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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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ViennaElektra
Strauss R.: Elektra
Michael Boder; Uwe-Eric Laufenberg; Vienna State Opera; Rolf Glittenberg; Marianne Glittenberg; Nina Stemme; Waltraud Meier
ViennaPelléas and MélisandeNeue Produktion
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Alain Altinoglu; Marco Arturo Marelli; Vienna State Opera; Dagmar Niefind; Olga Bezsmertna; Adrian Eröd
ViennaL'Elisir d'Amore
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Guillermo García Calvo; Otto Schenk; Vienna State Opera; Jürgen Rose; Valentina Naforniţă; Jinxu Xiahou; Marco Caria
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
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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.