Oper Burg Gars 2022
Oper Burg Gars 2022
Burg Gars has served as a unique venue for top-class opera productions for over 30 years.
In the summer of 2022 the time has come: The long-awaited Garser CARMEN will celebrate its premiere on July 14th and guarantee you great opera, great emotions and great voices in the “Opera House of the Waldviertel”.
In addition, the thousand-year-old walls of Garser Burg 2021 will also host a diverse concert and cabaret program. Of course, all necessary preventive measures to protect your health will be observed at the events in Burg Gars!
About the Oper Burg Gars
At the end of the 1980s, and in 1990 the first major opera production was realized in Burg Gars. From then on, under the direction of the director and manager Karel Drgáč, the opera was performed every summer under the name “Opern-Air” in Gars Castle.
In 2012 there was a reorganization; Burg Gars GmbH, meanwhile wholly owned by the market town of Gars am Kamp, was founded as the sponsoring company and took over responsibility for what was going on in the castle.
In 2013, Dr. Johannes Wildner, one of the leading Austrian conductors, is the artistic director of the festival. The former director of the Vienna Volksoper, Rudolf Berger, completed the new tour as managing director. The new directorship started in Gars 2014 with “Der Freischütz” by Carl Maria von Weber, followed by “Don Carlo” in 2015, “Otello” in 2016, “Die Zauberflöte” in 2017, “Tosca” in 2018 and “Fidelio” in 2019.
Thanks to a clear positioning, the highest artistic demands and Johannes Wildner's incomparable enthusiasm, since 2014 more and more viewers have been able to attract more audiences to the Waldviertel Opera House. With the number of visitors growing from year to year, the importance of the castle as a summer venue also increased. The program was expanded to include a wide variety of concerts, exhibitions, readings and cabaret evenings. The season now ranges from the wine blessing on Easter Monday to the Babenberger Festival on November 15, with a special focus on offers for children.
