Siemens was a Project Sponsor from 1995 to 1998 and has been a Main Sponsor since 1999.

The Salzburg Festival, with its outstanding reputation as the largest and most important festival in the world, and Siemens, the internationally leading high-tech company, have much in common. Both place particular emphasis on the combination of tradition and innovation, continuity and creativity.

Since 1995, Siemens has supported the Salzburg Festival, becoming a Main Sponsor in 1999. With this sponsoring engagement, Siemens consciously takes on cultural and social responsibility without ever interfering with artistic decisions. “As part of our sponsoring activities, we try to develop our own cultural initiatives, thus aiming for real support for the arts, not just ‘giving away money.’ We wish to develop our own cultural projects, with a focus on technology as a transfer medium, and on supporting art that is to be made accessible to a broad public, especially to young people.”

This has motivated Siemens to present the “Siemens Festival>Nights” in Salzburg’s historic town since 2002. Every summer, Festival productions are shown free of charge as open-air broadcasts on a large-scale LED wall. Diverse culinary offerings as well as the incomparable ambiance of the Kapitelplatz, with its view of the castle Hohensalzburg, make the Siemens Festival>Nights a wonderful overall experience – record attendance numbers of 70,000 visitors per year underline the quality of the events and make them a fixed part of the Salzburg Festival summer.