Seebühne Floating Stage, Bregenzer Festspiele, Lake Constance, Bregenz, Austria

Founded in 1946, the festival presents a wide variety of musical and theatrical events in several venues:
• Seebühne (or floating stage), with 7,000 seats, is the location for large-scale opera or musical performances on a stage over water on the shores of Lake Constance.
• Opera or musical productions on the floating stage generally tend to come from the popular operatic repertoire, but often are extravagantly original and innovative productions/ stagings, frequently using the waters of the lake as an extension of the stage. Recent productions have included Aida by Giuseppe Verdi in 2009 & 2010; Tosca by Giacomo Puccini in 2007-2008; Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi in 2005-2006; West Side Story by Leonard • Bernstein in 2003-2004; La bohème by Giacomo Puccini in 2001-2002, and "Ein Maskenball" Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi in 1999-2000.
• Festspielhaus presents performances of rarely performed opera and concerts.