KARAJAN FOUND THE EASTER FESTIVAL IN 1967
It all started in 1967. Herbert von Karajan founded the Salzburg Easter Festival, and it established a name for itself from the very beginning as one of the most exclusive, artistically excellent and internationally renowned music festivals around the world. Ever since, the focuses have been a lavish opera production at the Großes Festspielhaus and the great orchestral repertoire.
The death of the great maestro Karajan in 1989 represented a turning point in the Easter Festival’s artistic development. After a four-year interregnum which the maestros Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink and Sir Georg Solti filled with their inimitable personalities as artists, Claudio Abbado succeeded in 1994 as the artistic director, carrying on the long tradition of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s responsible principal conductor serving as the Festival’s artistic director. After Abbado left his position in Berlin, his successor, Sir Simon Rattle, took charge of Salzburg’s artistic planning beginning in the 2003 season.
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