Euroradio Summer Festivals

Long, warm days with pleasant evenings create the perfect period for musicians to travel and perform in different venues, especially outdoor ones. As always, EBU radio organizations are there to share the atmosphere of these unique festival performances, which are featured in the Euroradio Summer Festivals offer.

This year, the EBU proudly presents a total of 298 performances, 149 of which are live network broadcasts. The 2026 lineup features 93 festivals presented by 37 organizations from 28 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Some of the notable events that can be found in this year’s offer:

• A total of 69 concerts from the BBC Proms, featuring ensembles such as Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel and Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko. Also, the festival will celebrate 200th birth anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber featuring a performance of his opera ‘Oberon’ with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
• This year marks also the 150th birth anniversary of the legendary cellist, composer and conductor Pablo (Pau) Casals. From Pau Casals International Music Festival you can hear three concerts featuring chamber music of Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and many others.
• The legendary Salzburg Festival is featured with operas such as Strauss’ ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ or Henze’s rarely heard ‘Der Prinz von Homburg’. Riccardo Muti will conduct the soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Verdi’s ‘Requiem’, while Pierre-Laurent Aimard will play multiple keyboard instruments in works by Schubert, Mozart, Schoenberg, and Webern as well as Kurtág, celebrating this composer's 100th birthday.
• A glimpse into the special world of Wagner’s musical dramas from the famous Bayreuth Festival will be featured again. ‘The Ring’ will be conducted by Christian Thielemann, while an early Wagner’s operatic work ‘Rienzi’ will be conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann.
• The International Festival of Lyrical Art in Aix-en-Provence brings two Mozart’s works from 1791: ‘Die Zauberflöte’ and ‘Requiem’, both in historically informed performances by leading early music specialists – Cappella Mediterranea with Leonardo García Alarcón and Pygmalion with Raphaël Pichon. On the programme is also Strauss’ ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ and Bartók’s ‘Bluebeartd’s Castle’.
• The International Chopin and his Europe Music Festival offers a wealth of piano music, including a performance of Chopin’s ‘Piano Concerto in E minor’ with the winner of the 2025 Chopin Competition, Eric Lu, alongside the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Payare.
• We will also get a glimpse into the world of Lucerne Festival which brings performances by Frank Dupree, Augustin Hadelich, Lukas Sternath, and Alexander Malofeev alongside Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Klaus Mäkelä, Elim Chan, and Michael Sanderling.
• This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Schubertiade festival in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems from which we feature 8 concerts including piano and song recitals as well as chamber music.

Find all the 2026 Euroradio Summer Festivals offers here.

Summer Festivals Postcards

As part of the 2022 ‘Summer Festivals Postcards’ project, please note that 15 postcards featuring the main Summer Festivals, are still available for broadcast in 2026.