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Every year, the Department of Opera and Music Theatre prepares two opera classes with up to 15 highly talented students from renowned theatre makers for the high demands of an international opera career. Four staged productions with orchestra are performed for a wide audience each year.

Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

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Current productions

12.5.2025

06:30 pm

Max Schlereth Saal
Mozart:Forum

W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti, Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte

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13.5.2025

06:30 pm

Max Schlereth Saal
Mozart:Forum

W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti, Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte

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15.5.2025

06:30 pm

Max Schlereth Saal
Mozart:Forum

W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti, Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte

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16.5.2025

06:30 pm

Max Schlereth Saal
Mozart:Forum

W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti, Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte

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13.6.2025

07:00 pm

Max Schlereth Saal

Medusa / Giuditta

Zwei Frauen, zwei Legenden:Das Oratorium "Giuditta" von Alessandro Scarlatti (Libretto: Antonio Ottoboni) wird mit der Uraufführung der Kammeroper "Medusa" (Libretto: Elisabeth Gutjahr, Musik: Yann Robin) verwoben.

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17.2.2025

Opera Out Of Opera 2: La Bohème

Opera Out of Opera II with La Bohème: A project to develop and test a young opera format

Press release
13.1.2025

In search of clues with Christian Jost's ‘Dichterliebe’

Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig in conversation about the next major production at the Opera & Music Theatre Department: Christian Jost's Dichterliebe.

Interview
15.12.2024

Magic, poetics and absurdity

At the beginning of 2025, Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig's opera class at the Mozarteum University will bring Christian Jost's ‘Dichterliebe’ to the stage. The two set designers Carla Schwering and Yvonne Schäfer talk about the ideas and realisation of their visions for the stage design.

Interview
19.11.2024

The eternally young story of Romeo and Juliet

Vincenzo Bellini's highly romantic bel canto opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi celebrates its premiere in the Max Schlereth Saal on 10 December under the direction of Alexander von Pfeil and musical direction of Gernot Sahler. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about Bellini's inventiveness and the challenge of dealing with special stage situations.

Interview