After completing his baccalaureat at a high school in Vienna, Georg Lang studied business information systems at the University of Vienna and at the Technical University Vienna. During these studies he discovered his passion for event management and organised a number of sporting events. This lead him to Baden near Vienna, where he started working as secretary for the Badener Trabrennverein (Badener Trotting Races Association) in 1988. From 1999 until 2004, he functioned as manager of the summer trotting races. From 2003 until 2007 he worked in the management of Magna Racino. In 1999, he founded the agency PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS, which has been in operation in its present form since 2001. Its main activities consist of artist management, Baroque and opera productions, concert projects, tour planning as well as CD productions. Georg Lang was the executive director for the award-winning productions Faramondo, Farnace, Artaserse, Alessandro, Venezia and Caffarelli, among others. Further productions with Georg Lang as executive director include Rokoko, Tamerlano and Siroe released in 2014, and The 5 Countertenors, Catone in Utica, Arie Napoletane, Adriano in Siria and Arminio in 2015. Since 2009, Georg Lang through PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS realised 35 Baroque productions and was instrumental in building the carriers of artists like Max Emanuel Cencic, Daniel Behle, George Petrou, Yuriy Mynenko, Franco Fagioli, and Armonia Atenea. In 2019, he founded the label PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS. Recently he took up work as artistic administrator of Bayreuth Baroque, an opera festival starting in September 2020.
Georg Lang
