Paul van Dyk meets Giuseppe Verdi!

An absolutely, extraordinary night

Every summer a five week high-class cultural event attracts and enamours an international audience. In addition to events such as opera, concerts and ballet productions, the free admission open-air performance 'Opera for All' as developed into one of the hightlights of the whole festival. The opera festival was originally founded in 1875 when operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Wagner were a common occurrence during the summer months at Bavarian Castles. The idea of the musical event that to discover such an act as to go over big with the people, and so Prince Regent Luipold built the 'Prinzregenten Theatre' around the turn of the century, the booming period of the Munich Opera Festival. The first production was held August 21st, 1901.