by Martin Ganeider - February 22, 2026
What did our critic think of SPRING AWAKENING at Volksoper?...
by Martin Ganeider - February 19, 2026
In WICKED, Eden Espinosa’s skin was green. In LEMPICKA, the Tony-nominated actress had to age from 19 to 85 in a musical. On Feb. 28, Espinosa gets to perform in the skin she feels the most comfortable – her own....
by André Böke - February 04, 2026
The Stadttheater Baden presents a superb non-replica production of the West End hit 'Matilda', combining imaginative staging, dynamic choreography, and masterful musical direction. Andreas Lichtenberger shines as the formidable headmistress, while the children’s ensemble delivers energetic and nua...
by Martin Ganeider - February 04, 2026
Three decades and numerous awards later, STOMP transforms mundane objects into instruments, causing a unique theatrical experience. The creators, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, formed something that has come to be seen as an institution; STOMP has been running for 29 years at the Orpheum Theat...
by Martin Ganeider - January 14, 2026
Welcome 2026, welcome back to Wolfgang Ebner’s VINDOBONA, and welcome back CULINARICAL. The successful format is back for another round, this time with girls singing boys ' songs and boys singing girls' songs, a queer, divine journey over the rainbow....
by Martin Ganeider - December 19, 2025
Do you believe in life after love, in flashy paillettes and loads of Vintage Vegas-style show attitudes? THE CHER SHOW is celebrating its Tour start in Vienna, in the (for this show oversized) Stadthalle F, and what's not to celebrate about a Show featuring 35 Hits from CHER, the show's plot?...
Past Shows
Three Norns weaving the rope of destiny, describing past, present and future: silly ego robbery of gold of the Rhine, the curse of the ring,...
The fourth Nureyev designed by Manuel Legris for the Vienna State Ballet Gala will be dedicated to a very special selection of program and international...
Rome around 1800. The city groaning under a regime of terror. The revolutionary-minded painter Mario Cavaradossi is responsible, in the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle...
1. Lift Siegfried in MIME, the blacksmith, grew up in the forest. When he investigates his parents, MIME tells him of Siegfried's mother, who died...
1 Act The Wälsung Siegmund reached fleeing pursuers, severely exhausted the Hunding's dwelling place. His wife, Sieglinde, receives the hero and gives him to drink....
The livery of the richest man in Vienna is busy trying to set up the stage for a scheduled show at the Palace of their...
In the depths of the Rhine, the three rhinemaidens guard the gold. The dwarf Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelungs, watched them and tried to...
Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the...
Adina, estate tenants in a rather isolated village, is young, rich - and well read. She admires the penniless Nemorino. She wears a touching version...
With the production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann he debuted - extremely successful - at the Vienna State Opera at that time in Vienna little-known...
1 Act In a somewhat neglected Castle, Don Magnifico, Baron of Montefiascone, lives with two daughters and a stepdaughter. While Clorinda and synopsis are nothing...
1. Image Violetta Valéry, radiant heart of Paris Demimonde, is after an illness again seemingly recovered - in their home a feast where many men...
Tito sacrifices his love to the will of the people. He separates from his lover, the Jewess of Berenice, and is ready to take a...
1 Act Isolated, plagued by death longings, the aging Faust cursed all that, what he had previously ignored: luck, patience, faith, knowledge, fame and love....
It is possible the young poet Andrea Chénier by his honest commitment to freedom and humanity, become suspicious in any political system: at a party...
Hans Werner Henze's Pollicino, practically already a popular classic is a very special gift to the young visitors and visitors of the House: the opera...
1 Part Jerusalem: There is war between Assyria and Israel. Nabucco, King of the Assyrians, has occupied Jerusalem, and the last survivors of the Israelites,...
The Feldmarschallin neglected by her husband uses the morning exchanging caresses with her lover, the young count Oktavian. Since her cousin, Baron Ochs of Lerchenau...
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. Performed in German with Japanese subtitles....
On October 15, 1964, the ballet world in Vienna looked. Rudolf Nurejew, the most important dancer of the second half of the 20th century, had,...
The Grail King Amfortas went out to fight against Klingsor. He had who applied for admission into the Grail community and for even castrated themselves,...
1 Act Near the city of Nagasaki, the Lieutenant of the American marine Pinkerton visited a House that he wants to rent of owned Goro....
Masterpieces of the 20th century "made in France": Serge Lifar, an icon of the French Ballet, operates through its created in 1943 for the Paris...
1. Image Hall in the Palace of the Duke: with his court, the young, Bohemian Duke of Mantua commits a sumptuous feast. Just telling of...
The young Count Almaviva from Seville is immortal in Dr. Bartolos Ward, Rosina falls in love with. Under the name of Lindoro, succeeds the girl...
The soldier Wozzeck has an illegitimate child with Marie. To give her money, he regularly shaves the captain, cuts mating for a major, and will...
1 Act In the attic: Christmas Eve in the miserable attic inhabited by four young artists will differ little from other evenings: Marcel is working...
