Nikolaus Bachler: Salzburg Easter Festival faces a big future!

Nikolaus Bachler: Salzburg Easter Festival faces a big future!

In a decisive supervisory board meeting of the Salzburg Easter Festival on Tuesday, Nikolaus Bachler's reorder was recommended as the managing director, which is due to come into force from July 1, 2025. The five members of the Supervisory Board unanimously voted for this and his contract is to be extended by five years until 2030. Bachler, who has been working in this role since 2020, impressed the Hearing Commission with its international network and its extensive experience, such as reported.

Nikolaus Bachler was born in Styria and completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. After several Engagements at German -language stages, he quickly rose to the management level. From 1991 to 1996 he was the director of the Viennese festival weeks and then had posts as director at the Volksoper Vienna and at the Vienna Burgtheater, where he signed important directors and artists. His time at the Bavarian State Opera from 2008 was characterized by innovative new productions and the collaboration with renowned conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, who was hired as general music director during his tenure at the Bavarian State Opera, it said at OsterfestSpiele.at .

Bachler finally took on the role of the managing director of the Easter Festival Salzburg in 2020 and developed a new concept that strengthens the cultural tradition of the festival and at the same time sets new impulses.