Cesar Bresgen, Herbert Lauermann, Karl Heinz Füssl, Dieter Kaufmann, Kurt Schwertsik, Iván Eröd, Peter Planyavsky, Thomas Daniel Schlee, Bruno Strobl, Gottfried von Einem).
[4] Chamber operas written by contemporary composers were also premiered in Villach between 1993 and 2003 (Gerhard Schedl, Wolfram Wagner, Hugo Käch, René Clemencic).
[6] The festival gained international reputation through world-famous soloists and conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Aigul Akhmetshina, Benjamin Appl, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Yefim Bronfman, Grace Bumbry, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, René Clemencic Alma Deutscher, Christoph von Dohnányi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Bernarda Fink, Ádám Fischer, Sir James Galway, Bruno Ganz, John Eliot Gardiner, Nicolai Gedda, Valery Gergiev, Emil Gilels, Martin Grubinger, Hilary Hahn, Hans and Martin Haselböck, Michael Heltau, Cyprien Katsaris, Lukas Kranzelbinder, Gidon Kremer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Marjana Lipovšek, Lorin Maazel, Oleg Maisenberg, Mischa Maisky, Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Tobias Moretti, Riccardo Muti, Roger Norrington, David Oistrakh, Seiji Ozawa, Boris Pergamenschikow, Markus Poschner, Will Quadflieg, Ruggero Raimondi, Carole Dawn Reinhart, Katia Ricciarelli, Mstislav Rostropovich, Peter Schreier, Horst Stein, Henryk Szeryng and many more.
From 2004 onwards, the "Carinthian Landscape" was expanded by opening up new venues in the immediate vicinity of Ossiach and Villach (Domenig Steinhaus, Pfarrkirche Tiffen, Damtschach Castle).
The initiators and founders were the Ossiach parish provost Jakob Stingl, the musician (solo trumpeter of the Vienna Philharmonic) and manager Helmut Wobisch and Nikolaus Fheodoroff (composer, conductor, pianist and musical director of the ORF regional studio in Carinthia).
The following regular artists of the Carinthian Summer were appointed honorary members: Paul Badura-Skoda, Rudolf Buchbinder, Gottfried von Einem, Robert Holl, Christa Ludwig.