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Würth Group becomes the Salzburg Festival’s New Main Sponsor in 2025

Jedermann 2024 – Director Robert Carsen in conversation

Final Press Release of the 2024 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Presentation Festival Editions 2024

2. January 2024

Mariame Clément on her Salzburg Debut: The New Production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann

The Young Singers Project 2024 –
16 Participants from 10 nations

Press Text: Artist Conversation
La clemenza di Tito

NINA KHRUSHCHEVA: Keynote Speaker at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Salzburg Festival

29. December 2023

Inauguration of the Festival Archive

30. January 2024

Two Awards for the Salzburg Festival

Direct and Online Ticket Sales Start Friday, 22 March

9. February 2024

Obituary Seiji Ozawa

21. December 2023

The Salzburg Festival’s youth programme

20. December 2023

Benefit Gala of the 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival Netted more than 186,000 Euros

6. December 2023

Press Release on the 2024 annual programme

17. November 2023

Press text Jedermann 2024

Press text Une folle journée

10. November 2023

Press Text 2024 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

31. August 2023

Final Report on the 2023 Salzburg Festival

16. August 2023

András Schiff honoured with the Ruby Festival Brooch

14. August 2023

Igor Levit will take on the solo piano part in the concert of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, stepping in for Martha Argerich

12. August 2023

Daniel Harding will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, stepping in for Franz Welser-Möst

Press Text Terrace Talk The Greek Passion

Hankyeol Yoon is the 2023 Winner of the Young Conductors Award

Press Text Terrace Talk Falstaff

Press text Terrace Talk with Peter Sellars

Press Text Terrace Talk L’Enfant et les sortilèges

Press Text Terrace Talk Nathan der Weise

Press text Terrace Talk Macbeth

Young Singers Project 2023

Philippe Jordan will conduct Macbeth, taking over from Franz Welser-Möst

Final Press Release of the 2023 Whitsun Festival

Presentation Festival Editions 2023

Press Kit: The Magical Reality of Theatre – Celebrating Max Reinhardt’s 150th Birthday

Leporello on the exhibitions: The Magical Reality of Theatre

Press Kit: The Festival Centre Becomes Reality

Press text Lunch Talk Orfeo ed Euridice: Can Death be Overcome?

Anton Zeilinger: Keynote Speaker for 2023 Opening Ceremony of the Salzburg Festival

Maxime Pascal on the New Opera Production The Greek Passion

The three finalists of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2023

17. February 2023

Tabea Zimmermann and Pierre-Laurent Aimard on the Concert Series Time with LIGETI

14. February 2023

The Salzburg Festival Mourns the Death of Friedrich Cerha

5. February 2023

The Salzburg Festival mourns the death of Jürgen Flimm

24. January 2023

On 24 January, Individual Tickets go on sale for the 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

13. January 2023

Festival de Salzbourg Pentecôte 2023

13. January 2023

Festival de Salzbourg 2023

3. January 2023

Salzburg Whitsun Festival, 26 – 29 May 2023: Interviews with the Artistic Director Cecilia BARTOLI and the Director and Choreographer Christof LOY

19. December 2022

The Salzburg Festival’s Audio-Visual Collection in the National Austrian “Memory of the World” Registry

9. December 2022

Press kit 2023 Salzburg Festival

9. December 2022

Press text 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Valerie Pachner and Michael Maertens actress and actor

1. December 2022

Press Conference Jedermann 2023: New Jedermann and Death / Paramour

Marina Davydova designated Director of Drama

24. November 2022

Marina Davydova appointed Director of Drama of the Salzburg Festival as of 2024

30. August 2022

Final Report on the 2022 Salzburg Festival

Salzburger Festspiele Concert

30. August 2022

Huge Media Echo for the Festival: 7 TV and Streaming Productions and 21 Radio Recordings

30. August 2022

Final Report: Photo Service 2022

29. August 2022

Successful Partnership with Audi as Main Sponsor of the Salzburg Festival Extended through 2027

26. August 2022

Salzburg Festival Donates 100,000 Euro to Charities

24. August 2022

Daniel Harding takes over the second concert of Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic

Shirin Neshat

Aida – I try to speak to all human beings

Eve-Maud Hubeaux takes on the role of Amneris

Yuja Wang Pianist

Cancellation of Evgeny Kissin Solo Recital. Stepping in: Yuja Wang in Festival recital debut

Káťa Kabanová – It’s a piece about all of us

Quiet is always more difficult than loud

Romeo Castellucci

Romeo Castellucci about Bartóks Herzog Blaubarts Burg / Carl Orffs De Temporum fine comoedia

A Polyphony of Desire

Siemens Festival>Nights 2022

TerraceTalk Die Zauberflöte 2022: Joana Mallwitz (Conductor), Lydia Steier (Director)

Press Text: Terrace Talk Die Zauberflöte “What is still reality, what already a dream?”

