Music is in the air

Lehár Festival Bad Ischl
  • 3 nights in the 4* Hotel Goldenes Schiff
  • Visit to an operetta performance of the Lehár Festival (operetta only in German)
  • Salzkammergut Adventure Card
 

The Lehár Festival Bad Ischl is the largest operetta festival in Austria and is unique worldwide in its variety and quality. Every summer, musical entertainment theatre of the highest standard is presented to an international audience.

Enjoy Bad Ischl at the most exciting time of the year!

Highlights

  1. Admission to the Lehárvilla in Bad Ischl
  2. Coffee break at Café Zauner
  3. 3-course dinner on the day of the operetta performance
Information about the accommodation

Accommodation: ****Hotel Goldenes Schiff

Location: The Hotel Goldenes Schiff, which has been run as an inn since 1821, is situated in a prime location, directly next to the Traun River. The Location reminds of the salt transport, which played an essential role for Bad Ischl and the hotel Goldenes Schiff until 1877. Nearby you find the famous pastry shop Zauner, in a pedestrian zone. Restaurants and shops are only 50m away, the Eurothermen Resort Thermal Spa and the open air pool approx. 500m, the train station approx. 600m and the Imperial Villa approx. 850 meters. The “Katrin-Seilbahn” (cable car) is located at a distance of approx. 2.5km.

Facilities: The 3rd generation of the Gruber family welcomes you to the traditional hotel, which was renovated on a grand scale in 2021, with a spacious, modern lobby. Furthermore, the hotel features an à la carte restaurant with outdoor dining right next to the river Traun, free WLAN throughout the hotel, in-house E-bike rental (on extra charge) and an on-site parking lot (subject to availability, extra charge). Highchairs and cots are available on request.

Spoken languages: German, English.
Accepted credit cards: Maestro, Visa, Master Card.

Wellness: The hotel offers a new 80m² wellness area “traun spa” with 2 sauna, 2 steam baths and hydrojet, as well as a new fitness area “sportsgarden” with Technogym-facilities. Opening hours like mentioned in the hotel. The Eurothermen Resort Thermal Spa is within 5 minutes walking distance from the hotel.

Rooms: All 57 rooms offer the comfort of  a modern 4-star establishment with bath or shower, WC, hairdryer, vanity mirror, high definition cable TV with 70 channels including SKY soccer (free) and laptop connection, radio, direct dial telephone with alarm function, free WLAN, tablet, writing desk, minibar and safe.

Double room Classic: approx. 20m², for 1 – 2 guests, with double or twin beds.

Double room Classic+: approx. 23m², for 1 – 4 guests, with double or twin beds, partly with sofa bed; max. occupancy: 4 adults.

Double room superior: approx. 32 m2 for 1-4 guests, generous double room with living and sleeping area, either southside balcony or panorama window with a view to the river Traun and the Lehár Villa, occupancy: 4 adults.

Double room superior +: approx. 32 m2 for 1-2 guests, generous double room with living and sleeping area, either southside balcony or panorama window with a view to the river Traun and the Lehár Villa, occupancy: 2 adults, air-condition

Family Suite: approx. 32 m2 for 1-4 guests, generous double room with living and sleeping area as well as double / twin in the gallery, occupancy: 4 adults, barrier-free, air-condition

Lehár Festival Programme

Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Operetta by Jacques Offenbach

Premiere 4 July 2025
Venue Congress & TheatreHouse Bad Ischl

When the famous can-can is danced in hell, when godfather Jupiter disguises himself as a fly to seduce his adored Euridice, who in turn becomes bored with her husband and is abducted by Pluto, the devil himself, when the Greek gods in heaven become rebels - and all this in front of the eyes of public opinion, then, dear audience, you are in the universe of Orpheus in the Underworld.

This masterpiece with the incomparable music by Jaques Offenbach is considered to be the ultimate operetta and is certainly one of the funniest and most frivolous ever written.

Intendant Thomas Enzinger will stage this ingenious, hilarious centrepiece of the operetta and bring it to the stage in Bad Ischl for the first time.

