100 Years Salzburg Festival – From Austria to the World

Synopsis

The world’s largest classical music festival attracts thousands of music and theater lovers from all over the world to the city of Mozart every year. Since Max Reinhardt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920, the Salzburg Festival has established itself as the world’s most important festival of the performing arts. The film portrays the festival and traces its incredible rise: From its beginnings as a peace project after the First World War, through the myth of the Jedermann (Everyman) to the present day. What makes the Salzburg Festival so special and unique? Answers are provided by the festival organizers and some of the most internationally renowned festival artists – including Tobias Moretti, Daniel Barenboim, Teodor Currentzis, Anne-Sophie Mutter or Peter Sellars.

Additional Info

• No: A04050131
• Artists: Tobias Moretti, Daniel Barenboim, Teodor Currentzis, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Peter Sellars…
• Production year: 2020
• Run time: 00:51:00
• Director: A film by Chris Weisz
• Producers: Servus TV, Unitel
• Format: HDTV 16:9