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Past Shows

Götterdämmerung
6/8 - 6/29/2014


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 ...

Tosca
9/5 - 6/27/2014


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
6/5 - 6/25/2014


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
5/15 - 6/22/2014


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
4/15 - 6/20/2014


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
5/30 - 6/19/2014


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
11/17 - 6/17/2014


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 ...

Meistersignaturen
5/27 - 6/16/2014

L'elisir d'amore
11/8 - 6/14/2014


Adina, estate tenants in a rather isolated village, is young, rich - and well read. She admires the penniless Nemorino. She wears a touching version ...

keine Vorstellung
9/19 - 6/10/2014

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
5/23 - 6/4/2014


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
12/23 - 6/2/2014


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
9/3 - 5/25/2014


1. Image Violetta Valéry, radiant heart of Paris Demimonde, is after an illness again seemingly recovered - in their home a feast where many men ...

Norma
5/8 - 5/21/2014

La Clemenza di Tito
5/11 - 5/18/2014


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
5/2 - 5/10/2014


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
5/3 - 5/9/2014


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
12/18 - 5/8/2014


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
9/22 - 5/7/2014


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
10/20 - 4/30/2014


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
4/12 - 4/28/2014


Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. Performed in German with Japanese subtitles....

Schwanensee
3/16 - 4/26/2014


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
4/17 - 4/24/2014


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, ...

Geschlossen
12/24 - 4/18/2014

Madama Butterfly
11/11 - 4/14/2014


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 ...

Rigoletto
4/1 - 4/10/2014


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
9/28 - 3/31/2014


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
3/23 - 3/30/2014


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
12/4 - 3/29/2014


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
3/7 - 3/14/2014


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
2/16 - 3/12/2014


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
2/17 - 3/5/2014


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
12/15 - 2/14/2014


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
2/7 - 2/13/2014


"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
1/26 - 2/9/2014


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 ...

Boris Godunow
1/23 - 1/31/2014


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
1/11 - 1/21/2014


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
1/13 - 1/20/2014


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
1/9 - 1/15/2014


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
12/18 - 1/6/2014


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
12/31 - 1/5/2014


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
12/19 - 12/29/2013


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
9/21 - 12/21/2013


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
10/3 - 12/6/2013


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
11/2 - 12/3/2013


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
11/23 - 12/1/2013


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
11/7 - 11/16/2013


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
10/26 - 11/4/2013


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
10/25 - 11/3/2013


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.)
10/13 - 10/19/2013


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
10/9 - 10/18/2013


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
10/5 - 10/17/2013


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
9/27 - 10/4/2013


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
9/14 - 9/23/2013


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
9/4 - 9/16/2013


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
6/13 - 6/30/2013


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 et Juliette
6/21 - 6/28/2013


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
6/20 - 6/27/2013


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
10/10 - 6/25/2013


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
5/15 - 6/23/2013


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
5/25 - 6/19/2013


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
10/27 - 6/14/2013


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
11/16 - 6/12/2013


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
1/26 - 6/11/2013


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
5/20 - 6/2/2013


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
5/16 - 5/24/2013


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 ...

Siegfried
5/19


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
11/10 - 5/17/2013


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 ...

Der fliegende Holländer
5/2 - 5/9/2013


“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
4/28 - 5/8/2013


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
12/30 - 5/6/2013


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
12/4 - 4/29/2013


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
4/12 - 4/22/2013


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.)
4/9 - 4/21/2013


Peter Konwitschny production shows the five-Act French original version originally desired by Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlos....

Rigoletto
4/8 - 4/14/2013


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
4/28 - 4/13/2013


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
4/1 - 4/7/2013


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
3/28 - 4/4/2013


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
3/24 - 4/2/2013


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
2/20 - 3/26/2013


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
3/14 - 3/23/2013


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 ...

Don Giovanni
10/11 - 3/10/2013


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
10/6 - 3/8/2013


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
11/7 - 2/28/2013


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
2/11 - 2/18/2013


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
1/8 - 2/9/2013


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
1/28 - 2/3/2013


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
1/19 - 1/30/2013


"I find myself in a terrible error or pique Dame is the culmination of my life's work really!" Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky...

Nabucco
1/20 - 1/24/2013


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
1/7 - 1/16/2013


Jean-Pierre Ponnelles masterful staging of this brilliant comedy of Rossini's is a musical and scenic experience at the highest level!...

Die Fledermaus
12/31 - 1/6/2013


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
12/19 - 1/2/2013


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
10/7 - 12/28/2012


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
12/9 - 12/21/2012


"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
12/8 - 12/20/2012


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 ...

Alceste
11/12 - 11/26/2012


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
10/22 - 11/24/2012


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
10/31 - 11/6/2012


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" ...

La Clemenza di Tito
10/18 - 10/28/2012


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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