Elena Stikhina (one of the 2016 winners of the Operalia Competition) continues her faultless career, notably as a special guest of the Wiener Staatsoper, a major international stage. The Russian soprano will be performing as Tosca on 2, 5 and 10 February 2024 before taking on the two heroines of Il Trittico, another superb masterpiece […]
The great prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri has just been appointed the new director of the Vienna Opera Ballet. From 1 September 2025, she will succeed Martin Schläpfer, who has decided not to renew his contract. The Etoile will take over the artistic direction of the ballet company (and also that of the Wiener Staatsoper […]
Following a performance of Richard Strauss‘s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Wiener Staatsoper on 14 October 2023, conductor Christian Thielemann (who is particularly in the news after being appointed to replace Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin) has been made an Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera. Since his […]
A new production is always an event at the Wiener Staatsoper. What can we say when we’re talking about three operas! On 4 October 2023, Austria’s leading opera house will welcome Puccini’s Il trittico. Philippe Jordan conducts the three operas that make up this famous triptych in one evening: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni […]
At the end of a performance of Tosca in which he performed as the terrifying Scarpia, the warm Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott received a fine tribute from the Wiener Staatsoper. The leading Austrian opera house and one of the most prestigious in Europe has named him Kammersänger, an honour that rewards a fine career and […]
As in the rest of Austria, the Wiener Staatsoper has closed its doors to avoid contamination. The good news is that the legendary Viennese opera house is reopening its doors to the public and will welcome its audience again from this evening, 13 December 2021. For safety reasons, it was decided to cancel the Vienna […]
Omer Meir Wellber, who was scheduled to conduct the next performances of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur at the Wiener Staatsoper (22, 25, 29 October, 2 & 5 November 2021), has cancelled his visit to Vienna due to injury. In his place, Asher Fisch will conduct David McVicar’s beautiful production with a superb cast: Ermonela Jaho, Elina […]
The renowned Wiener Staatsoper is also adjusting to the time of confinement by offering the free broadcast of a selection of recordings from its digital archive during its temporary closure in November. Among the performances on line, on Friday 6 November 2020, starting at 19:00, Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin (with Andrè Schuen and Nicole Car) in […]
Like the Opéra national de Paris, the famous Wiener Staatsoper opens dress rehearsals to young audiences. If you are under 27 years old, for the modest sum of 10 euros, you will be able to discover all the new productions such as Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with the exceptional Asmik Grigorian as Cio-Cio-San staged by Anthony […]
Unfortunatly for health reasons, conductor Mikko Franck is facing a new cancellation serie. He is forced to cancel his visit to the Wiener Staatsoper in January 2020. Dennis Russell Davies replaces to conduct Richard Strauss’s Salome and Jonathan Darlington to conduct Verdi’s Otello. Photo : Mikko Franck © Christophe Abramowitz