Nacht in Venedig

Operetta by Johann Strauss

Premiere 12 July 2025
Venue Kongress & TheaterHaus Bad Ischl

He is one of Austria's greatest sons and the king of the golden operetta era - Johann Strauss! In 2025, we celebrate his 200th birthday and invite our audience to a dignified celebration and a trip to Venice!

With cheerful comedy of mistaken identities, gondola romance and Mediterranean flair, there is guaranteed to be not a dry eye in the house when Baron and womaniser Guido von Urbino invites you to his legendary masked ball.

Johann Strauss created an unsurpassable musical masterpiece with "Eine Nacht in Venedig", which makes us dream of bella Italia, glittering balls and romantic nights with immortal melodies such as Frutti die Mare, Alles maskiert, or Komm in die Gondel and loving local colour.

Die Blaue Mazur

Operetta by Franz Lehár

Premiere 8 August 2025
Venue Kongress & TheaterHaus Bad Ischl

With "The Blue Mazur", we present a Lehár operetta that has never been performed in Bad Ischl in the long history of the festival.

The Viennese Countess Blanka von Lossin is unhappily married to the Polish Count Olinski, who shows too much interest in a dancer. But it is the dance that will bring the couple back together, because when Julian Olinski renounces his exuberant past life, he asks his wife Blanka to dance the "Blue Mazur", proving that his heart belongs to her alone.

You can look forward to classical waltz melodies, lively buffo duets and, of course, lively dance rhythms, as the mazurka gave the operetta its name.

Schedule of the operettas

Date Time Operetta
FRI, 04.07.25 19:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SAT, 12.07.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SUN, 13.07.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
WED, 16.07.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
THU, 17.07.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
FRI, 18.07.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SAT, 19.07.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SUN, 20.07.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
WED, 23.07.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
THU, 24.07.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
FRI, 25.07.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SAT, 26.07.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SUN, 27.07.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
WED, 30.07.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
THU, 31.07.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
FRI, 01.08.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SAT, 02.08.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SUN, 03.08.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
WED, 06.08.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
THU, 07.08.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
FRI, 08.08.25 20:00 Uhr Die blaue Mazur
SAT, 09.08.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SUN, 10.08.25 15:30 Uhr Die blaue Mazur
WED, 13.08.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
THU, 14.08.25 15:30 Uhr Die blaue Mazur
THU, 14.08.25 20:00 Uhr Die blaue Mazur
FRI, 15.08.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SAT, 16.08.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SUN, 17.08.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
MON, 18.08.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
THU, 21.08.25 15:30 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
FRI, 22.08.25 20:00 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt
SAT, 23.08.25 20:00 Uhr Nacht in Venedig
SUN, 24.08.25 15:30 Uhr Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Arrangement

3x
Overnight stay incl. breakfast at **** Hotel Goldenes Schiff
1x
Ticket (Cat. 3) for the Lehár Festival at the Congress and Theatre House Bad Ischl - Operetta only in German
1x
Admission and visit to the Lehár Villa in Bad Ischl
1x
Imperial coffee snack incl. 1 cup of coffee/tea and 1 piece of cake of your choice at Café Zauner
1x
3-course dinner on the day of the operetta performance
1x
Salzkammergut Adventure Card - discount card for 110 attractions
+
service / emergency number 24/7

Rate per person and arrangement in €:

Hotel 04.07. - 03.08.25
20.08. - 27.08.25
03.08. - 20.08.25
Double room from 553,00 from 590,00
Arrival day Daily Daily

Prices for single rooms and family rooms on request.

general Information

With the Salzkammergut Erlebniscard you get discounted admission to more than 100 attractions in the Salzkammergut and can use it for the entire duration of your stay.

Extras payable on site:
Local tax: approx. € 3,50 per person and night (from age 16)
Cot: approx. € 20,00 per stay, on request
Car park: in front of the hotel only stop for check in / check out
Underground car park: public car park approx. € 14.00 per vehicle and day

Check-in: from 03:00 pm
Check-out: until 11:00 am

Prices and timetables are subject to change.

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Rates and operating hours / timetables are subject to change

Informationen

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For questions we are available.

Salzkammergut Touristik GmbH

Götzstraße 12

4820 Bad Ischl


Tel.: 0043 (0)6132 24000-51

office@salzkammergut.co.at