SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL

Late March · Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg · Ten Days · Since 1967

2027: 20 to 29 March, the sixtieth anniversary

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Easter Festival. Salzburg Easter Festival, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — I · Kirill Petrenko

The Salzburg Easter Festival was founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan and is held in the Großes Festspielhaus.

In 2027 it runs from the twentieth to the twenty-ninth of March, and marks its sixtieth anniversary.

An orchestra fills the stage of the Großes Festspielhaus beneath its timber wall. Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg (2022), shown for Salzburg Easter Festival in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — II · The Großes Festspielhaus

Die Walküre

The anniversary brings a new production of Die Walküre, conducted by Kirill Petrenko and staged by Kirill Serebrennikov. Lise Davidsen sings her first Brünnhilde.

The chorus in orange workwear crowds the stage in a rehearsal of Khovanshchina (2025). Salzburg Easter Festival, Salzburg, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — III · Khovanshchina

The Festspielhaus

The opera and the concerts are given in the Großes Festspielhaus, with chamber music elsewhere in the city.

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker play chamber music before the Mozarteum organ. Salzburg Easter Festival, The Großer Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg (28 March 2026), in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — IV · Chamber Music

What to Know

Tickets are sold by the festival.

The Court wears black tie.

It is a separate festival from the Mozartwoche, held by the International Mozarteum Foundation in January, and from the Salzburg Festival in summer. Each has its own organiser.

Salzburg at dusk in spring, the Salzach and the old town’s domes below the Hohensalzburg fortress. Salzburg from the Mönchsberg, shown for Salzburg Easter Festival in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — V · Salzburg at Dusk

The Court

The Salzburg Easter Festival 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.