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Salzburg Festival in Salzburg
One of the world's most prestigious performing-arts festivals, staged in Salzburg each summer since 1920, combining opera, orchestral concerts and theatre, most famously an outdoor annual staging of the morality play Jedermann on the Cathedral Square that has continued every year since the festival's founding.
Salzburg's summer festival owes its signature production to a Berlin premiere: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's morality play Jedermann, first staged in the German capital in December 1911, became the work that director Max Reinhardt chose to open the new festival on Salzburg's Cathedral Square in 1920, with Alexander Moissi in the title role.