Holidays in Salzburg

Party as celebrations and festivals come around - it is a joy to travel to Salzburg in any "sounding" season and so glamorous as it always was: Mozart Week in January, when snow caps cover the pompous buildings of the princes' town, Easter and Whitsun Festivals, Salzburg Festivals.

The cultural life presents itself first class and very varied. Salzburg attracts merchants, artists, heads of state, scientists, and dignitaries from all over the world.

During the Advent season, when the entrances of the old bourgeois houses in the tight alleys are atmospherically alight, advent singing and the Christkindl market are very inviting. Palace concerts in Mirabell Palace, avant-garde events in the "scene" are held all year round, the jazz festival in November.

Salzburg Palace Concerts

Welcome to the largest concert series with 300 concerts per year in one of the most beautiful concert halls, in the marble hall of Mirabell Palace.
Being the only Salzburg event organiser we provide a vast amount - in 2001 263 musicians and 40 ensembles from at least 24 countries performed - of internationally renowned artists as well as young musicians which are on the verge of becoming famous with a coveted podium. Highly talented Salzburg and Austrian award winners are given special attention who play themselves into the hearts of our audience.
Visit our palace concert, get away from it all and enjoy the only worldwide language - MUSIC!

Mozart Dinner Concert

A musical and culinary seduction in the stylish ambience of the historic baroque hall in Stiftskeller St Peter.
Enjoy the most famous compositions of W. A. Mozart with a candlelight atmosphere - played by Salzburg artists in historic costumes and a meal of several courses prepared according to traditional recipes of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Experience the attitude of life of Mozart's Salzburg along with its gay clothes and culinary indulgences, be enchanted, be Mozart's guest!

Experience the attitude of life of Mozart's Salzburg along with its gay clothes and culinary indulgences, be enchanted, be Mozart's guest!

Marionette Theatre

Attending Mozart's "The Magic Flute" or another opera in the world famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre is an absolute must when visiting Salzburg.
If you think this is all about children's plays, you are wrong, as the operas of the repertoire of a great opera house are played to the leading audio recordings. Of course the Marionette Theatre is also an ideal medium to introduce children to the great opera.

Artists with international reputation, especially directors and stage designers repeatedly work for the Salzburg Marionette. Taking part in the Salzburg Festivals and Easter Festivals Salzburg underlines the quality of its performances.

Landestheatre Salzburg

Welcome to the Salzburg Landestheatre!
From September to June we offer operas, plays, ballet, operettas, musicals, youth and children's theatre.
In the Landestheatre, the Großes Festspielhaus (October), the Kleines Festspielhaus (February), the Kammerspiele and occasionally at other places of Salzburg too such as the Stadtkino!

Elisabethbühne

The Elisabethbühne is Salzburg's playhouse and the largest free ensemble theatre in Austria. With approximately ten theatre productions and a children's play per term two theatre halls are played from September until the beginning of July every day. The carefully selected repertoire offers with plays from the ancient world over classics to modernity, from tragedies to comedies to new, experimental forms of theatre a wide range for all theatre fans of all ages.
A drama school and a publishing house for children's musicals are attached to the theatre.

The theatre is located in Petersbrunnhof, a former estate of the monastery St Peter in Salzburg's quarter Nonntal, right under the fort in the southern centre of the city. This historic building whose origins go as far back as the Middle Ages was generously renovated some years ago by the Land Salzburg and supplied with state-of-the-art theatre technology.

Sound of Music Show

"The Hills are Alive", "Do-Re-Mi", "Edelweiß", "Sixteen going on Seventeen",… these and many other highlights from films you will find in the show. You will find a programme which offers you a Salzburg evening in traditional style: famous operetta melodies, Austrian folk music, which was also played by the Trapp family and serene classical plays by the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The show begins with a recorded interview with Maria von Trapp, in which she tells the story of her family. For the following Sound of Music Dinner the audience hall is transformed into an elegant dining room. Our hosts in the "Sternbräu" have put together a special four-coursed meal.

Rockhouse Salzburg

Since the beginning of the initial idea, the initial will, the name was set: Rockhouse...
Today after numerous efforts, struggles, changes, etc. it is stronger positioned in Salzburg's cultural scene than ever. As operators, initiators, musicians, human beings, we sense more than just a name. The term is the embodiment of something different. Always new, always fluctuating.

An institution such as the Rockhouse does not have to meet commitments, but needs, that is culture for life. Make culture com-prehendable, to provoke a sensual process of sensibilisation. Not to understand culture as a flat term, but to reflect it as change - social, societal, ecologic, politic phenomenon - and keep including it in the work process.