Events

Opernarbeit 2020-01-26T11:00:00+01:00 2020-01-26T12:30:00+01:00

26 Jan

Sunday
11:00
No intermission
Special Programme
Teesalon

Opernarbeit

Buchpräsentation

With Sergio Morabito, Anke Charton, Richard Klein

Buy tickets

Onegin 2020-01-26T19:00:00+01:00 2020-01-26T21:15:00+01:00 John Cranko transformed Pushkin‘s verse novel into one of the greatest ballets of the 20th century. This tragic story develops on the basis of Tchaikovsky’s compositions to a great drama about disdained love. John Cranko John Cranko Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

26 Jan

Sunday
19:00 - 21:15
2 intermissions
Ballet

John Cranko

Onegin

Conductor Ermanno Florio
Choreographie John Cranko

Buy tickets Prices C, Subscription 23

Jewels 2020-01-27T19:30:00+01:00 2020-01-27T21:45:00+01:00 First performed on 13 April 1967 in New York, Jewels represents the first full-length “abstract ballet” by George Balanchine. The three parts of the ballet, „Emeralds“ (to music by Gabriel Fauré), „Rubies“ (to music by Igor Stravinsky) and „Diamonds“ (to music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky) are loosely connected by the idea of gems or jewels; a meeting with the jeweller Claude Arpels was a significant stimulus to Balanchine to create the work. Through the choice of the different composers, the ballet also forms a kind of geographical retrospective of the life of George Balanchine, who spent periods of time in France, the United States and Russia. Manuel Legris’ time as director is also closely connected with the work: after „Rubies“ (2010/2011) and „Diamonds“ (Pas de deux, 2017/2018), the complete work now appears on the programme as his period of office in Vienna draws to a close. George Balanchine George Balanchine Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

27 Jan

Monday
19:30 - 21:45
2 intermissions
Ballet

George Balanchine

Jewels

Conductor Paul Connelly

Buy tickets Prices C

Otello 2020-01-28T19:00:00+01:00 2020-01-28T22:00:00+01:00 Verdi remained silent for a good 15 years, and – with the exception of revisions to his older operas – did not publish a single work of musical theatre. But then, in 1887, after an extended period of work, he presented his Otello. Based on Shakespeare’s menacing drama, he created not only one of the most exciting works of opera, but also a profoundly modern one. One that masterfully plays with the emotional states of innocence and love, jealousy, envy and anger. In contrast to other popular Verdi operas, Otello was incorporated into the repertoire of the Vienna Opera almost immediately after its world première in 1888. The Wiener Staatsoper has since put on nearly 500 performances of Verdi’s last opera in seven different productions. This sombre drama has now been given yet another interpretation, this time by stage director Adrian Noble – who has also directed Hansel and Gretel and Alcina at the opera house on the Ring. Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

28 Jan

Tuesday
19:00 - 22:00
1 intermission
Opera

Giuseppe Verdi

Otello

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Director Adrian Noble
With Stephen Gould, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlos Álvarez

Buy tickets Prices G, Verdi Cycle

Jewels 2020-01-29T19:30:00+01:00 2020-01-29T21:45:00+01:00 First performed on 13 April 1967 in New York, Jewels represents the first full-length “abstract ballet” by George Balanchine. The three parts of the ballet, „Emeralds“ (to music by Gabriel Fauré), „Rubies“ (to music by Igor Stravinsky) and „Diamonds“ (to music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky) are loosely connected by the idea of gems or jewels; a meeting with the jeweller Claude Arpels was a significant stimulus to Balanchine to create the work. Through the choice of the different composers, the ballet also forms a kind of geographical retrospective of the life of George Balanchine, who spent periods of time in France, the United States and Russia. Manuel Legris’ time as director is also closely connected with the work: after „Rubies“ (2010/2011) and „Diamonds“ (Pas de deux, 2017/2018), the complete work now appears on the programme as his period of office in Vienna draws to a close. George Balanchine George Balanchine Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

29 Jan

Wednesday
19:30 - 21:45
2 intermissions
Ballet

George Balanchine

Jewels

Conductor Paul Connelly

Buy tickets Prices C, Subscription 12

Rusalka 2020-01-30T19:00:00+01:00 2020-01-30T22:30:00+01:00 The mermaid Rusalka has fallen in love with a human being, a prince, and longs for becoming human and soulful herself. The aquarius answers her pleas under severe conditions: she will loose her voice, and cannot return to her watery realm unless the prince dies. She agrees, they get married - but soon the prince abandons his invariably voiceless wife for a mysterious princess. When he finally searches for her, tormented by remorse, he dies in her deadly embrace. Antonín Dvořák Antonín Dvořák Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

30 Jan

Thursday
19:00 - 22:30
2 intermissions
Opera

Antonín Dvořák

Rusalka

Conductor Tomáš Hanus
Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf
With Piotr Beczala, Elena Zhidkova, Jongmin Park, Olga Bezsmertna, Monika Bohinec

Buy tickets Prices A

Otello 2020-01-31T19:00:00+01:00 2020-01-31T22:00:00+01:00 Verdi remained silent for a good 15 years, and – with the exception of revisions to his older operas – did not publish a single work of musical theatre. But then, in 1887, after an extended period of work, he presented his Otello. Based on Shakespeare’s menacing drama, he created not only one of the most exciting works of opera, but also a profoundly modern one. One that masterfully plays with the emotional states of innocence and love, jealousy, envy and anger. In contrast to other popular Verdi operas, Otello was incorporated into the repertoire of the Vienna Opera almost immediately after its world première in 1888. The Wiener Staatsoper has since put on nearly 500 performances of Verdi’s last opera in seven different productions. This sombre drama has now been given yet another interpretation, this time by stage director Adrian Noble – who has also directed Hansel and Gretel and Alcina at the opera house on the Ring. Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Staatsoper

31 Jan

Friday
19:00 - 22:00
1 intermission
Opera

Giuseppe Verdi

Otello

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Director Adrian Noble
With Stephen Gould, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlos Álvarez

Buy tickets Prices G