The Vienna State Opera at the Film Festival on Vienna's Rathausplatz

On 10 Sunday evenings, opera productions from the Haus am Ring will once again be shown on the big screen directly in front of Vienna City Hall. Recordings of top-class performances of "La bohème", "L'elisir d'amore", "Madama Butterfly", "La traviata", "Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci", "Aida", "Die Fledermaus", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Carlo" and "Così fan tutte " can be experienced in a relaxed summer atmosphere. The Vienna State Opera is also represented with four children's opera productions at the Children's Opera Festival, which takes place every Friday from 5 p.m. in Rathauspark.

The State Opera program at the Film Festival on Vienna's Rathausplatz

"La bohème" (2022) | Giacomo Puccini
Bertrand de Billy; Vittorio Grigolo, Anna Netrebko, Günther Groissböck, Nina Minasyan and others.
29. June | 21.30 hrs

"L'elisir d'amore" (2022) | Gaetano Donizetti
Gianluca Capuano; Maria Nazarova, Bogdan Volkov, Davide Luciano, Alex Esposito and others.
6. July | 21.30 hrs

"Madama Butterfly" (2020) | Giacomo Puccini
Philippe Jordan; Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Boris Pinkhasovich and others.
13. July | 9.15 pm

"La traviata" (2021) | Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Sagripanti; Juan Diego Flórez, Pretty Yende, Igor Golovatenko and others.
20. July | 9.15 pm

"Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci" (2025) | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Pietro Mascani
Nicola Luisotti; Elīna Garanča, Jonathan Tetelman and others | Jonas Kaufmann, Maria Agresta and others
27. July | 9.15 pm

"Aida" (2023) | Giuseppe Verdi
Nicola Luisotti; Elīna Garanča, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Luca Salsi et al.
3. August | 9 pm

"Die Fledermaus" (2024) | Johann Strauss
Bertrand de Billy; Georg Nigl, Hulkar Sabirova, Wolfgang Bankl, Michael Niavarani and others.
10. August | 9 pm

"The Magic Flute " (2025) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bertrand de Billy; Georg Zeppenfeld, Julian Prégardien, Serena Sáenz, Slávka Zámečniková, Ludwig Mittelhammer and others.
17. August | 8.45 pm

"Don Carlo" (2024) | Giuseppe Verdi
Philippe Jordan; Roberto Tagliavini, Joshua Guerrero, Étienne Dupuis, Asmik Grigorian, Eve-Maud Hubeaux and others.
24. August | 8.30 pm

"Così fan tutte" (2024) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Philippe Jordan; Federica Lombardi, Emily D'Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, Christopher Maltman et al.
31. August | 8.15 pm

Children's Opera Festival

"Wagner's Nibelungen Ring for Children" (2007) | after Richard Wagner by Hirofumi Misawa
Jendrik Springer; Daniela Fally, Ildikó Raimondi, Herwig Pecoraro a.o.
11. July | 5 pm

"Cinderella" (2019) | Alma Deutscher
Witolf Werner; Bryony Dwyer, Caroline Wenborne, Ulrike Helzel, Simina Ivan, Bongiwe Nakani, Pavel Kolgatin, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Rafael Fingerlos, Alma Deutscher
18. July | 5.05 pm

"Ballet Peter and the Wolf" (2025) | Sergei Prokofiev
Stephen Hopkins; Youth Company of the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera
8. August | 5.05 pm

"The Magic Flute for Children" (2024) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Philippe Jordan; Rolando Villazón, Miriam Kutrowatz, Ilja Kazakov, Hiroshi Amako, Serena Sáenz, Florina Ilie, Thomas Ebenstein
29. August | 5 pm