One Of The Leading Opera Houses In The World! "Wiener Staatsoper" At A Glance And My First Job As A Background Actor.

Every time I pass by the wonderful and majestic building in the city centre on the famous Ringstrasse boulevard, I stop, look up, stand still for minutes and feel proud to be born in Vienna. 

Adress: Opernring 2, 1010 Wien

G'schichten aus des Wiener Wald! My Tale.  

My mother told me more than once that I could have been a famous ballerina because when I was 4 or 5 years old, an elegant lady approached her at the park, to praise my talent for rhythm and movement. I was spinning around at the playground, singing some songs, I heard on the radio. She offered a place at the Viennese opera school. 

Oh well ......She was right about my love for music but this carreer didn't work out too well because beside dancing in most house clubs and techno festivals in the world and standing in the background on some opera stages in my high school days, to earn my first income, I didn't walk the path towards such destiny. 

I do not regret!

My father wouldn't allow me to join and I was too young to fight for. He was a full blood musician, played 12 instruments and each of his three children had to learn one as well. We grew up around quality sound. 

I am still wondering why he didn't want me to join this class. The doors were closed since then. I never asked him. 

The Opera House stayed magical for me and after all those years I feel more and more attracted to classical music.   

I hope that one day, I might have a chance and can see one of the 60 operas and ballets, over 350 performances, scheduled each season with my dear friend Daphne, an opera singer.

Maybe our wish and dream will become true, to sit next to each other, to enjoy one of our idols singing just for us. She lives in New Zealand but we met in Bali a few years back at the Seminyak Rotary Club, doing our charity work. 

We kept in touch since then and she keeps me updated what programs are running in Europe. 

Let's do It Girl! 

Here is the program for 2017/18!

Calendar and Ticket sales 

The opera house is shining like the streets Christmas decorations. 

Meanwhile I share those photos for her and everybody who comes to visit my hometown. 

Don't miss out to go at least on the panorama tour. 

In 2013, director Dominique Meyer launched Wiener Staatsoper live at home, a project for digital outreach: It allows opera and ballet lovers all over the world to follow the performances of the Wiener Staatsoper on their digital devices. - Source  

Architecture : Exterior , Interior , Backstage, Auditorium, Safety Curtain

Wiener Staatsoper at a glance 

Read more about the History and Reconstruction after World War II. 

On May 25, 1869, the opera house solemnly opened with Mozart's DON JUAN in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. The popularity of the building grew under the artistic influence of the first directors: Franz von Dingelstedt, Johann Herbeck, Franz Jauner, and Wilhelm Jahn. The Vienna opera experienced its first high point under the direction of Gustav Mahler. He completely transformed the outdated performance system, increased the precision and timing of the performances, and also utilized the experience of other noteworthy artists, such as Alfred Roller, for the formation of new stage aesthetics. The years 1938 to 1945 were a dark chapter in the history of the opera house. Under the Nazis, many members of the house were driven out, pursued, and killed, and many works were not allowed to be played.- Source 

• 600,000 spectators each season
• 9 premieres
• 60 operas and ballets in the repertoire, from Baroque to contemporary
• 45 live streams each season
• 1 Opera Ball
• 220 singers, of which 60 ensemble members
• 30 conductors
• around 100 dancers in the Vienna State Ballet
• around 200 stage hands
• overall 950 staff members
• 1709 seats, 567 standing room places

Visit also the Cafe Oper and most famous "Wuerstelstand" close by.......

Elegant Ambience!

The Stars!

I really enjoyed those times as a background actor or extra, performing at various opera houses in Vienna and one of the most memorable ones was The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach at Volksoper Vienna, Währinger Straße 78, 1090 Vienna. It is the main stage for pperette, musicals and sophisticated musical entertainment. 

I just found out scrolling online, that this Operette is in the program for 2018 and I will go to remember my first walk on stage from left to the right, in high heels with bright lights shining on me. I was shivering but it was fun when I made it to the other side without falling down, my biggest fear. 

The Tales of Hoffmann, Sat 05 May 2018 and many more dates 

In 1881 a fire broke out at Vienna‘s Ringtheater during a performance of "Hoffmann", and the orchestral material was later destroyed in a fire at the Parisian Opéra Comique. Was this the devil himself getting revenge for his satirical treatment in Offenbach‘s operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld"? In any case,
the devil also plays a central role in "The Tales of Hoffmann" by thwarting all of the titular hero‘s love affairs. 

Hoffmann‘s faithful Muse leads him back to the thing which enraptures and comforts him the most: art.

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