It is the centrepiece of the Salzburg Festival and an incontrovertible institution: For it’s 100th anniversary, the Salzburg Festival offered an opulent interpretation of Jedermann (Everyman) by Hofmannsthal. “Tobias Moretti plays with great commitment, Caroline Peters gives a brilliant performance” (Salzburger Nachrichten). On 22 August 1920, the first Salzburg Festival opened with Jedermann in a production by Festival founder Max Reinhardt against the breathtaking backdrop of the baroque Salzburg Cathedral. Since then, no other piece has more closely been connected with the 100-year history of the Festival than this play about the transience of the world, fame and money. BONUS: Documentary: The Great World Theatre – Salzburg and it’s Festival A high-quality docufiction about the dramas and unknown events behind the scenes, from its founding in 1920 to the present day showing unseen footage from 30 archives worldwide and numerous private films.
100 Years Salzburg Festival – From Austria to the World
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.
Salzburg Festival 2020: Jedermann
It is the centerpiece of the Salzburg Festival and an incontrovertible institution: For its 100th anniversary, the Salzburg Festival is offering an opulent, effective Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. “Tobias Moretti plays with great commitment, Caroline Peters gives a brilliant performance” Salzburger Nachrichten