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Univ..Prof. of Opera Studies

"Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war.

How can Mozarteum University become a “living room for Salzburg”? In her first article for the Salzburger Nachrichten university news section (published on 6 June 2026), Rector Constanze Wimmer reflects on the university as an open space for encounter, exchange, and cultural participation. Read on to discover why art is more than mere consumption, what role “third places” play in our democracy, and how the Mozarteum aims to bring people together in conversation.

The flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

In the internationally oriented Pre-College, talented young people are given the best possible support at an early stage and receive comprehensive preparation for music studies as well as for a later artistic career. In addition to the training of highly gifted students, special talents are given increased attention.

Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of

Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of

Senior Artist in the field of painting