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Marco Arturo Marelli’s extravagant art deco production is one of the most successful productions available at the Volksoper. It's an appropriate and lighthearted choice to celebrate 25 years of Ildikó Raimondi.

Il Trovatore has doggedly survived in opera’s hit charts despite dispensing generous quantities of hair-raising as well as eyebrow-raising content. Verdi’s music is intoxicating, of course, but there is something to this work that makes it accessible beyond reasoning.

Die Csárdásfürstin is set at the beginning of World War I, a time of uncertainty and fear, but also one where the ruling classes of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy were partying like there was no tomorrow.

Manon, Mimi, Tosca and Cio-Cio San. Why does Puccini send these women to such heartless deaths? It’s a question which musicologist Mosco Carner answered in the 1950s with a speculative Freudian reduction (the composer apparently had a debilitating mother complex).

Giving its concert on April 9th the subtitle “Sing Mozart Sing” and promoting it with a tongue-in-cheek portrait of the mischievous genius with his mouth half open in a wry smile, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra probably intended the audience to expect an evening of cheerful and light entertainment. The programming suited this intention down to a tee.

Das Experiment „Wiener Rosenkavalier II“ ist dank Josef Ernst Köpplingers Erfolgsinszenierung definitiv geglückt.

Optisch ansprechend, musikalisch auf hohem Niveau: Die Volksoper gibt Millöckers Bettelstudent mit neuem Textbuch und Zitaten aus der Pop-Kultur.

Der Volksoper Wien gelingt bei Emmerich Kálmáns Operette die Gratwanderung zwischen fröhlicher Party und latenter Untergangsstimmung und bietet ein temperamentvolles Ensemble und Orchester auf.

In der Regie von Achim Freyer und unter der Leitung von Jan van Steen zeigt die Volksoper Wien ihren neuen Don Giovanni.

Wies'n Stimmung an der Volksoper: In der bunten und schrägen Neuinszenierung gefallen Sigrid Hauser als resche Rössl-Wirtin und Daniel Prohaska als verliebt-schmachtender Zahlkellner Leopold