Opera Camps

In cooperation with the Vienna Philharmonic and with financial support from the Salzburg Foundation of the American Austrian Foundation (AAF) and the Friends of the Salzburg Festival

Do you want to find out how exciting opera can be, and meet new like-minded friends from other countries? The Salzburg Festival’s Opera Camps make it possible! For one week, everything is about one opera. You will hear it performed by the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival and get a chance to peek behind the scenes! The music, the plot, the figures and their feelings are best discovered by playing, singing and acting yourself, and even designing your own sets. At Arenberg Castle, you develop your own opera together with professionals – then the stage is yours! Members of the Vienna Philharmonic coach the ensemble and perform at the joint public final performance.

Once again, the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic present their opera camps for children and teenagers aged 9 to 17. An international team of pedagogues and artists surrounding Hanne Muthspiel-Payer develops various concepts in order to open the doors of the operatic world to children and young people.

No more applications possible, but you are invited to join the final performances with free admission!

Falstaff Camp on the opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi

For teenagers aged 9 to 13
Monday, July 22, to Sunday, July 28, 2013
Final performance: July 28, 2013, 4:00 p.m., republic
Free admission

Nikolaus Habjan – Puppetry
Lisa Zingerle – Puppet Design
Hannah Heckhausen – Theatre education
Christoph Wigelbeyer – Choir
Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth – Ensemble play
Klaus Schneider – Music conveying
Hanne Muthspiel-Payer – Direction

Meistersinger Camp on the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner

For teenagers aged 13 to 17
Monday, July 29, to Sunday, August 4, 2013
Final performance: August 4, 2013, 3:00 p.m., republic
Free admission

Christiane Lutz – Direction
Hanna Adloui-Müller – Costumes
Christoph Wigelbeyer – Choir
Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth – Ensemble play
Hanne Muthspiel-Payer – Direction

This opera camp focuses on instrumental music, therefore participants must have studied their instrument for a minimum of four years and have experience in orchestral, chamber music oder ensemble playing.

Fees: € 430,- per Camp*

* The admission fee includes workshops, rehearsal attendance, room and board, leisure time activities and the camp DVD
* There is a price reduction for siblings of 5%
* Scholarships are available for children from low-income families