Details of the 2025 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music have been made public.

For the purposes of this article only vocal performances are featured.

Concerts

First Prize winner of the 2020 Cesti International Singing Competition Margherita Maria Sala performs works by Galuppi, Marcello, Vivaldi, Ristori, and Handel. Sala is accompanied by the Ensemble Locatelli led by Thomas Chigioni.

Performance Date: August 1, 2025

Céline Scheen performs with La Chimera under the musical direction of lutist Eduardo Egüez in “The Queen’s Lover.”

Performance Date: August 2, 2025

Carlotta Colombo, Žiga Čopi, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, and Marco Saccardin present the concert titled “Scarlatti!” They are joined by Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone.

Performance Date: August 11, 2025

“Wonder Women” features music by and about women including the works of Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Isabella Leonarda, Maurizio Cazzati, and Andrea Falconieri. Céline Scheen, Benedetta Mazzucato, Luciana Mancini, and Vincenzo Capezzuto serve as soloists. Christina Pluhar leads L’Arpeggiata.

Performance Date: August 13, 2025

“Shakespeare’s Songbook” is performed by the early music folk ensemble The Playfords.

Performance Date: August 15, 2025

Ana Vieira Leite and Eva Zaïcik solo in “Im Zauberwald” with Le Concert de la Loge led byJulien Chauvin.

Performance Date: August 16, 2025

Ana Vieira Leite and Concerto 1700 directed by Daniel Pinteno present works by Handel in “Harmonie.”

Performance Date: August 18, 2025

La fonte musica presents the concert “Combattimento,” led by Michele Pasotti.

Performance Date: August 20, 2025

The Chor der Stiftsmusik Stams perform with Paluselli Consort Stams under the musical direction of Jannik Trescher in “Musik im Gottesdienst.”

Performance Date: August 24, 2025

Claire Lefilliâtre is the soloist in “Tag und Nacht” with Les Épopées led by Stéphane Fuget.

Performance Date: August 24, 2025

“Choral & Kontrapunkt” is presented by Vox Luminis. Lionel Meunier conducts.

Performance Date: August 26, 2025

“Salonmusik”stars Jiayu Jin and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Performance Date: August 28, 2025

Andreas Scholl and Ottavio Dantone give a concert of works by Henry Purcell and Georg Friedrich Händel.

Performance Date: August 30, 2025

The festival concludes with the 16th annual “Pietro Antonio Cesti” competition.

Performance Date: August 31, 2025

Opera

Marie Lys, Shakèd Bar, Neima Fischer, Lawrence Kilsby, Carlo Vistoli, Martin Vanberg, Filippo Mineccia, and Giacomo Nanni star in Caldara’s “Ifigenia in Aulide.” Ottavio Dantone conducts.

Performance Dates: August 8 – 12, 2025

Vivaldi’s “Il Giustino” is presented by Justina Vaitkute, Maximiliano Danta, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Lucija Varšić, Jiayu Jin, Sarah Hayashi, Benedetta Zanotto, and Massimo Frigato, with Talenti Vulcanici led by Stefano Demicheli. Claudia Isabel Martin directs.

Performance Dates: August 17- 22, 2025

“Ifigenia in Tauride” by Traetta is performed by Rocío Pérez, Alasdair Kent, Karolina Bengtsson, Owen Willetts, and Suzanne Jerosme, along with NovoCanto and Les Talens Lyriques. Nicola Raab directs and Christophe Rousset conducts.

Performance Dates: August 27-29, 2025