About
Anyone who has experienced the fascination of the Seefestspiele Mörbisch will always come back. Because the natural scenery of the Neusiedler See National Park, the culinary variety, the incomparable atmosphere and the unique open-air stage ensure a magical overall experience that you will never forget and want to experience again and again.
The rousing musical world success "MAMMA MIA!" brings atmospheric entertainment and good mood to the lake stage in Mörbisch in summer 2023 with the hits of ABBA. Over 60 million people have already seen the hit musical and loved it. And rightly so!
The humorous story penned by British author Catherine Johnson impresses with its charm, wit and esprit. Themes such as love, friendship and family, dreams, longing, memories and the search for happiness are the linchpins of the colourful, happy event. In MAMMA MIA! The "mother-daughter story" about the single Donna and her 20-year-old daughter Sophie, who wants to unveil the secret of who her father is shortly before her wedding, is told in a moving manner and at the same time skilfully interwoven with ABBA's most famous pieces of music. A cleverly told declaration of love to life, legendary ABBA sound and impressive stage scenery will sweep and enchant visitors to the Seefestspiele Mörbisch.
About the SeeFestSpiele Mörbisch
The Seefestspiele Mörbisch, originally: Seespiele Mörbisch, is an annual operetta festival in Mörbisch am See (Austria). With around 150,000 visitors, the Mörbisch Lake Festival is the world's largest festival of the operetta genre. In addition to operettas, classical musicals are also performed on an irregular basis. Above all, the natural scenery of Neusiedler See is always incorporated into the stage set. The area is very flat, so transmission technology specially developed for the Lake Festival is used.
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 permanently touched.
Alsen's plans found favour with the municipal council of Mörbisch as well as with the representative of the province, Landesrat Hans Bögl (1899–1974), especially as the project fitted into the tourism concept of the municipality and the province, and Alsen subsequently agreed to take over the directorship of the Seespiele for an initial period of five years (with reference to possible competition with the Bregenz Festivals), stressing that the Seespiele in Mörbisch did not want to be a festival that would add to the excessive number of festival venues.
After two years of preparation, the opening took place on 6 July 1957 with the operetta The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss II.
