The Summer Arena

Source of music

From 1841 an ever-increasing number of day trippers come to Baden from Vienna. So a wooden building for summer theatre performances is constructed in the same year. 3 canon shots are fired to announce both the opening of the ticket office and the commencement of the performances.

Since this first summer theatre, like the building that follows it in 1865, has no roof and can only host performances in good weather, the Summer Arena we know today is eventually built at the beginning of the 20th century in the record time of only 4 months - this time out of metal with a sliding roof.

Baden’s Summer Arena, which has been renovated and adapted several times over the decades, entrances its audience each year with theatre and operetta productions in an unmatched atmosphere.

And Baden’s Summer Arena not only generates music. Below the stage a 35m-long corridor leads to the so-called Roman or ‘original’ spring where you can see the sulphuric water bubbling out of the rock under a Plexiglas dome. The Romans already made use of the healing effect of this spring over 2,000 years ago.

Image: Exterior view of Baden’s Summer Arena © Wolf Photos, GG Tourism Baden