30 July – 28 August
Once again improvements were made to the Festival Theatre. This time they affected the stage: an apron curtain was added, the machinery made more sophisticated and the orchestra pit enlarged. The theatre was now able for the first time to present opera, as was demonstrated by a new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio. Bernhard Paumgartner launched a cycle of Mozart Serenades that has adorned the Festival’s programme ever since.

1927: Beethoven’s Fidelio with Alfred Piccaver (Florestan) and Lotte Lehmann (Leonore).
New production
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
D: Max Reinhardt
Ds: Oskar Strnad
Cs: Ernest de Weerth
Festspielhaus
New production
Friedrich Schiller
Kabale und Liebe
D: Max Reinhardt
Ds: Alfred Roller
Stadttheater
New production
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio
C: Franz Schalk
D: Lothar Wallerstein
Ds: Clemens Holzmeister
Festspielhaus
Revivals: Jedermann, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni
2 ballet performances, 1 music-dramatic presentation, 3 orchestral concerts, 1 chamber concert, 7 serenades, 4 concerts of sacred music
Details of the several years:
1920,
1921,
1922,
1923,
1924,
1925,
1926,
1927,
1928,
1929,
1930,
1931,
1932,
1933,
1934,
1935,
1936,
1937