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A staged performance of Handel’s pasticcio opera Oreste shows a strong narrative structure and provides a vehicle for promising young singers.

A very creative reading – both scenically and musically – of Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel for Theater an der Wien's final production of the season at the Kammeroper.

"Grab ’em by the throat and never let ’em go!" goes the famous quote by legendary Hollywood director Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard, Some like it Hot, and Double Indemnity among his masterpieces – who regularly dispensed stellar advice to aspiring, young writers. Unlike good screenwriting, opera’s blood and thunder decree doesn’t need much coaching to bare its jugular.

Die Kammeroper zaubert mit wenigen Zutaten ein Paradebeispiel lebendigen Musiktheaters.

Das junge Ensemble des Theater an der Wien bringt Tommaso Traettas nur selten aufgeführte Oper Antigone an die Wiener Kammeroper

Florian Leopold Gassmanns heitere Verwechslungskomödie bietet die volle Palette an Intrigen und Liebeswirrungen; dargeboten von einem tollen jungen Ensemble und einem spritzigen Orchester, das barocke Lebensfreude verbreitet.