CONDUCTOR Nicholas Milton / Carinthian Symphony Orchestra

After four glorious years, Nicholas Milton bids farewell as chief conductor of the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra. The gala concert begins with Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, one of the most magnificent creations of musical Romanticism. Following a painful struggle of contrasting moods, typical for Tchaikovsky, it culminates in a swirling celebration of joy, where even the power of fate is brought to its knees. In the second part of the concert, Nicholas Milton and the CSO look back on special highlights of their collaboration with a series of surprise pieces, always characterized by brilliant sound and virtuosic joy of playing.

After the great success of the previous year, the music schools of the state of Carinthia invite you once again to the grand joint presentation concert on June 17 with SOUNDS OF CARINTHIA at the Klagenfurt Concert House, which takes you into the world of the diverse sounds of musical youth under the motto WE LOVE MUSIC.
A colorful concert program with many highlights and premieres from various fields of the music schools of Carinthia will be offered. The internationally recognized Austrian singer, vocal coach, and songwriter Monika Ballwein is expected as a special guest. The concert will be broadcast live by ORF Carinthia - as a live stream on kaernten.orf.at and live on Radio Kärnten.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

They break down the walls between traditional folk music and hot pop music. Beatboxing and live looping meet trumpet, accordion, and garden hose. Choirs and bands are accompanied by rocking drum grooves. MATAKUSTIX are musical boundary crossers, equipped with extraordinary skill, a lot of heart, and endless creativity. Artists like Alle Achtung, Semino Rossi, Thomas Spitzer, Ina Regen, Tagtraeumer, or the Poxrucker Sisters have already been guests at their gigantic live shows.

The "alternative folk musicians" will also set off a firework of musical emotions in 2025 together with many high-profile surprise guests.

The concert will be the only one that the band will give in their homeland in 2025.

Electric Summer Vibes



Klagenfurt – On Friday, June 27, 2025, the Schleppe open-air arena in Klagenfurt will transform into a pulsating festival zone.


The event starts at 6:00 PM, and from 7:00 PM, popular DJs will take over. Joining are two of the currently most sought-after names in the scene – Luca-Dante Spadafora and NoooN – who will provide danceable sounds, viral hits, and packed dance floors.

Luca-Dante Spadafora



COME ON, GIRLS, HOLD ON TIGHT AND LET'S RIDE INTO THE SUN!



In the summer of 2023, no one could have missed these lines. The "Summer Hit of the Year" was produced by Luca-Dante Spadafora in collaboration with Niklas Dee and singer Octavian, securing him the number 1 spot in the German and Austrian single charts.



NoooN



NoooN is more than ready to ignite his turbo for the new year. With nearly a million monthly listeners and hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram, the charming Austrian has established himself not only as a musician but also as an entertainer on and off the stage.
Whether through songs like "Nüsse sind gesund," "Sali Bonani," "Der Bass," "Bameninhong," "BUTZEMANN," or remixes like "Ketchup Song" and "Quellkartoffel un Dupp-Dupp" – NoooN stands for creative ideas and energetic sets.

Also joining are: Churcher, Smurfy, Amello, Dropstar, DJ Pagix, and Dr. Hendrix – all of them together will ensure a first-class musical experience.

Film screening followed by a discussion with the director

“Vaccine criticism of the box office hit” (Free Academy for Media and Journalism)

“An incredibly moving film”

“I was Goosebumps from the beginning”

“Thank you for this important work!”

Even incarcerated in a Russian prison, director Schenja Berkowitsch did not let herself be discouraged and wrote a fable, which was exclusively translated by Kerstin Holm for the Carinthian Summer and is presented on stage in a version by Angelika Messner.

Schenja Berkowitsch
Birgit Minichmayr, reading

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

Melissa Naschenweng "Daham"
Wörthersee East Bay Klagenfurt / on the Starnacht stage
Live with a band, she celebrates her second Wörthersee Open Air

Melissa Naschenweng, 32 years young, raised in the Carinthian Lesachtal and for more than two years now more than just a shooting star in the music market.

In three months, her number 1 chart album 'Wirbelwind' has crossed the gold threshold, with over 180 performances a year and YouTube clicks beyond 10 million. These achievements do not happen by chance, but rather through Melissa's LederHosenRock that she plays, sings, and lives!

Melissa and her pink harmonica, topped only by her pink leather pants, driving over the Lesachtaler alpine meadows in a pink tractor. What may seem abstract at first or like a cartoon is in fact nothing more than the space of a young artist who does not dance to the unwritten rules of the Schlager and entertainment industry.

The grandeur of Romanticism

The program of the WoertherSee Classics Festival 2025 is dedicated to the music of this era. Our season is characterized by an orchestra that will be presented in Austria for the first time.

The Changsha Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading orchestras of the People's Republic of China, is coming to Carinthia to captivate the audience over four symphonic evenings, each featuring four symphonies by Johannes Brahms.

Together with this renowned ensemble, outstanding musicians will perform. Tao Fan, Alexei Kornienko, Adrian Schur, and Dian Tschobanov will conduct the symphonic jewels of Johannes Brahms in succession. Carefully selected soloists: Jeremias Fliedl, cello, Lovro Pogorelić, piano, Elena Denisova, violin, and Cong Fan, piano, powerfully emphasize the romantic waves of music.

Dvořák, Gioachino Rossini, Ferenc Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Carl Maria Weber will crown the resounding world of Romanticism from June 30 to July 3, 2025 and highlight the celebrations of "125 years of the concert hall" in Klagenfurt at Lake Wörther.

Assuming FAUST is a woman. A successful and intelligent woman who has achieved everything in her career and is now questioning the meaning of life. How should I live? How should I love? The historical tragedy thus becomes the matrix for a review and performative deconstruction of female life concepts in patriarchal realities. What does it mean when a woman despairs of life and makes a pact with the devil? What does it mean when Gretchen is a man and Faust pressures him with his claims of ownership? With these contemporary questions, the audience is to be confronted and offered a modern perspective on the traditional material.

The grandeur of Romanticism

The program of the WoertherSee Classics Festival 2025 is dedicated to the music of this era. Our season is characterized by an orchestra that will be presented in Austria for the first time.

The Changsha Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading orchestras of the People's Republic of China, is coming to Carinthia to captivate the audience over four symphonic evenings, each featuring four symphonies by Johannes Brahms.

Together with this renowned ensemble, outstanding musicians will perform. Tao Fan, Alexei Kornienko, Adrian Schur, and Dian Tschobanov will conduct the symphonic jewels of Johannes Brahms in succession. Carefully selected soloists: Jeremias Fliedl, cello, Lovro Pogorelić, piano, Elena Denisova, violin, and Cong Fan, piano, powerfully emphasize the romantic waves of music.

Dvořák, Gioachino Rossini, Ferenc Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Carl Maria Weber will crown the resounding world of Romanticism from June 30 to July 3, 2025 and highlight the celebrations of "125 years of the concert hall" in Klagenfurt at Lake Wörther.