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The Wiener Staatsoper's Live at Home
The Vienna State Opera's subscription service offers 45 live broadcasts a year for a monthly fee. The intention is to foster in your home a sense of the live occasion, as distinct from the mere provision of a video library.
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Postcard from Vienna
Are you visiting the land of waltzes and Glühwein? Unwind to reviewer Chanda VanderHart's cultural picks.
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ViennaOn Tour: Austria
Connesson, Lalo, Prokofiev, Stravinsky
Brussels Philharmonic; Stéphane Denève; Gautier Capuçon
ViennaPettersson on tour
Weber, Beethoven, Pettersson
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra; Christian Lindberg; Benjamin Schmid
ViennaIl trovatore
Verdi: Il trovatore
Marco Armiliato; Daniele Abbado; Vienna State Opera; Graziano Gregori; Carla Teti; George Petean; Anna Netrebko
ViennaLe nozze di Figaro
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Ádám Fischer; Jean-Louis Martinoty; Vienna State Opera; Hans Schavernoch; Sylvie de Segonzac; Adam Plachetka; Dorothea Röschmann
ViennaIl barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Marco Armiliato; Günther Rennert; Vienna State Opera; Alfred Siercke; Rachel Frenkel; Ioan Hotea; Marco Caria
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Vinke’s smiling hero saves an otherwise sluggish Siegfried
Stefan Vinke was a convincing, petulant, pouty Siegfried in the third episode in Wagner's Ring cycle in Vienna.
Peter Schneider takes the Valkyries on a wild ride in Vienna
Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s minimalist staging brought the protagonists’ complicated psychological interaction into focus but to the detriment of Wagner’s myth and magic.
Toronto Symphony a Season Highlight at the Konzerthaus Wien
After a 34 year hiatus from the Konzerthaus stage, the Toronto Symphony gave a knockout performance that had everything in spades
Bechtolf's Ring returns to the Wiener Staatsoper
A festive air was palpable – the house was technically sold out – as the first of a set of three Ring cycles launched at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Atmospheric Lenten concert by Currentzis
This Lenten concert given by Currentzis and MusicAeterna at Vienna’s Konzerthaus was certainly solemn and atmospheric – the auditorium was shrouded in darkness from beginning to end.