Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2Wien, Wien 1010
by Martin Ganeider - June 18, 2026
As one of Europe’s famous impromptu theaters with regular performances, the Tschauner Bühne is known far beyond the borders of Ottakring. The 2026 season kicks off with a new CEO. Jürgen Partaj takes over from Monika Erb, who is looking back on ten very successful years. Huge steps to fill for t...
by André Böke - March 13, 2026
The touring company Showslot—best known for its high-end musical productions—has now brought Dan Brown’s thriller “The Da Vinci Code” (published in Germany as “Sakrileg”) to the travelling stage, following its adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express”. With striking visual flair...
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
Götterdämmerung
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,...
Nurejew Gala 2014
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...
Tosca
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...
Siegfried
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...
Die Walküre
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....
Ariadne auf Naxos
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...
Das Rheingold
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...
Die Zauberflöte
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...
L'elisir d'amore
Adina, estate tenants in a rather isolated village, is young, rich - and well read. She admires the penniless Nemorino. She wears a touching version...
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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...
La cenerentola
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...
La traviata
1. Image Violetta Valéry, radiant heart of Paris Demimonde, is after an illness again seemingly recovered - in their home a feast where many men...
La Clemenza di Tito
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...
Faust
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....
Andrea Chénier
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...
Pollicino
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...
Nabucco
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,...
Der Rosenkavalier
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
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. Performed in German with Japanese subtitles....
Schwanensee
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,...
Parsifal
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,...
Madama Butterfly
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....
Meisterwewrke des 20. Jahrhunderts
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...
Rigoletto
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...
Il barbiere di Siviglia
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...
Wozzeck
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...
La Bohème
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...
Eugen Onegin
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...
Adriana Lecouvreur
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,...
Dornröschen
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...
Ballett-Hommage
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...
Salome
"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
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 / I Pagliacci
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...
Boris Godunow
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...
Don Giovanni
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...
Così fan tutte
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...
Le Nozze di Figaro
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...
Der Nussknacker
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...
Die Fledermaus
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...
Fidelio
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...
Tristan und Isolde
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...
Manon
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...
Tanzperspektiven
Four choreographers of today - the Briton David Dawson, American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot - four different...
Peter Grimes
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...
Un ballo in maschera
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...
La Fille du régiment
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...
Anna Bolena
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...
Don Carlo (ital.)
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...
Aida
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
La fanciulla del west Giacomo Puccini During the gold rush in California in 1849, everything was expensive - but human life was cheap. Minnie, living...
Simon Boccanegra
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...
Otello
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
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 und Isolde
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...
Nurejew Gala 2013
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 et Juliette
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...
Capriccio
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...
Le Nozze di Figaro
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...
Die Walküre
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...
Don Quixote
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...
Il barbiere di Siviglia
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...
Tosca
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
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
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...
Andrea Chénier
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...
Götterdämmerung
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...
Siegfried
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
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...
Das Rheingold
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...
Der fliegende Holländer
“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...
Pollicino
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...
Die Zauberflöte
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...
La Bohème
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...
Eugen Onegin
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...
Don Carlos (franz.)
Peter Konwitschny production shows the five-Act French original version originally desired by Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlos....
Rigoletto
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...
La Fille du régiment
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...
La Sylphide
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...
Parsifal
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
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...
Tanzperspektiven
Four choreographers of the present - the Briton David Dawson, the American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot -...
Aida
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...
Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts
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...
Don Giovanni
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...
L'elisir d'amore
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...
Simon Boccanegra
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...
Salome
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...
Manon
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...
Un ballo in maschera
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...
Pique Dame
"I find myself in a terrible error or pique Dame is the culmination of my life's work really!" Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
Nabucco
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...
L'Italiana in Algeri
Jean-Pierre Ponnelles masterful staging of this brilliant comedy of Rossini's is a musical and scenic experience at the highest level!...
Die Fledermaus
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...
Ariadne auf Naxos
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,...
Der Nussknacker
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
"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...
La sonnambula
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...
Tanzdemonstrationen der Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper
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,...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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...
Alceste
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...
Das Traumfresserchen
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...
Romeo und Julia
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...
Balanchine / Neumeier / Robbins
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"...
La Clemenza di Tito
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...
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - STATE OPERA
The Marriage of Figaro recounts the further comic adventures of Figaro, first introduced in Rossini's previous opera, The Barber of Seville. Figaro's master, Count Almaviva,...
DON QUIXOTE
Act I A market-place in Barcelona Kitri, an inn-keeper´s daughter, steals out of her house to meet her beloved, the barber Basilio. Her father, Lorenzo,...
WIENER STAATSOPER
Making his name not only as a true genius of Italian opera, but also as an inventive author of finest recipes, Gioacchino Rossini has predicted...
ANDREA CHENIER - UMBERTO GIORDANO
ACT I: Gérard, servant to the Countess de Coigny, mocks the aristocracy and their manners. Seeing his father struggle with a piece of furniture, Gérard...
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
The story of Mahagonny begins with three criminals on the run from the law. They decide to found a city where people can do anything...
BALLET: LA SYLPHIDE
ACT I On the eve of his wedding, James, a young Scotsman, sees a vision of an enchanting, winged sylph. She is an ethereal spirit...
Otello
Act I Scene: In front of the castle. A tavern is nearby. Thunder and lightning. There is no overture. The curtain rises upon a storm...
Un Ballo in Maschera
Scene 1. A hall in the royal palace Courtiers awaiting the arrival of the king sing his praises, while malcontents conspire to bring about his...
La Forza del Destino
La Forza del Destino Composer: Giuseppe Verdi ACT I. Seville, mid-eighteenth century. After the Marquis of Calatrava bids good night to his daughter, Leonora di...
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO - GIUSEPPE VERDI
La Forza del Destino Composer: Giuseppe Verdi ACT I. Seville, mid-eighteenth century. After the Marquis of Calatrava bids good night to his daughter, Leonora di...