Theater an der Wien

The 2011/12 season offers 26 exquisite musical theater productions, including ten scenic operas:

The season kicks off with Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (based on the Henry James novella) under the direction of Robert Carsen.

This will be followed by Georg Friedrich Händel's Baroque opera gem "Serse" under conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi.

Great anticipation surrounds the upcoming first performance of "Gogol" by Russian-born Lera Auerbach, who numbers among the most frequently performed contemporary composers. Director Christine Mielitz has announced a "wild piece".

The next premiere is a jump back by more than 400 years to Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo", now performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ivor Bolton and directed by Claus Guth.

Kirill Petrenko will conduct opera evenings that combine two quite different love stories: Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" and Rachmaninoff's "Francesca da Rimini".

Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Telemaco", a rarely performed piece, will be performed by René Jacobs and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin as well as the Arnold Schönberg Choir.

Finally, there will be a chance to experience Jacques Offenbach's fantastic opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann"). The lead role of the German poet will be played in the first round of performances by tenor Kurt Streit and then by the soprano Marlis Petersen in the second.

With Abroise Thomas's "Hamlet", the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marc Minkowski, is taking up a treatment of Shakespeare's play from the French Romantic.

Christof Loy will direct Gioachino Rossini's "La Donne del Lago", played by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under the young British conductor Leo Hussain.

A total of twelve operas will be performed concertante: Five performances of works by Georg Friedrich Händel, three by Mal Antonio Vivaldi as well as works by Henry Purcell, Antonín Dvořák, Georges Aperghis and Kurt Weill.

Theater an der Wien

Linke Wienzeile 6
1060   Wien
www.theater-wien.at

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disabled parking spaces available.

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2 wheelchair spaces available (Parterre).

Restrooms with access for disabled persons available.

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Wheelchair-accessible parking in front of the theatre (from 6 pm).

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• +43 1 588 30 661