Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

[3] Among the conductors who have appeared at the festival are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jordi Savall, Sigiswald Kuijken, John Eliot Gardiner and Alan Curtis.

Operas which have been performed at the festival (many of them in their first performance in modern times) include Cesti's L'Orontea and L'Argia, Cavalli's Giasone and Serse, Conti's Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, Sartorio's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Handel's Flavio and Rinaldo, Telemann's Orpheus; Hasse's Solimano, Haydn's Il mondo della luna, Mozart's La finta semplice, and Gassmann's L'opera seria The festival's concerts are often centered on a particular theme.

[4] In 2010, Alessandro De Marchi initiated the festival's International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti.

Selected finalists also perform the following year in the festival's "Baroque Opera: Young" ("Barockoper: Jung") production which takes place in the inner courtyard of the University of Innsbruck's Theology Faculty.

Past "Baroque Opera: Young" productions have included Cesti's Orontea, Lully's Armide, and a double-bill of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Blow's Venus and Adonis.

Ambras Castle , one of the festival's main concert venues
Wilten Abbey Church, where Alessandro Stradella 's oratorio Susanna was performed during the 1979 festival