Address
Theater an der Wien,
Linke Wienzeile 6,
1060 Vienna
Tickets
Wien Ticket,
Phone: +43-1-588 85,
www.wien-ticket.at
Info
Theater an der Wien,
Phone: +43-1-58830-660
Web
www.theater-wien.at
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Mozart at the Theater an der Wien
Coinciding with the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth in January 2006, the Theater an der Wien was inaugurated as a new opera house in Vienna.
As a stagione opera house with year-round performances, the Theater an der Wien will represent a new, independent category at the high end of Vienna’s arts industry. The theatre will be open twelve months a year, with a premiere every month, and will present a stagione programme of operas. This means that the cast of each opera will remain unchanged from the first performance to the last, to ensure uniform quality at the highest international level.
This is not just any theatre - it is the theatre which Emanuel Schikaneder, the versatile genius, actor, organiser and, above all, librettist of The Magic Flute built, in the spirit of Mozart, in Vienna in 1801. On 8 January 2006, a new era began at the Theater an der Wien. Vienna’s new opera house was opened with a scintillating inaugural concert featuring such stars as Plácido Domingo, Thomas Quasthoff, Tzimon Barto and Julian Rachlin.
The Theater an der Wien has set itself the task of presenting representative examples of Mozart’s "immortal music" in the year 2006. Five of Mozart’s most important operas - Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, The Magic Flute, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni - will be presented in exceptional new productions by Willy Decker, Christof Loy, Krystian Lupa, Patrice Chéreau and Keith Warner. With the renowned conductors Bertrand de Billy, Paolo Carignagni, Daniel Harding, Fabio Luisi and Seiji Ozawa, musical productions at the highest level of excellence are guaranteed.
In addition, international stars such as Sir Simon Rattle, Gidon Kremer, Thomas Hampson, Maurizio Pollini, Rudolf Buchbinder and others will give about 20 concerts, providing a cross-section of the instrumental œuvre of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Requiem, choreographed by John Neumeier, will be performed in Vienna in a new musical production. And an extraordinary evening of dance, choreographed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker and performed by her contemporary dance company ROSAS from Brussels, will reveal the possibilities of interaction between music (concert arias by Mozart) and dance.
While the Theater an der Wien has always had a firm commitment to history and to Mozart, the new opera house is also dedicated to contemporary music. This additional focus will be emphasised in the premiere of Bernard Lang’s I Hate Mozart on 8 November.
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