1 Act On the estate of the Larins in the Russian province is harvest time. The widowed landowner and the old nurse chat during the...
In the 18th century, the French language had no greater champion than Adrienne Lecouvreur. Queen among tragic actresses in the eyes of a besotted Voltaire,...
Prolog: Die Taufe König Florestan und seine Königin haben zur Feier der Taufe von Prinzessin Aurora alle Feen als Patinnen eingeladen. Nur auf die Fee...
A tribute to the ballet, presented in various ways: on the one hand purist by Harald Landers brilliant Etudes (1948), a crescendo of the academic...
"Herod had be be because of herodias, the wife of his brother of Philip, who he had taken to wife namely arrest John, tie and...
Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about...
Cavalleria rusticana Lola, the former lover of Turridu, married the Fuhrmann Alfio. Turiddu tries to comfort affiliated with Santuzza. After only a short time, he...
Before the Moscow Virgin monastery, the people with lashes is forced to woo Boris Godunow, to make the choice to the Tsar. After the assassination...
Act I Don Giovanni has gone secretly to the house of the Commendatore's daughter Donna Anna. In the meantime, his servant Leporello must stand guard...
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo discuss with the lebenserfahrenen Don Alfonso on the loyalty of women. The two young men are the steadfastness of their two...
1 ACT Figaro, the adroit servant of Count Almaviva, is betrothed to Susanna, the maid of the Countess Almaviva. The commanded by the Count for...
I. ACT 1. Image On the road On 24 December 1900. A happy crowd of people commits the feast of Christmas. 2. Image In the...
That ranks Handlung sich um den Ball beim Prinzen Orlowsky. Zu ihm were im 1. Akt mit Ausnahme des handelnden Alfreds, all persons, in Rosa...
History The Governor of a Spanish history, Don Pizarro, leads a regiment of horror in his institution. Innocent people become political victims of his brutal...
1. LIFT: The Irish Princess Isolde is of Tristan to Cornwall, put there with his uncle, the weary King brand, to be married. Her faithful...
I. AKT 1. Szene: Der Hof einer Wirtschaft in der Nähe von Paris Im Hof der Wirtschaft herrscht reges Treiben. Unter den Anwesenden befinden sich...
Four choreographers of today - the Briton David Dawson, American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot - four different...
As reviewed by Benjamin Britten, it is the story of an outsider, who suffers from pressure from society and ultimately breaks her. Peter Grimes, located...
The Swedish King Gustaf III. enjoys great popularity, the majority of the nobility as well as the people. Only the count Horn, Warting and their...
1. Akt Die Tiroler Berge Die Marquise de Berkenfield und ihr Verwalter Hortensius werden am Tag ihrer Flucht nach Österreich von der Ankunft eines französischen...
In April 2011, the Vienna State Opera was Anna Bolena Bel Canto jewel premiered in 1830 to the highly acclaimed premiere. Now this production of...
In the monastery of San Yuste, Emperor Karl v, the most powerful ruler in the world, once resigned the insignia of his power to to...
1 Act The Ethiopians threaten the Egyptian Empire under the leadership of their King Amonasro anew. On the advice of the goddess ISIS, Radames to...
La fanciulla del west Giacomo Puccini During the gold rush in California in 1849, everything was expensive - but human life was cheap. Minnie, living...
Prolog Simon Boccanegra, a former pirate and victorious Admiral of the Genoese fleet, had seduced Maria, the daughter of the prestigious patrician Fiesco. From this...
During a Tempest, Otello, the colourful Commander of the Venetian fleet, returns as Victor over the Turks in Cyprus. Jago, his Ensign, seeks revenge, because...
Carmen, a young and beautiful worker of the cigarette factory of Seville is swarmed by all men. But she liked to win, who do not...
Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) is a musical drama by Richard Wagner, libretto by the composer. It is the masterpiece of German Romanticism, and...
Already for the third time in the era of Manuel Legris as Director of the Vienna State Ballet, one decides "Nureyev Gala" the Ballet season...
Roméo, a member of the family of the Montagues, warring with the Capulets attended a celebration of the Capulets in secret disguise. There, he meets...
Love the composer or love the poet? The gorgeous countess Madeleine is courted by both a writer and a composer as her home fills with...
Figaro, the applied servant of Count Almaviva, is engaged to Susanna, the maid of the Countess. This love is disturbed by the clumsy advances of...
Siegmund reached the Hundings abode, fleeing pursuers, severely exhausted. His wife, Sieglinde, receives the hero and gives him to drink. As Hunding returns home Siegmund...
The centuries-long dialogue between the Spanish folk dance and the dance of high culture was established, culminating in the ballet Don Quixote premiered 1869 in...
The young Count Almaviva from Seville is immortal in Rosina, ward of Dr. Bartolos falls in love with the. Under the name of Lindoro manages...
Rome around 1800. The city groaning under a regime of terror. The revolutionary-minded painter Mario Cavaradossi is charged in the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was...
