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From the Arena di Verona to the Bregenz Festival’s Floating Stage

Start your summer by streaming spectacular full-length productions of your favorite operas from the world’s renowned outdoor venues! From the Bregenz Festival in Austria, experience over-the-top stagings of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Verdi’s Rigoletto. From the Arena di Verona in Italy, watch Bizet’s beloved Carmen.

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Bregenz Festival: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Several performers standing on a stage, resembling folded up paper with an illustrated mountain range, suspended over water, with an American flag placed at the top.

Puccini’s popular opera tells the story of a Japanese geisha and her tragic love for an American lieutenant. The venue for this new production is the floating stage at Bregenz on the Austrian shore of Lake Constance.

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Bregenz Festival: Verdi’s Rigoletto

An outdoor stage in the shape of a ring, suspended above a body of water, with two hands, a balloon, and a clown's face suspended above

Verdi’s masterpiece—disturbing yet compelling and beautiful—is an opera of extremes, staged at Austria’s Bregenz Festival as both a circus-like spectacle and an intimate chamber drama on the world’s largest floating stage.

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Arena di Verona: Bizet’s Carmen

A performer standing on a platform playing the tambourine, and a group of performers surrounding and clapping along

The Arena di Verona revives Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary 1995 production of Bizet’s masterpiece about a headstrong young woman of Seville. This performance features mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča in the title role.

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Photography: Aida by Karl Forster, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto by Anja Köhler, La bohème and Carmen by FotoEnnevi.