26 July– 30 August

The Festival poster appeared with a new motif that has served as the Festival’s emblem ever since. The award-winning design, by Poldi Wojtek, shows a mask behind Hohensalzburg Fortress, combined with Salzburg flags. In addition to five new productions, the Leningrad Opera Studio was invited to put on a guest performance. Conservative critics felt called upon to complain of a "Bolshevik invasion of the Festival".

1928: A new production of Die Zauberflöte with Franz Schalk conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

New production
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenie auf Tauris
D: Richard Beer-Hofmann
Ds/Cs: Alfred Roller
Stadttheater

New production
Friedrich Schiller
Die Räuber
D: Max Reinhardt
Ds: Oskar Strnad
Stadttheater

World première
Richard Billinger
Das Perchtenspiel
D: Eduard Köck
Ds: Robert Kautsky
Festspielhaus

New production
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte
C: Bruno Walter
D: Ernst Lert
Stadttheater

New production
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte
C: Franz Schalk
D: Lothar Wallerstein
Ds: Oskar Strnad
Festspielhaus

Guest performances, Leningrad Opera Studio:
Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne, Paumgartner's Die Höhle von Salamanca, Dargomyshsky's The Stone Guest and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Immortal Kashtchey.

Revivals: Jedermann, Fidelio