The Salzburg Festival was inaugurated on 22 August 1920 when Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s morality play Jedermann was premiered on the Domplatz, directed by Max Reinhardt. Together with the composer Richard Strauss and the author Hugo von Hofmannsthal these three personalities founded the Salzburg Festival after WWI as a sign of hope.
Since that time, the Salzburg Festival has established itself as the most important festival for opera, drama and concerts.
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