Carmen, a young and beautiful worker of the cigarette factory of Seville is overwhelms by all men. But it you liked to win the who...
It is possible the young poet Andrea Chénier by his honest dedication to freedom and humanity, to suspiciously in any political system: at a party...
Three Norns spin on the rope of fate, describe past, present and future: silly ego robbery of gold of the Rhine, the curse of the...
With Siegfried, the greatest hero of the entire four-part Nibelungen action takes the stage: the Nibelungen ring, he wins the supreme power, he defeated the...
La Traviata (Italian for "the of the way lost") by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto) based on the novel the Lady of the...
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhine maidens guard the gold. Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelung who tries in vain to win...
“A ship with scarlet sails and black mast, and on the bridge a ghostly figure, the ship’s captain.” Thus is the Flying Dutchman described in...
Hans Werner Henze's Pollicino, practically already a popular classic is a very special gift to the young visitors and visitors of the House: the opera...
Pursued by a huge snake, the young Prince Tamino sees already his end nearby. At the moment in which he unconscious collapses, three mysterious women...
With La Bohème, Puccini the probably most and tender love story in the Opera literature is managed. Embedded in the most glorious melodies the history...
The first is considered a masterpiece of Russian literature. With it, Pushkin initiated the period of large, realistic and poetic novel. For the first time...
Peter Konwitschny production shows the five-Act French original version originally desired by Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlos....
Rigoletto is among the most tragic operas of the entire musical theatre with safety: the injustice is rare, with people's fortunes and partially self-inflicted acts...
Total involves in this dark romantic opera about the cursed, damned to the Untotheit figure of the Flying Dutchman by Wagner's fourth opera. However she...
The cosmos of the Romantic ballet, whose initial work to view the Sylphide premiered 1832 in Paris is, as is its continuing validity in the...
Wagner bezeichnete sein letztes Bühnenwerk als Bühnenweihfestspiel. Mit diesem Musikdrama wollte er, wie er selbst gemeint hatte, "den Kern der Religion retten". In musikalischer Hinsicht...
Wozzeck is a simple soldier trying to survive in an unjust world. His captain exploits him, he is the subject of scientific experiments conducted by...
Four choreographers of the present - the Briton David Dawson, the American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot -...
The Ethiopians, led by their King Amonasro, threaten the Egyptian Empire to the new. The young General of Radames at the head of the Egyptian...
Masterpieces of the 20th century "made in France": Serge Lifar, an icon of the French Ballet operates through his created in 1943 for the Paris...
Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s...
The elixir of love was created by Donizetti in incredible record time of just two weeks: the result is one of the heart-erwärmendsten and at...
The pirate of Simone Boccanegra can choose using peons to the Doge of Genoa. He believes that in this position of the patrician Jacopo Fiesco...
Despite their selfishness, their apparent brutality and spoiled Verzogenheit, which ultimately others entail the death, the youthful and love-needy Princess attracted the sympathy of the...
Since 1974 at the London Royal Ballet its premiere the "Manon" of British playwright of the dance is Sir Kenneth MacMillan as one of the...
The Swedish King Gustaf III. enjoys great popularity, the majority of the nobility as well as the people. Only the count Horn, Warting and their...
"I find myself in a terrible error or pique Dame is the culmination of my life's work really!" Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
With this work, Verdi founded his world fame. The prisoners chorus from the third act has remained a hit to this day. But the rest...
Jean-Pierre Ponnelles masterful staging of this brilliant comedy of Rossini's is a musical and scenic experience at the highest level!...
With the bat, the waltz King has created a masterpiece that has not since then was surpassed within the genus "Operetta": A brilliant music coupled...
The richest man in Vienna wants to pamper the guests of a Soiree in his palace by an especially generous offer: first a sumptuous meal,...
I. ACT 1. Image On the road On 24 December 1900. A happy crowd of people commits the feast of Christmas. 2. Image In the...
"Otello cannot do anything with the peace." Therefore, he leaves a to j. intrigue. He believes to be stronger. "The murder of Desdemona, Otello then...
Despite his short life, the young dead genius of Vincenzo Bellini has created some immortal Opera jewels. La sonnambula is a precious, woven from seemingly...
For the third time, the Ballet School of the Vienna State Opera in the A1 children's Opera tent of the Vienna State Opera dance demonstrations,...
Young Knight Walther von Stolzing has settled in Nuremberg and fell immediately on the first day in Eva, the daughter of his host of Veit...
Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not...
Everyday life in the Kingdom of sleep country is peaceful. A prerequisite for a good citizen is a good alptraumloser sleep, King is the one...
John Crankos version by Sergej Prokofiev Shakespeare tragedy vertonter in the thirties of the 20th century for the Ballet stage was built in 1962 for...
An evening dedicated to the America's contribution to the dance of the 20th century. George Balanchines two works "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" and "theme and variations"...
Mozart wrote this music theatre work in the year of his death in 1791. When a fixed Opera commissioned was given to the coronation of...
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