
Island Listening – An audio experience trail on the island of Faaker See
The "Park Opera", an audio experience course by Wojtek Blecharz on the unique island in Lake Faak...
Music in the church spaces of Villach and Ossiach
Beautiful sounds and magical moments in the churches of Villach and Ossiach with our ...
That was the Ö1 Culture Picnic
On Sunday, our Ö1 Culture Picnic in Ossiach was a time for celebrating, listening, and playing games...
That was our opening concert!
Our opening weekend was a celebration! Numerous distinguished guests, including Federal President Alexander ...
Display at Gottschling Delicatessen
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Gottschling delicatessen in Villach for the lovely ...
Second Syrian women's café
The second Syrian women's café took place on Monday, June 17.06th, at Café Dip and More, run by Abeer Bakdounes. ...
Carinthian Summer at the market in Villach
Last Saturday we had our own stand at the market in Villach and sold our festival sparkling wine with...
Our children's music lab is online!
Sophie Schollum and Jaime Wolfson's Children's Music Lab invites children to create their own sound world...
Cooperation with ORF III
The cooperation with ORF III is underway! With the support of Governor Peter Kaiser, the new...
That was the 2024 program presentation.
CARINTHIAN SUMMER in person - Our 2024 program presentation took place on April 17th in the Bamberg Hall in ...
Program presentation 2024
CARINTHIAN SUMMER in person - We would like to cordially invite you to our program presentation on ...
Carinthian Summer invites you to the Syrian Women's Café
On April 10th at 19:00 pm, the first event will take place at Café Dip and more, located at Bahnhofstraße 10...
Shelter – A project by Marko Lipuš
Approximately 20.000 people in Austria are homeless or lack access to basic necessities. In the ...
Nadja Kayali is Head of the Year!
We congratulate our artistic director, Nadja Kayali! Four months ago, the Vienna native took over...
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Nadja Kayali “Head of the Year”
Our director, Nadja Kayali, has been nominated for the title "Head of the Year" by the Kleine Zeitung newspaper in the category ...
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