The venues of the Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival has never had a single house. It plays a Baroque church, a riding school quarried out of the Mönchsberg, a cathedral square that turns into an open-air stage, a converted cinema and the city's repertory theatres, most of them clustered in the Festspielbezirk that grew out of the archbishop's stables of 1606/07. This is the list of those rooms: what each building was before the festival took it, and what it holds now.

Places in this collection

• SZENE Salzburg — The former Stadtkino, later the Republic, taken on as a drama venue when the festival's expansion through the 1990s outgrew the houses in t…
• Salzburger Landestheater — The festival's first opera performance happened here rather than in any of the purpose-built halls: Don Giovanni on 14 August 1922, conduct…
• Kollegienkirche — The university church, one of three Salzburg Baroque churches Max Reinhardt opened up as a festival venue, and still the room used for the…
• Felsenreitschule — A 17th-century riding school cut into the rock face of the Mönchsberg, in what had been a quarry, with three tiers of arcades hewn from the…
• Domplatz — The square in front of Salzburg Cathedral is the open-air stage for Jedermann, which premiered here on 22 August 1920 and has stood on the…

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