Theater Association Baroque Theater Lambach

2-3 productions per year!

Under Abbot Amandus Schickmayr (1746–1794), the Bendictine theater tradition was revived. In 1770, out of personal passion (“excessivus amator musicae”), he had the monastery theater “restyled”. His brother P. Maurus Lindemayr (1723-1783), known as the founder of Upper Austrian dialect poetry, wrote several opera libretti in the course of his rich literary oeuvre.

The music for this was mostly written by Joseph Langthaller (1722-1790), whose family roots e.g. to Traunkirchen and who enjoyed his education at Kremsmünster Abbey.

Contacts with the Mozarts

From 1768 Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were also guests in Lambach ...