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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.

You are looking for press releases of previous years? Photos, podcasts and press texts from past seasons to 2018 can be found in our press 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.