The Carinthian Summer is a music and cultural festival in the Austrian province of Carinthia. It was founded in 1969 in Ossiach and since then has been held annually in the months of July and August. Since 1972, also in the city of Villach and since 2003, also at other venues in Carinthia. The festival programme has been built on the focal points of master concerts, chamber music and orchestral concerts, as well as seminars and symposia. Since 1974, a special feature of the programme has been the "Ossiach church opera", with the Austrian premiere of Benjamin Britten's The Prodigal Son (1975) and world premieres (from 1982 onwards mostly composition commissions from the festival) of sacred music theatre works by contemporary Austrian composers (among others. Cesar Bresgen, Herbert Lauermann, Karl Heinz Füssl, Dieter Kaufmann, Kurt Schwertsik, Iván Eröd, Peter Planyavsky, Thomas Daniel Schlee, Bruno Strobl, Gottfried von Einem). More information...
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