Seefestspiele Mörbisch

Together with the Austrian National Tourist Office [de], the community organised a so-called Night and Lake Festival, which was attended by 6000 guests.

[3] The initiative for the Seespiele, founded in the years 1955–1957, came from the celebrated chamber singer Herbert Alsen (among others) at the Vienna State Opera (1906–1978), who, together with his wife, the costume designer Gisela Bossert (†2012), who had worked in Berlin, discovered the venue by chance while looking for a holiday location that was climatically conducive to his voice, and whom the peculiar musicality of this landscape[4] permanently touched.

[5] After two years of preparation, the opening took place on 6 July 1957 with the operetta The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss II.

In the following years, due to the great audience response, there were constant expansions, both in terms of the number of performances and the size of the auditorium and stage.

In 2006, a new sound system developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology [de] and also in use at the Bregenz Festival was put into operation.

A one-hour adaptation of Countess Mariza was shown in June 2018 on a stage set up on the festival grounds for a total of six performances.

The stage decoration includes a 14 m high Statue of Liberty and the typical Manhattan brick buildings with fire escape, water elevator and neon advertising sign Nylon on the roof.