Vienna State Opera – Schedule, Program & Tickets

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The Tempest

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After overthrowing his brother Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, Antonio drove him and his three-year-old daughter Miranda out to sea in a boat with the help of the King of Naples
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It was supposed to be the best day for Susanna and Figaro: their wedding day. But Count Almaviva is after the bride, Don Basilio bothers Susanna with his intercession for the Count, Marcellina wants to sue for the old marriage contract with Figaro and Doctor Bartolo supports her, also out of old anger against Figaro. And then there is the page Cherubino, who is in love with all women and whom all women want to be around, preferably disguised as a girl...
Romantic opera in three acts
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After overthrowing his brother Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, Antonio drove him and his three-year-old daughter Miranda out to sea in a boat with the help of the King of Naples
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As great as Verdi's enthusiasm for the work of Shakespeare was, in the end only three of his operas were based on models by the English playwright - apart from Macbeth, these were his two last works for musical theater, i.e. Otello and Falstaff, both of which he based on libretti by his former artistic opponent Arrigo Boito composed
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After overthrowing his brother Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, Antonio drove him and his three-year-old daughter Miranda out to sea in a boat with the help of the King of Naples
...
It was supposed to be the best day for Susanna and Figaro: their wedding day. But Count Almaviva is after the bride, Don Basilio bothers Susanna with his intercession for the Count, Marcellina wants to sue for the old marriage contract with Figaro and Doctor Bartolo supports her, also out of old anger against Figaro. And then there is the page Cherubino, who is in love with all women and whom all women want to be around, preferably disguised as a girl...
As great as Verdi's enthusiasm for the work of Shakespeare was, in the end only three of his operas were based on models by the English playwright - apart from Macbeth, these were his two last works for musical theater, i.e. Otello and Falstaff, both of which he based on libretti by his former artistic opponent Arrigo Boito composed
...
After overthrowing his brother Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, Antonio drove him and his three-year-old daughter Miranda out to sea in a boat with the help of the King of Naples
...
It was supposed to be the best day for Susanna and Figaro: their wedding day. But Count Almaviva is after the bride, Don Basilio bothers Susanna with his intercession for the Count, Marcellina wants to sue for the old marriage contract with Figaro and Doctor Bartolo supports her, also out of old anger against Figaro. And then there is the page Cherubino, who is in love with all women and whom all women want to be around, preferably disguised as a girl...
The plot tells of the young knight Walther von Stolzing, who is courting the middle-class Eva Pogner and - in order to get her father's permission to marry - has to write a prize song that conforms to the rules of the Meistersinger
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As great as Verdi's enthusiasm for the work of Shakespeare was, in the end only three of his operas were based on models by the English playwright - apart from Macbeth, these were his two last works for musical theater, i.e. Otello and Falstaff, both of which he based on libretti by his former artistic opponent Arrigo Boito composed
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A dancer writes a longing in the room. It is a solo of flowing ease, unfolding over those gentle waves of sound that kick off the famous "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" before it begins to waltz
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The tenor aria »Salut, demeure chaste et pure« (»Hail, chaste and pure dwelling«) is exemplary of Charles Gounod's treatment of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy
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The plot tells of the young knight Walther von Stolzing, who is courting the middle-class Eva Pogner and - in order to get her father's permission to marry - has to write a prize song that conforms to the rules of the Meistersinger
...
A dancer writes a longing in the room. It is a solo of flowing ease, unfolding over those gentle waves of sound that kick off the famous "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" before it begins to waltz
...
The tenor aria »Salut, demeure chaste et pure« (»Hail, chaste and pure dwelling«) is exemplary of Charles Gounod's treatment of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy
...
The plot tells of the young knight Walther von Stolzing, who is courting the middle-class Eva Pogner and - in order to get her father's permission to marry - has to write a prize song that conforms to the rules of the Meistersinger
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The tenor aria »Salut, demeure chaste et pure« (»Hail, chaste and pure dwelling«) is exemplary of Charles Gounod's treatment of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy
...
The plot tells of the young knight Walther von Stolzing, who is courting the middle-class Eva Pogner and - in order to get her father's permission to marry - has to write a prize song that conforms to the rules of the Meistersinger
...
A dancer writes a longing in the room. It is a solo of flowing ease, unfolding over those gentle waves of sound that kick off the famous "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" before it begins to waltz
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