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SalzburgerLand Summer News 1920 – 2020: 100 Years of the “Salzburg Festival” ........................................................................ 2 Salzburg Festival: Facts, figures and background information ....................................................... 4 Alpine Cuisine ............................................................................................................................... 7 Via Culinaria ................................................................................................................................ 10 Sustainable Tourism Has Always Been the Primary Objective .................................................... 12 Along the Hohe Tauern Panorama Trail ...................................................................................... 16 Themed Walking Paths ............................................................................................................... 20 Bike holidays ............................................................................................................................... 24 SalzburgerLand in figures ............................................................................................................ 27 1920 – 2020: 100 Years of the “Salzburg Festival” The Great Anniversary Year for the City and Region The Salzburg Festival’s 100th Anniversary celebrations have been extended into 2021, after last year’s anniversary festival was cut short by the worldwide pandemic. In order to do justice to this landmark event, the 2021 Festival programme will include concerts scheduled but not performed in 2020. Visitors can look forward to stunning events, magnificent productions and a varied programme of fringe activities. The Salzburg Festival will run from 17th July until 31st August 2021. It is considered the world’s most-renowned festival for opera, music and theatre, and has been captivating visitors from all over the world for one hundred years with cultural delights of the highest calibre. The Salzburg Festival is a legend that has come to life, that transforms the UNESCO World Heritage City into a huge stage in July and August every year! It offers unparalleled cultural variety, with 168 productions spread out over 46 performance days and 17 different venues, and now enthrals visitors from around 80 different nations (figures from 2019). The Salzburg Festival is the cultural highlight of every year, for which all the biggest stars – from directors and singers to actors, and the greatest orchestras – come to Salzburg. International political figures, members of the European royal families, actors, stars and starlets can all be found amongst the art-loving audience. Founded as a Peace Project That Aspires to the Highest Quality The director, intendant and actor Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) who was born in Baden bei Wien, the author and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) and the composer Richard Strauss (1864- 1949) are regarded as the founding fathers of the Salzburg Festival. According to Max Reinhardt in the 1917 founding texts, it was their idea to make the Mozart City of Salzburg – away from the hustle and bustle of the city in “the heart of the heart of Europe” – into a gathering place for international artists, in order to stage operas and plays, “both of the highest standard”. The concept of the extraordinary has proven to be sustainable, and today the Salzburg Festival ranks amongst the most notable festivals in the world. For one hundred years the festival has remained true to its original aspirations of achieving the highest quality. Anna Netrebko, who celebrated her debut here in 2002, Cecilia Bartoli and Daniel Barenboim amongst others are included amongst the great stars who regularly appear in Salzburg. Markus Hinterhäuser is the artistic director, and Helga Rabl- Stadler the festival director. “Everyman” as a Founding Myth 22nd August 1920 is considered the official beginning of the Salzburg Festival. It was on this day that the calls of “Everyman” first resounded around the “Domplatz” (Cathedral Square). The production on the “Domplatz”– which moves to the Felsenreitschule when the weather is bad – belongs to one of the founding myths of the Salzburg Festival. The piece is composed by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and is based on the model of medieval mystery plays. Whilst it wasn’t originally written for Salzburg, it appears to have found its “natural home” here. “Everyman” is an annual fixture and every single performance is sold out. The setting in front of Salzburg Cathedral, with views of the baroque facades and stretching high up to the Hohensalzburg Fortress, is quite unrivalled. It is one of the greatest accolades for German- speaking actors to appear as Everyman and Buhlschaft. 2 SalzburgerLand as One of the Key Success Factors Behind the Salzburg Festival The success of the Salzburg Festival is built on three pillars. The first pillar is the wide creative offer with its unique combination of opera, theatre and concerts. Only the best and most-renowned artists from all over the world are invited to appear in Salzburg. The second factor of success is the fantastically beautiful setting of the UNESCO World Heritage City of Salzburg with its unique architecture, baroque churches and squares, palaces and alleyways. The third pillar is the relationship between the Salzburg Festival and the holiday destination of SalzburgerLand. The lakes, mountains and Alpine pastures make for a fantastically beautiful place of retreat. Alongside the many culinary addresses right in the middle of the city of Salzburg, the culinary insider tips for guests and artists include, amongst others, Castle Fuschl with its own castle fishery where Anna Netrebko likes to order smoked vendace, Restaurant Weyringer at Wallersee Lake, Restaurant Pfefferschiff in Hallwang, the Wirt am Gries Inn in St. Gilgen and Döllerer’s Gourmet Restaurant and Inn in Golling. All these establishments are included in the “Via Culinaria” Culinary Pathways. Tips for the Summer 2021 “Great World Theatre – 100 Years of the Salzburg Festival” National Exhibition Until 31st October 2021 the national exhibition “Great World Theatre – 100 years of the Salzburg Festival” will be held in the Salzburg Museum in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. The exhibition in the “New Residential Palace” is designed as a “stage play within the museum” and divided into four areas which have been structured in such a way that they create a place of encounter for visitors with the Salzburg Festival through the use of stories, productions and interactive elements. www.salzburgmuseum.at/en Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival’s centenary celebrations run from 17th July to 31st August. Audiences will be captivated by operatic masterpieces such as Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and Tosca, theatre productions performed by international stars, and concerts played by world-renowned orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and City of Birmingham alongside virtuoso pianists Maurizio Pollini, Evgeny Kissin and Mitsuko Uchida. www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en 3 Salzburg Festival Did you know, that…?! Facts, figures and background information The Salzburg Festival’s 100th Anniversary celebrations have been extended into 2021, after last year’s anniversary festival was cut short by the worldwide pandemic. In order to do justice to this landmark event, the 2021 Festival programme will include concerts scheduled but not performed in 2020. Did you know, that… …Salzburg Festival was founded as the “first works of peace”? When the dramatist and director Max Reinhardt used this exact wording in his “Memorandum Regarding the Construction of a Festival Theatre in Hellbrunn”, the First World War was still raging throughout Europe. In 1917 he sent this piece of writing to the director of the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna. Nothing came of the festival theatre, but the first Salzburg Festival took place in 1920 under the direction of Max Reinhardt. In the midst of the First World War, the idea flourished to reconcile the people, who had been pit against each other, through theatre and give them a common purpose. The focus of Hugo von Hofmamnthal’s superlative “Appeal for a Plan for a Salzburg Festival” (1919) is peace and the belief in a new Europe. …there are three founding fathers of the Salzburg Festival? The director, actor, entrepreneur and intendent Max Reinhardt acquired Schloss Leopoldskron in 1918, and turned it into the “cradle of the Salzburg Festival”. The other two founding fathers were the writer, librettist and lyricist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the composer Richard Strauss. Max Reinhardt recorded in the founding texts that the best artists should meet every summer in the Mozart city of Salzburg, away from the urban hustle and bustle “in the heart of the heart of Europe”, to stage operas and plays “both of the highest standard”. Other important visionaries in the 100-year history of the Salzburg Festival include, amongst others, Dr. Franz Rehrl, Provincial Governor of Salzburg from 1922 and supporter of the Salzburg Festival, who had his own birth house pulled down in today’s Toscanini-Hof to enable the construction of the Festival Hall, and the star conductor Herbert von Karajan. …the official beginning of the Salzburg Festival is closely associated with “Everyman”? The official birth of the Salzburg Festival was on 22nd August 1920 when the cries of “Everyman” first resounded around the “Domplatz” (Cathedral Square). The production on the “Domplatz”— Max Reinhardt