Recap Salzburg Festival 2025
After 174 performances in 45 days at 16 venues, as well as 35 productions in the youth programme “jung & jeder”*, the directorate of the Salzburg Festival, Kristina Hammer, Markus Hinterhäuser and Lukas Crepaz, is delighted to report an attendance rate of 98.4%. More than 250,000 visitors from 88 countries attended this year’s festival.
The programme comprised:
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43 opera performances: six staged, three semi-staged and three in concert version
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90 concerts, including 13 in the Ouverture Spirituelle series under the theme “Fatum”, as well as commemorative cycles dedicated to Dmitri Shostakovich (50th anniversary of his death) and Pierre Boulez (100th anniversary of his birth)
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Drama: alongside the revival of Jedermann, one world premiere, one new production, guest performances by the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe and the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and three readings
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Youth programme “jung & jede*r”: one world premiere, two new productions and the successful continuation of the Festival Patrons scheme; in addition, 6,000 tickets for under-27s were sold across all three genres

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