Young Singers Project 2022

Ilija Trojanow Author

Ilija Trojanow to Deliver Keynote Address Opening the 2022 Salzburg Festival

Cecilia Bartoli Opera singer

Final Press Release of the 2022 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Press Release jung & jede*r

Barrie Kosky director

15. February 2022

First Glimpses of the New Opera Production Káťa Kabanová. Director Barrie Kosky in Conversation

Salzburg Festival Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser Festival President Kristina Hammer and Lukas Crepaz, Executive Director

21. January 2022

The 2022 Salzburg Festival: First Ticket Order Deadline 24 January

Cecilia Bartoli Opera singer

30. December 2021

Interview with Cecilia Bartoli about the Whitsun Festival 2022

Masks pillar Salzburger Festspiele

10. December 2021

The 2022 Salzburg Festival

Cecilia Bartoli Opera singer

6. December 2021

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2022 SEVILLA

Kristina Hammer Salzburg Festival President

24. November 2021

Kristina Hammer Appointed New President of the Salzburg Festival

Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink Conductor

22. October 2021

The Salzburg Festival mourns the death of Bernard Haitink

Masks pillar Salzburger Festspiele

27. August 2021

Final Report on the 2021 Salzburg Festival

3. January 2024

Clément’s Salzburg debut: Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”

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9. July 2024

Die Orestie | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

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19. June 2024

Spiegelneuronen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

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17. May 2024

La clemenza di Tito | Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

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8. May 2024

Don Giovanni | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Teaser

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16. February 2024

Midsummer Night’s Dream | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

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5. February 2024

Spiegelneuronen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Stefan Kaegi

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12. December 2023

The Gambler | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Peter Sellars

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12. December 2023

The Idiot | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

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12. December 2023

The Idiot | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Krzysztof Warlikowski

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15. December 2023

Sternstunden der Menschheit | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Thom Luz

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12. December 2023

Les Contes d’Hoffmann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Mariame Clément

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12. December 2023

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Robert Carsen

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12. December 2023

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Philipp Hochmair

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12. December 2023

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Deleila Piasko

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12. December 2023

Everything that happened and would happen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Heiner Goebbels

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12. December 2023

La clemenza di Tito | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Robert Carsen

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12. December 2023

Don Giovanni | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Romeo Castellucci

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5. February 2024

Best of Salzburg Festival 2023_NEU

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Die Orestie | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

Spiegelneuronen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

La clemenza di Tito | Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

Don Giovanni | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Teaser

Midsummer Night’s Dream | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Trailer 1

Spiegelneuronen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Stefan Kaegi

The Gambler | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Peter Sellars

The Idiot | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

The Idiot | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Krzysztof Warlikowski

Sternstunden der Menschheit | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Thom Luz

Les Contes d’Hoffmann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Mariame Clément

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Robert Carsen

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Philipp Hochmair

Jedermann | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Deleila Piasko

Everything that happened and would happen | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Heiner Goebbels

La clemenza di Tito | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Robert Carsen

Don Giovanni | Salzburg Festival 2024 – Statement Romeo Castellucci

Best of Salzburg Festival 2023_NEU

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The economy and the Salzburg Festival? This is often reduced to mere “indirect profitability” benefiting the state. However, as the world’s leading festival of music and theatre, the Salzburg Festival creates far more than mere fiscal effects – as the centre of an organically grown economic ecosystem, it fulfils many functions and affects Salzburg profoundly as a location for business and companies.

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Repertoire Archive

When did Anne-Sophie Mutter make her debut at the Salzburg Festival? How often did Herbert von Karajan conduct Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Salzburg?

Answers to all those questions can be found in our Repertoire Archive.

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