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SUMMARY:Lehar Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Lehár Festival Bad Ischl is the world’s leading festival dedicated to the art of operetta — a glittering annual celebration of the genre that flourished in Vienna and the spa towns of the Habsburg Empire during its golden age at the turn of the twentieth century. Held each summer in the elegant imperial town of Bad Ischl, the festival is named after Franz Lehár — the composer of The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles, and Giuditta — who spent decades of his creative life in Bad Ischl and composed many of his greatest works in the villa he owned here on the banks of the Traun.\nThe festival presents large-scale operetta and musical productions with top international casts in the gracious setting of the Lehár Festival Haus, bringing the golden age of Habsburg entertainment back to life in the very town where it was most fervently cultivated. The productions combine high professional standards with a sense of festivity and occasion that is unique to operetta — these are evenings of spectacle, wit, and musical pleasure of a kind that opera rarely offers and that popular entertainment rarely matches. Audiences come from across Austria and Europe for the experience.\nBad Ischl itself is one of the most charming and historically resonant towns in the entire Salzkammergut. As the summer residence of Emperor Franz Josef I for more than sixty years, it retains an elegance and a Habsburg ambiance that is found nowhere else in the region. The Kaiservilla, the Lehár Villa, the spa gardens, and the pedestrian zone lined with elegant cafés and confectioners provide the perfect setting for a festival evening — the town is as much a part of the experience as the performance on stage.\nJust 20 minutes from Hallstatt Hideaway, the Lehár Festival is one of the finest cultural highlights within easy reach of the Hideaway. Combining a summer operetta evening in Bad Ischl with a stay on the Hallstätter See is one of the great pleasures the Salzkammergut has to offer guests seeking a perfect balance of culture, natural beauty, and imperial Austrian elegance in one unforgettable visit.\n
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LOCATION:Kongress & Theaterhaus Bad Ischl, Kurhausstraße, Bad Ischl, Austria
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