Culture in Vienna

You have a variety of possibilities to enjoy culture in Vienna. In the following we provide you with useful information about culture in vienna:

Vienna State Opera - Wiener Staatsoper

Approximately 50 operas and 20 ballets are offered in the repertoire every season, which runs from 1 September to 30 June. It is not, however, the number which is important (although it is not equaled by any other opera house in the world) rather the variety offered by this House and all at the highest levels of artistry. An artistic corner stone of the house is the permanently engaged ensemble of singers, always complemented by international guest singers. A great number of world stars have come from among the members of the Wiener Staatsoper ensemble. General Director Ioan Holender has discovered for the Wiener Staatsoper, and thereby for the international music world, a large number of young singers such as Natalie Dessay Barbara Frittoli, Angela Gheorghiu, Vesselina Kasarova, Angelika Kirchschlager, Andrea Rost, Michael Schade, Bo Skovhus, Bryn Terfel and Ramn Vargas.

Program:
April 18 Onegin by John Cranko
April 19 Parsifal by Richard Wagner
April 20 Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
April 21 Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
April 22 L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti

www.staatsoper.at
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Musikverein

There are many music societies but only one Musikverein. Music lovers throughout the world know it as the centre of Viennese musical culture, as the focus of the international concert circuit and as the Eldorado of classical music.

The Musikverein - a resonant name, a scintillating idea. Strictly speaking, it has a twofold meaning: the concert hall on Vienna's Karlsplatz and the society to which this building belongs, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Music Lovers) in Vienna. Two different things which belong inseparably together. What would the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde be without its magnificent concert hall and what would the concert hall be without the society?

Program:

April 18 St. Petersburger Philharmoniker conducted by Yuri Temirkanov
Prokofjew, Schostakowitsch, Mussorgski
April 19 St. Petersburger Philharmoniker conducted by Yuri Temirkanov
Prokofjew, Schostakowitsch, Mussorgski
April 20 Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Valery Gergiev
Schostakowitsch, Mozart
April 21 Trio D'Ante
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Piazzolla
April 22 Philharmonia Schrammeln
Wiener Typen - Allegro
Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Valery Gergiev
Schostakowitsch, Mozart
Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Manfred Honeck
Haydn, Britten, Mozart
Keine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozartband unplugged

www.musikverein.at
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Burgtheater / Akademietheater

The Burgtheater (the former imperial court theatre), one of the most important theatres in Europe, ist the second-oldest theatre still in existence after the Comdie Francaise. Its all-German program includes all the variety of spoken theatre: classics and contemporary pieces, as well as experimental theatre and readings. The director is Klaus Bachler.

Program:
April 18   Baumeister Solness
by Henrik Ibsen
April 19 Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Kleinbürger
by Maxim Gorki
April 20 Der Verschender
by Ferdinand Raimund
Boulevard Svastopol
by Igor Bauersima, Rejane Desvignes
April 21 Torquato Tasso
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Baumeister Solness
by Henrik Ibsen
April 22 Der Verschender
by Ferdinand Raimund
Die Ziege oder Wer ist Sylvia?
by Edward Albee

www.burgtheater.at
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Kunsthistorisches Museum - Museum of Ancient Arts

The newly constructed museum building in the Vienna Ringstrae was ceremoniously opened in 1891. For the first time, most of the imperial Habsburg collections were housed under one roof, the monumental building itself being conceived as a memorial to Habsburg patronage. The architects Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) and Karl von Hasenauer (1833-1894) designed the building in the style of the Italian Renaissance, establishing in the spirit of Historicism a link with an epoch of especial significance for the arts and sciences.

www.khm.at

Naturhistorisches Museum - Museum of Natural History

On the upper ground floor (Hochparterre) can be seen fascinating and valuable precious stones and minerals, rare fossils and gigantic dinosaurs, as well as famous prehistoric works of art. One of the most important is the 25.000 year-old figure of "Venus von Willendorf", the skeleton of a Diplodocus, the longest terrestrial vertebrate that has ever lived, a giant topaz weighing 117 kg and the valuable bouquet of jewels which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her husband.

The first floor presents the overwhelming species variety of the animal world, from protozoa to the most highly developed mammals. Objects of more than 200 years old are of great interest, not only on their own account but also as witnesses of nature and historical records for the history of science and the art of taxidermy. Numerous stuffed animals of species either extinct or extremely endangered make the collections truly irreplaceable.

www.nhm-wien.ac.at