Why Mozart is like a giant goal race

On the occasion of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle in March, we embarked on a journey into the Mozart cosmos.

Everything about the 2025/26 season presentation

The program, the guests and everything about ticket sales.

Premiere of "Iolanta"

Tchaikovsky's last opera returns to the repertoire after 125 years.

The mysterious school of seeing

"Iolanta" was Piotr I. Tchaikovsky's child of the heart and pain. The work is now being performed at the Vienna State Opera for the first time in 125…

The jubilation is pre-programmed

Xabier Anduaga returns to the Vienna State Opera as Nemorino - a conversation.

The terrifying power of good

A portrait of the director Evgeny Titov on the occasion of his debut at the Vienna State Opera

Before the Premiere

DANCE MOVIES: Cage/Cunningham

In a Summer Frenzy

A frenzy of color and movement on stage: »Summerspace« combines Rauschenberg's art and Cunningham's dance in a unique premiere.

Destroyed and rebuilt. 80 years after the bombs

On March 12, 1945, bombs destroyed the opera house on the Ring - but the opera lived on. A look back at destruction, reconstruction and a new…

When all Chakras Open

About losing oneself in a role, about love beyond passion and sex and about what opera can teach us.

Caught in a Men's Power Game

Elīna Garanča on the character of Eboli in "Don Carlo".