Live streams from the Vienna State Opera will be available in Austria - and for the time being also internationally - free of charge. Register here. For viewers outside of Austria, highlights from the ...

VIENNA (Reuters) – Vienna State Opera will be headed by a former pop radio boss and record company executive, Austria’s Culture Ministry said on Wednesday, hoping to attract a younger audience to ...

It's a story full of misunderstandings: Love is confused with desire, an affair with an exclusive relationship, affection with possession, and violence with passion. But the highest price in this web ...

A portmanteau of Otto Wagner visuals and works of his Viennese Secession friends, the Vienna State Opera’s Parsifal is often gorgeous to look at, and offers nothing to remember, except that vague ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Not many opera seasons start off as dramatically as this year's did at the Vienna State Opera with two star conductors storming off, but the opera's director Dominique Meyer wants ...

Thirty-five years ago, I visited Vienna on my first backpacking trip to Europe. I have a faint memory of touring the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Naturhistorisches Museum, Schönbrunn Palace, and ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg This was featured in live coverage.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Franz Welser-Moest, one of Austria's most famous conductors, has quit as musical director of Vienna's famed State Opera just days after its 2014-15 season began, citing an artistic ...

Harold Schonberg's book Lives of the Great Composers is divided into chapters based on the life and work of a single composer and entitled descriptively. Schonberg's chapter on Ludwig van Beethoven is ...