MOZARTWOCHE

Late January · Salzburg · Eleven Days · Since 1956

2027: 21 to 31 January

The gilded Großer Saal of the Mozarteum, its organ and chandeliers above an audience after a piano recital. The Großer Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, shown for Mozartwoche in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — I · The Großer Saal

The Mozartwoche is the winter festival of the International Mozarteum Foundation, the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, in Salzburg. It is held around Mozart’s birthday, the twenty-seventh of January, and was founded in 1956.

A Mozart figure in a red coat flies above the cast of Die Zauberflöte at the Mozartwoche (2026). Mozartwoche, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — II · Die Zauberflöte

Mozart and ‘Mozarts’

The 2027 festival runs from the twenty-first to the thirty-first of January under the theme “Mozart and ‘Mozarts’”. Its artistic director is Rolando Villazón.

The Camerata Salzburg plays to a full Großer Saal at the Mozartwoche (2024). Mozartwoche, The Großer Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — III · The Camerata Salzburg

The Houses

Così fan tutte is given at the Haus für Mozart. The Vienna Philharmonic plays at the Großes Festspielhaus, and there are concerts in the Großer Saal of the Mozarteum.

The cast of L’Orfeo takes its curtain call at the Mozartwoche premiere (2025). Mozartwoche, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — IV · L’Orfeo

What to Know

The foundation states no strict dress code. The Court wears a lounge suit.

The Easter Festival and the Salzburg Festival, in summer, are separate festivals with their own organisers.

Rolando Villazón, the Mozartwoche’s artistic director, seated in the Großer Saal. Mozartwoche, The Großer Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — V · The Artistic Director

The Court

The Mozartwoche is not the Court’s own. Seats are sought on a member’s behalf, and the Court arranges the whole of it: getting there, where to stay, and the table afterward.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.