Ticket information
Opening hours ticket office
Monday to Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Salzburg Festival Shop
Monday to Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, 20 June closed.
Due to the construction work for the new Festival Centre, the ticket office can be found at the following address until its completion:
Ticket Office:
Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 3
5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel. +43 662 8045 500
info@salzburgfestival.at
Salzburg Festival Shop:
Hofstallgasse 1
5020 Salzburg, Austria
Salzburg Festival 2025
‘I am being given birth into death,’ remarks Samuel Beckett’s character Malone in a monologue that dissolves time and space, leaving only the nothingness of the end. The endgame of human existence is where we find the protagonists of this summer’s Salzburg Festival: siblings languishing in the Russian provinces in Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters, a woman lost in the forest in Schoenberg’s Erwartung and a mournful, lonely wanderer in Mahler’s ‘Der Abschied’. The doctor in Vladimir Sorokin’s deadly blizzard is likewise caught up in extreme circumstances, as is the despondent prophetess Cassandra in Michael Jarrell’s adaptation of Christa Wolf’s novella.
Along the way, we will be transported to the historical power bases Caesar built up in Rome and Egypt, to Macbeth’s Scotland and to Tudor England where Mary Stuart was imprisoned. We meet powerful people who are facing the inevitable. They are all close to the end, whether staring right into it (Verdi’s and Sciarrino’s Macbeth), fearing it (Handel’s Giulio Cesare), choreographing it triumphantly (Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda) or longingly calling for it (characters in Three Sisters). They spend their final moments in lonely abandonment (Jarrell’s Cassandra), in a state of feverish anxiety (the protagonist of Erwartung), or in cosmic repose, having found comfort and spiritual transcendence (in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde).
Our questions, our doubts, our loneliness, our fears and our brightest hopes are all writ large in the works programmed at the Festival this summer, brought into sharp clarity as if by a magnifying glass. We see them much as Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann looks back on his life, his memories rapidly curdling in his final hours — yet he still finds redemption.
While Macbeth summons the end of the world and Karl Kraus, haunted by the horrors of war, feels he is standing ‘before the deathbed of time’ in his monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, Mahler’s wanderer sees a glimmer of hope: ‘Everywhere and forever the distance shines bright and blue!’ For Mozart, the light always breaks through — and even Sorokin’s blizzard takes us ‘to the epicentre of a blinding brightness’. In the end, every vision of worldly doom also carries within it a vision of something new.
The tension between our current actions and our vision of the future is what defines our humanity.
This brings up the great philosophical question of human free will: are we truly able to choose between different courses of action, or are outcomes predetermined by fate? In the Ouverture spirituelle, we will plumb the depths of this question.
However differently an ending is portrayed and composed, and no matter how it is anticipated, feared or invoked — it is only through the playful nature of art that we can see ourselves reflected in others, and be present with them as they face their own endings. For the observers and for the audience — that is to say, for us — this expands our capacity to act meaningfully, opening up new spaces for imagination, change and transformation.
Kristina Hammer · Markus Hinterhäuser · Lukas Crepaz
Board of Directors of the Salzburg Festival
Ticket allocation procedure
- All orders are requested in writing by the deadline 21 January 2025:
- online: www.salzburgfestival.at
We provide instructions here to assist you. - by mail:
Ticket office of the Salzburg Festival
P.O. Box 140
5010 Salzburg, Austria - All orders arriving at the latest by the deadline will be handled equally, irrespective of when they arrive. This means that orders are not processed in the order in which they arrive. Notification of the extent to which the order is processed as requested will be sent by end of March 2025 at the latest.
Orders received after the deadline will only be processed after all orders placed before the deadline have been filled. - Orders from club members, patrons, association members and subscribers are given priority and are linked to the current member status. Here you can find more information about the Friends’ Association (Verein der Freunde).
- When ordering a wheelchair seat, it must be announced whether a seat for the accompanying person is required in the immediate vicinity. Detailed information on all wheelchair spaces in the individual venues and on the subject of accessibility can be found here.
- Once the order phase is complete, direct sales will start on 21 March 2025.
Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2025
“With music from five centuries, this year’s Salzburg Whitsun Festival paid homage to the city of Venice. From Monteverdi via Rossini, Verdi and Wagner to Nono and Sciarrino, and all the way to a work by Mantovani premiered only a few weeks ago, we heard mainly vocal sounds of ‘La Serenissima’ – apart from a deeply moving and virtuoso rendition of John Neumeier’s genius ballet Death in Venice. At the heart of this was Antonio Vivaldi – who else – for whom we were able to produce a veritable world premiere, thanks to a pasticcio in the baroque style created by Barrie Kosky and his team in cooperation with the conductor Gianluca Capuano and the orchestra Les Musiciens du Prince. In this way, Hotel
Metamorphosis built a bridge between the 18th and the 21st century, impressively demonstrating how today’s artists can keep the music of yesterday alive and relevant. I thank all those involved from the bottom of my heart, including the highly motivated, professional and passionate staff of the Salzburg Festival’s workshops, who kept working small miracles in the background,” says Cecilia Bartoli, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
“Salzburg is extremely fortunate to have Cecilia Bartoli. With her insightful and multifaceted panorama of Venice, she once again proved the great artistic attractiveness of her programming. Cecilia Bartoli’s dramaturgical and conceptual vision, impressively manifested this year in her first collaboration with Barrie Kosky, among other projects, reliably stands for the excellence of the Whitsun Festival,” says Markus Hinterhäuser, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival.
The 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival drew to a close with a percentage of 99 percent of seats filled, indicating an outstanding level of enthusiastic resonance among the audience.
Approximately 11.720 guests attended the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Hungary were the ten most highly represented countries, among a total of 49 nations.
The Salzburg Whitsun Festival accredited 77 journalists contributing to media in 14 countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Serbia, Latvia, Great Britain, North and South America as well as Japan.
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Frequently asked questions
Still have questions about tickets or looking for a specific ticket information? Frequently asked questions are answered in our FAQ section.
Ordering:
- Once the programme is released, tickets can be ordered.
- Orders must include details such as the performance, number of tickets, and category, but exact seats cannot be chosen.
- Orders are collected up to a specified deadline, after which tickets are allocated continuously until the end of March.
- Up to a thousand orders a day are processed by the team of the ticket office, booked, and billed. Orders by members of the Friends of the Salzburg Festival (including club members, patrons and sponsors), which support us financially, thus helping to enable much of our programme in the first place, are processed first.
- The order processing takes into account how long a customer has been attending the festival, as maintaining relationships with long-term visitors is important.
- Due to high demand, not all requests can be fulfilled, and the chances of a successful allocation increase if the order is more flexible in terms of performance, date, and price categories.
Buying:
- After all orders have been processed, direct sales begin. At this point, all remaining tickets are available for purchase.
- During direct sales, specific seat selections are possible.
- Tickets can be purchased via the website, by phone, or at the ticket office.
- The ticket sale for Whitsun starts with the subscription sale, which has already started.
- Individual tickets will be available from 20 January 2025.
Summer:
- Tickets can be ordered as soon as the programme is published (early December).
- Orders will be collected until the deadline (21.01.2025) and then be processed.
- Orders must be made in writing. You can place an order via the website or using the order form.
- The time of the order has no influence on the processing; it is important that the order is placed before the deadline.
- No seats can be selected when ordering, only sectors and the category.
- Orders are no guarantee of a ticket allocation.
- After the order phase, direct sales will start (the exact date will be announced).
- Orders will be collected until the deadline (21 January 2025) and then processed.
- The time of the order has no influence on the processing; it is simply important that the order is placed before the deadline.
- No seats can be selected when ordering, only sectors and the category.
- Orders are no guarantee for a ticket allocation.
Start of direct sales: 21 March 2025
- From 21 March 2025 you can buy tickets directly on our website.
- The tickets correspond to the selected seats in the selected category.
- Orders will be collected until the deadline (21 January 2025).
- From 21 January 2025 orders will be allocated.
- All orders received by the deadline will be treated equally.
- This means that orders are not processed in the order in which they arrive.
- Orders from club members, patrons, association members and subscribers are prioritised and are linked to the current membership status.
- You will receive notification of the extent to which your order has been processed as requested in the end of March the latest.
- Orders are requested by the deadline (21 January 2025).
- The time of the order has no influence on the processing
- Orders received after the deadline will only be processed after all orders placed before the deadline have been filled.
- Yes, Orders can be edited or cancelled up to 21 January 2025. After this date they are binding.
- Instructions can be found here
- a positive allocation in the form of an invoice
- if no allocation was possible, you will receive a message by e-mail / letter no later than the end of March.
- Subscription: as of now
- Individual tickets: from 20. January 2025
Summer 2025
- Direct sales will start after the order phase on 21. March 2025
- E-tickets will be delivered free of charge by e-mail link or online at My Festival.
- Printed tickets can be sent by registered mail for a fee (€ 6.– for Austria, € 7.– for Germany and € 12.– for other countries) or be picked up in the ticket office or box office. From four weeks before the first performance booked, there is only the possibility to pick up the printed tickets on site or to book them as an e-ticket.
Please let us know when placing your order or making your purchase how you would like to receive the tickets.
Detailed information on the venues can be found at www.salzburgfestival.at/en/venues