Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor

The Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir appears at major concerts and in opera productions at the Salzburg Festival and also at the Landestheater, offering children and adolescents a thorough, all-round training in singing and music, in addition to giving them a first-hand impression of professional work in the theatre. The choir has been directed by Wolfgang Götz since 2008. Regina Sgier is its vocal coach.

In addition to its own concerts, the Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir has performed at the Salzburg Festival under such eminent conductors as Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta and Franz Welser-Möst, and with orchestras including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. It has shared the stage with the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the WDR Radio Choir, the SWR Vocal Ensemble (Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival 2026) and the Ber-lin Radio Choir (Salzburg Easter Festival 2026).

Concert highlights have included Henze’s Das Floß der Medusa under Ingo Metzmacher (2025), Mahler’s Third Symphony under Esa-Pekka Salonen (2008), Gustavo Dudamel (2013) and Andris Nelsons (2021), Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under Dudamel (2013) and Kirill Petrenko (Easter Festival 2026), Britten’s War Requiem under Antonio Pappano (2013) and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (2021), Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher under Bertrand de Billy (2010) and Maxime Pascal (2022) and Bach’s St Matthew Passion under Simon Rattle (2010) and Teodor Currentzis (2025). On the opera stage the choir has appeared in works including Die Frau ohne Schatten, Macbeth, Carmen, La bohème, Das Labyrinth: Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil, Der Rosenkavalier, Wozzeck, Rihm’s Jakob Lenz, The Queen of Spades, Œdipe, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Orff’s De temporum fine comoedia und Martinů’s The Greek Passion.

The choir regularly appears in its own productions at the Salzburg Landestheater, among them Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu (2014), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2017) and Peter Pan (2022) as well as, since 2009, The Sound of Music. The choir has made guest appearances including at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Palais im Großen Garten in Dresden and the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre. It has also participated in various television and film productions.