Der Wiener Opernball 2019 - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Der Wiener Opernball 2019

Once a year, the Vienna State Opera for the most festive and most famous ballroom in the world - the Vienna Opera Ball. This unique festival always is the undisputed center of the whole ball season - already alone the enormous international appeal proves this. Simultaneously, the Vienna Opera Ball is a ball of artists who give this evening a special flair.

Dress code:
Ladies: large, long evening dress
Men: black tails


History of the Vienna Opera Ball

.. The first ball festivities where not the k k Court Opera nearest the Kärntnertor but probably occurred acting at this stage artists as promoters, concluded in a sense to this legendary festivals of the Congress of Vienna (1814 - 1815) at.

Various ball Celebrations were held in the numerous smaller and larger establishment of the imperial city on the Danube in the twenties and thirties of the 19th century. However, the artists wanted a more intimate setting for their festivals and soon found it an ideal solution in the case of all cultured representation yet cozy Redoutensäle the Imperial Palace.

After as bloody as inglorious outcome of the revolution in 1848 was in Vienna for now anyone too much in the mood for dancing. It had to pass a few years before the joy of life again reached those intensity, the ball Celebrations in "Viennese style" again made possible.

In 1862 the famous Theater an der Wien again received the "highest permission" to be able to organize festivals ball. It took you of course at that time spectacular events of the Paris Opera Balls modeled.

When in 1869 the staff of the k. K. Court Opera was finally able to move into the splendid new premises on the Ring, but Emperor Franz Joseph refused permission to organize dance parties in his theater. So not found the first ball with the label "Ball in the Court Opera" at the Burgtheater, but the equally new and magnificent building of the "Society of Friends of Music" instead.

1877 gave the emperor finally his agreement to a "soirée" in his opera house. Although at this festival in the night of 11 on December 12 officially not allowed to be danced, reported the "Wiener Fremdenblatt" the following day: "... it was quite difficult at first, but Wiener Blut and Wienermut withstood ... after midnight there was the first real dance in the ballroom of our opera house. "

After the fall of the Empire 1918, the young republic recalled astonishingly soon the imperial celebrations at the Opera House. On 21 January 1921, the first Opernredoute the Republic of Austria was held, and in January 1935 was the first, now so called "Vienna Opera Ball" instead - a magic word whose effect can cope in the pale light of the thirties.

On the eve of World War II in 1939 held a last opera ball on instruction of the Government in the meantime occupied by Germany Austria.
After the revival of the Republic of Austria in 1945 and overcoming the first years of famine in the bombed-out Vienna the festive reopening of the opera house destroyed during the war was celebrated in November 1955th

On February 9, 1956, the magnificent building was transformed for the first time in the Second Republic again in the radiant Opera Ballroom.

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