Mozart locations in Salzburg
Mozart fans from around the world will come to Salzburg in 2006 to celebrate Mozart's birthday together with the Salzburg residents. Many references to Mozart, his work and his family can be found in Salzburg:

Two Mozart monuments, one on Mozart Square and one on the Kapuzinerberg, integrate Mozart in the cityscape. Traces of Mozart can also be found in the archiepiscopal Residenz or in the Auditorium of the Old University where as a child, Mozart had his first public performance in a play in the Auditorium and this was where his first music-theatrical piece "Apollo and Hyacinth. was originally staged.

Here are some of the highlights of how the Mozart Year will be celebrated.
The first celebration will be held in Salzburg between January 27 and January 29, 2006
At the beginning of the Mozart Year, as an international starting signal for a year filled with celebrations, Salzburg will host a city fest under the motto: "All the city's a stage.. Music, dance and readings will be available in all of the city's concert halls as well as on the squares and in the courtyards: a fest for Salzburg's residents and its international guests. To underline the country-fair atmosphere children and teenagers will be admitted to many events free of charge. Various (Mozart) institutions will hold an "Open House" to ring in the Mozart Year.

All of Mozart's operas at the Salzburg Festival July 21 to August 31
The Salzburg Festival will have a special focus during the 2006 Mozart Year. For the first time, his music-theatrical oeuvre (22 operas, musical comedies, and other music-theatrical works) will be played in a period of only six weeks! This is a major challenge, both artistically and organizationally. Own productions of Mozart's seven great operas will be presented. The other works will be presented in co-productions or guest performances. In addition to the Festival Halls, the venues will include the Landestheater, the Residenzhof, the Great Auditorium of the University and the Collegiate Church (another authentic performance venue)

The Small Festival Hall will reopen on July 23 as a “House for Mozart”. The “Marriage of Figaro” will be performed on the day of the opening. For more details log on to www.salzburgfestival.at OR you can book your concerts with COMPACT TRAVELS whilst planning your visit to Austria in 2006. 

Viva! MOZART! All-year exhibition - 27.1.2006 until 7.1.2007
The most important exhibition honouring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday in Salzburg will be shown in the Salzburg Carolino Augusteum Museum's new building, the "Salzburg Museum" all year round.

The "Salzburg Museum" will open its new building on Mozart Square in time for the great composer's birthday on 27 January 2006. With first-class exhibits from all over the world, the museum is set to become a meeting place for the young and the young at heart. The concept for the content of the exhibition is based on the idea of holding a birthday party for Mozart. Among the guests are his family, his supporters and patrons, and the visitors of the exhibition. In a multi-media show, the museum will focus on ten main topics and give the visitor a chance to look at, or look back to, the times of Mozart in Salzburg from today's perspective.

Special exhibitions at Mozart's Birthplace and Mozart's Residence-all year round

These exhibitions will highlight Mozart’s entire life from his birth in Salzburg to his death in Vienna. Four focal themes will present the most important stages in Mozart's life:
1. Childhood in Salzburg, 2. Travels across Europe, 
3. Looking for a job, 4. The Vienna Years.
"Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer on the Seeham Lake Stage
Premiere June 30 and every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday in July 2006

A performance of Peter Schaffer's "AMADEUS" on the Seeham Lake Stage near the city of Salzburg promises to be a hallmark event. This famous piece, celebrated on countless international stages, memorable for its film version by Milos Forman, will be one of the highlights of the Mozart Year. 

Chamber music concerts all year round. Traditionally, the popular chamber music cycles in Salzburg center their performances on Mozart's music. Fortress Concerts, Mozart Serenades, Mozart Dinner Concerts and other organizers will offer an even more intensive chamber music program during the Mozart Year.

To supplement Mozart Week, the International Mozarteum Foundation will offer the Young Artists. concert cycle and a number of chamber music concerts between Mozart’s birthday and his day of death. Along with internationally acclaimed soloists and chamber music ensembles, these chamber concerts will also feature young talents with international exposure who have already performed successfully at other music centers of the world.

Many of the young artists will give their debut within the framework of this cycle of concerts offered by the International Mozarteum Foundation. More information can be obtained from www.salzburg.info 

These are some of the many activities lined up in 2006 and those visiting Austria this year should include one of the Mozart concerts which would make your trip all the more memorable during the Mozart Year. In case you plan visiting Austria this year, email compact@rbcsgroup.com and get a free brochure of AUSTRIA PLUS packages. 

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