Movies: Wiener Staatsoper

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...

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...

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...

Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he prefers to see as a »parable«, into the grotesque. Guth sees Calaf, son of the fugitive Tartar king Timur, »thrown into a world that he cannot underst...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

It is about nothing less than love. This is what the Wartburg singing community asks for, and this is what Tannhäuser also seeks: he finds almost endless lust with the goddess of love Venus, and hopes to attain bliss with the "pure" Elisabeth. In hi...