The Vienna Festival Weeks | Free Republic of Vienna 2025 in numbers
As of 20 June 2025
38 days
around 112,000 visitors
33 productions with admission
including 18 in-house and co-productions and 11 world premieres
166 events with admission
including 120 sold-out events
50,088 tickets issued
46,499 tickets sold, of which 5,851 U30 Vermehrt Schönes! tickets (19 % more than in 2024)
approx. 93% capacity
29 venues
150 events without admission (opening, debates, workshops, children's and youth programmes, public talks and events)
Artists from 22 countries (Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA).
300 students from 14 universities from 8 countries and 3 continents were part of the Campus Programme.
15 young artists took part in the In the Field scholarship programme.
247 journalists visited the Vienna Festival. A total of 2141 media articles appeared in the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Tagesspiegel, taz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, FAZ, NZZ, Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk, among others.
The festival was covered in 27 countries (Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA).