The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.

Opera

Bas Wiegers conducts Michael Jarrell’s “Kassandra” with actress Dagmar Manzel and the Ensemble Modern.

Performance Date: July 23, 2025

Salvatore Sciarrino’s “Macbeth” will be conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Cody Quattlebaum, Alice Rossi, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Iris van Wijnen, and Davide Giangregorio.

Performance Date: July 25, 2025

Christophe Dumaux stars in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” with Olga Kulchynska, Lucile Richardot, Frederico Fioro, Yuriy Mynenko, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, and Jake Ingbar. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the production by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Performance Dates: July 26-August 17, 2025

Peter Sellars will direct Mahler/Schoenberg’s “One Morning Turns into an Eternity.” Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a cast that includes Ausrine Stundyte and Wiebke Lehmkuhl. The evening consists of “Erwartung” and “Der Abschied.”

Performance Dates: July 27-August 18, 2025

Cecilia Bartoli, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Lea Desandre, Philippe Jaroussky, and Angela Winkler star in “Hotel Metamorphosis,” a pasticcio with music by Antonio Vivald in two acts. Gianluca Capuano conducts the production by Barrie Kosky. 

Performance Dates: July 31-August 15, 2025

Pene Pati leads in Mozart’s “Mitridate” with Sara Blanch, Elsa Dreisig, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, and Julie Roset. Adam Fischer conducts Birgit Kajtna-Wönig’s semi-staging.

Performance Date: August 4, 2025

Kate Lindsey and Lisette Oropesa star in Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” with Bekhzod Davronov, Aleksei Kulagin, and Thomas Lehman. Antonello Manacorda conducts the production by Ulrich Rasche.

Performance Dates: August 1-30, 2025

Peter Eötvös’s “Three Sisters” will feature the talents of Dennis Orellana, Cameron Shahbazi, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Kangmin Justin Kim, Mikołaj Trąbka, Ivan Ludlow, Jacques Imbrailo, Andrey Valentiy, Jörg Schneider, Jens Larsen, Anthony Robin Schneider, and Kristofer Lundin. Maxime Pascal and Alphonse Cemin conducts the production by Evgeny Titov.

Performance Date: August 8-24, 2025

Vladislav Sulimsky and Asmik Grigorian star in Verdi’s “Macbeth“ with Tareq Nazmi, Charles Castronovo, and Joshua Guerrero. Philippe Jordan conducts the revival of Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production.

Performance Date: August 9-29, 2025

Mozart’s “Zaide oder Der Weg des Lichts” will be conducted by Raphaël Pichon and will star Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Julian Prégardien, Daniel Behle, and Johannes Martin Kränzle.

Performance Dates: August 17-22, 2025

Piotr Beczala stars in Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” with Luca Salsi and Elena Stikhina.

Performance Date: August 25, 2025

Helena Sorokina, Marco Sala, Krassimir Sterev, Friederike Kühl, Hugo Paulsson, Jan Petryka, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, and Alexander Bauer lead a program of music by Beat Furrer, Orlando di Lasso, and Arvo Pärt.

Performance Date: July 20, 2025

Friederike Kühl, Johanna Vargas, Johanna Zimmer, Iva Kovač, Marco Sala, Markus Wallner, David Pirrò, Cantando Admont, and Cordula Bürgi perform Luigi Nono’s “Io, frammento dal Prometeo.”

Performance Date: July 21, 2025

Raphael Höhn, Lionel Meunier, Carine Tinney, Stefanie True, Jan Kullmann, William Shelton, Florian Sievers, Vojtěch Semerád, and Sebastian Myrus lead Bach’s “St John Passion.” The Vox Luminis and Freiburger Barockorchester are conducted by Lionel Meunier.

Performance Dates: July 22-23, 2025

Christoph Waltz, Allan Clayton, Marina Viotti, Michael Volle, and Albert Dohmen star in Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.” Lorenzo Viotti conducts.

Georg Nigl, August Diehl, and Alexander Gergelyfi take on Mozart’s “Nachtmusik.”

Georg Nigl, August Diehl, and Alexander Gergelyfi perform a “A Schubertiade.”

Gianluca Capuano conducts Mozart’s Missa in C minor K. 427 with soloists Mélissa Petit, Patricia Nolz, Anthony León, and José Coca Loza.

Performance Dates: August 6 & 7, 2025

Bogdan Volkov and Manuel Winckhler perform Mozart alongside the Salzburg Bach Choir and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and conductor Roberto González-Monjas.

Performance Dates: August 9 & 10, 2025

Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi perform Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin.”

Performance Dates: August 14 & 15, 2025

Ying Fang, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, and William Thomas lead a program of music by Schubert and Bruckner. The Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Performance Dates: August 15-17, 2025

Regula Mühlemann and Alexander Melnikov perform Mahler and Shostakovich with Utopia and Teodor Currentzis.

Performance Date: August 18, 2025

Sarah Aristidou leads a program of works by Ravel, Boulez, and Varèse with the Klangforum Wien Orchestra and conductor Sylvain Cambreling.

Performance Date: August 23, 2025

Elza van den Heever, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, and John Relyea perform Act one of Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Vienna Philarmonic.

Performance Dates: August 23 & 24, 2025

Masterclass

Julian Prégardien leads a masterclass with participants of the Young Singers Project.

Performance Date: August 3, 2025

Stéphanie d’Oustrac leads a masterclass with participants of the Young Singers Project.

Performance Date: August 15, 2025