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Wolfgang Katschner; Tomo Sugao; MusikTheater an der Wien; Julia Katharina Berndt; Karl Wiedemann; Lautten Compagney
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Candide: Comic enlightenment at the Volksoper

The message of Voltaire’s novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme is that rationality and reason, rather than custom, faith or authoritative orders should determine all human activity, and although this quintessence of the Age of Enlightenment sounds self-evident nowadays, a visit to the newspaper kiosk shows us otherwise: a lot of luridly-titled guidebooks and magazines try to talk us into believing that a
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Hans Werner Henze introduced at the Volksoper

On Saturday, Vienna’s Volksoper will premiere a double bill with a twist: Pagliacci will not be paired with Cavalleria Rusticana, but rather Hans Werner Henze’s first opera, Das Wundertheater.
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Die Mischung macht’s: eine junge alte Salome an der Volksoper Wien

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Die Volksoper holt mit Luc Bondys Salome eine altbewährte Inszenierung ans Haus. Trotzdem bleibt dieses Werk spannend, gerade wenn man eine umwerfende Salome wie Astrid Kessler zur Verfügung hat.
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