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The Salzburg Festival's summer 2027 season runs 16 July–29 August, with a separate Whitsun festival on 14–17 May. Tickets are sold per performance, and the programme was still listed as coming soon at review.
01 · Event details
Timing: Summer 16 July–29 August 2027 · Whitsun 14–17 May 2027
Venue or host area: Salzburg's historic centre, spread across the Festspielhaus, the Haus für Mozart, the Residenz and the Felsenreitschule, with the Domplatz for the Jedermann performances. The marker shows the city.
Access: Every performance is ticketed individually, with no festival-wide pass. The organiser had published the 2027 summer and Whitsun dates but listed the programme as coming soon, so no price or availability is claimed here.
02 · Plan the visit
Salzburg is compact enough to walk between the festival venues, and the station is a short bus or tram ride from the centre; Munich and Vienna are both reachable by train. The festival period coincides with peak summer tourism, so accommodation should be booked well ahead. Opera and concert tickets are released in stages, and returns appear through the festival's own channel rather than resale sites.
03 · Location
A small Baroque city on the Salzach at the edge of the Alps, with the festival venues packed into the historic centre below the fortress.
The airports serving Salzburg and its region:
Connections, terminals and transfer arrangements change — confirm them with the airline and the organiser rather than planning around a fixed transfer time.
Salzburg's historic centre, spread across the Festspielhaus, the Haus für Mozart, the Residenz and the Felsenreitschule, with the Domplatz for the Jedermann performances. The marker shows the city.
The catalogue marker shows Salzburg, Austria at city or region level only — it is not an entrance, a gate, a course or a transfer route. For the event’s position among its category peers, open the Music overview and map.
04 · Overview
A summer festival of opera, theatre and concerts in Salzburg, running about six weeks from mid-July, with a separate Whitsun festival in May. Performances take place in the Grosses Festspielhaus, the Haus für Mozart, the Felsenreitschule — a theatre cut into the rock face — and the Cathedral Square, where Jedermann opens the festival.
Salzburg is the most prestigious classical festival in the world, founded by the people who invented modern stage direction and programmed in the city of Mozart's birth. Its ticket allocation is famously difficult, the Jedermann on the Cathedral Square is the festival's opening ritual, and the combination of star conductors, new productions and a compact historic centre makes it the season's most concentrated gathering of the classical music world.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss founded the festival in 1920, opening with Hofmannsthal's Jedermann. It was absorbed into Nazi cultural policy and suspended at the end of the war before reopening in 1945, and Herbert von Karajan's era from the 1950s established its modern international standing. The Whitsun festival was added in 1973.
| Founded | 1920 |
|---|---|
| 2027 summer | 16 July–29 August |
| Opening | Jedermann on Cathedral Square |
| Also | Whitsun festival, 14–17 May 2027 |
| Location | Salzburg, Austria |
05 · Research & credits
Evidence and event information reviewed 2026-10-31. Published edition facts are separated from typical timing and historical context.
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