Easter Festival On A Cottage Holiday
The Salzburg Easter Festival is a famous tradition that draws tourists from throughout Europe to Austria each spring on their cottage holiday. For the whole week the city is flooded with tens of thousands of opera lovers and fans of chamber music. Holiday cottages and apartments in Salzburg are the best accommodations for enjoying this festival, and can be easily reserved online. The world -renowned Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan was the first organizer of the Easter Festival in 1967. He considered Salzburg to be the musical capital of Europe.
Thanks to good organization and a unique program, the festival continues to be one of the best and most respected music festivals around the world. The program of concerts always includes the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , with the original repertoire consisting of mostly classical works by German and Austrian composers. Since 1994, however, the festival program has also included contemporary music and performances by youth orchestras.