Movies: Wiener Staatsoper

Production of the Vienna State Opera, October 2024. Inspired by a visit to the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, director Kirill Serebrennikov brings the plot of Don Carlo into a contemporary context. He was also inspired by this institute for his st...

A performance of Strauss' opera performed/streamed in Vienna on the 23rd October 2014...

In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell....

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle...

Production of Verdi's opera Otello, performed and streamed on March 18, 2018....

Since its premiere in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale opera »Hansel and Gretel« has awakened a passion for music theatre in generations of children. Even his great contemporaries – such as Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler or Johannes Brahms – w...

Performance of Verdi's opera performed/streamed from Vienna on the 28th March 2015....

A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera....

The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Claudio Abbado. A moody opera that is thematically broad at times and int...

The plot of Die Fledermaus is woven around a ball given by Prince Orlofsky....

Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro performed live (and streamed) on the February 4, 2021....

The 2016 Don Carlo production at the Vienna State Opera, directed by Daniele Abbado, offered a modern, minimalist take on Verdi's masterpiece. Abbado emphasized the psychological and political tensions within the story, employing stark sets and subdu...

Performance of Janacek's opera performed/streamed live in Vienna on April 27th, 2017....