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Salzburg Festival 2025
After 174 performances on 45 days at 16 venues as well as 35 performances as part of the youth programme jung & jede*r, the Salzburg Festival’s Directorate, Kristina Hammer, Markus Hinterhäuser and Lukas Crepaz, is pleased to announce a 98,4% percentage of occupied seats. 256.600 guests from 88 countries, including 49 non-European ones, attended this year’s Festival.
43 performances of six staged, three semi-staged and three concert productions made up the opera programme; they were flanked by 90 concerts. 13 of these formed part of the series Ouverture spirituelle, this year under the motto “Fatum”. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the Salzburg Festival dedicated a concert series to Dmitri Shostakovich; it also commemorated Pierre Boulez’ 100th birthday with a concert series. Numerous television and streaming productions as well as radio recordings took place. Via the partners of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the radio broadcasts and audiovisual broadcasts reached an audience of millions worldwide.
The drama programme included the revival of Jedermann directed by Robert Carsen, one world premiere, one new production, guest appearances of the Odéon-Théâtre de l´Europe and the Lucinda Childs Dance Company as well as three readings.
Of the 15 Jedermann performances, 12 took place on Cathedral Square and three at the Großes Festspielhaus. 24 August saw the 800th performance of the “play of the rich man’s dying” in Salzburg.
One world premiere and two new productions were featured in the youth programme jung & jede*r at the Schauspielhaus. The Festival mentorship programme continued successfully; furthermore, 6,000 tickets for performances in all three genres were sold at deep discounts to young persons up to the age of 27.
Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2025
“With music from five centuries, this year’s Salzburg Whitsun Festival paid homage to the city of Venice. From Monteverdi via Rossini, Verdi and Wagner to Nono and Sciarrino, and all the way to a work by Mantovani premiered only a few weeks ago, we heard mainly vocal sounds of ‘La Serenissima’ – apart from a deeply moving and virtuoso rendition of John Neumeier’s genius ballet Death in Venice. At the heart of this was Antonio Vivaldi – who else – for whom we were able to produce a veritable world premiere, thanks to a pasticcio in the baroque style created by Barrie Kosky and his team in cooperation with the conductor Gianluca Capuano and the orchestra Les Musiciens du Prince. In this way, Hotel
Metamorphosis built a bridge between the 18th and the 21st century, impressively demonstrating how today’s artists can keep the music of yesterday alive and relevant. I thank all those involved from the bottom of my heart, including the highly motivated, professional and passionate staff of the Salzburg Festival’s workshops, who kept working small miracles in the background,” says Cecilia Bartoli, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
“Salzburg is extremely fortunate to have Cecilia Bartoli. With her insightful and multifaceted panorama of Venice, she once again proved the great artistic attractiveness of her programming. Cecilia Bartoli’s dramaturgical and conceptual vision, impressively manifested this year in her first collaboration with Barrie Kosky, among other projects, reliably stands for the excellence of the Whitsun Festival,” says Markus Hinterhäuser, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival.
The 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival drew to a close with a percentage of 99 percent of seats filled, indicating an outstanding level of enthusiastic resonance among the audience.
Approximately 11.720 guests attended the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Hungary were the ten most highly represented countries, among a total of 49 nations.
The Salzburg Whitsun Festival accredited 77 journalists contributing to media in 14 countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Serbia, Latvia, Great Britain, North and South America as well as Japan.
