The Volksoper is Vienna's great house for operetta, opera, musicals, and ballet, and has been offering sophisticated musical entertainment for over years. Colorful, diverse, and vivacious, it is the only theater in Vienna dedicated to the genre of operetta.
Artistic Director Lotte de Beer and Music Director Ben Glassberg have joined forces at the Vienna Volksoper to build bridges between tradition and renewal, nostalgia and utopia. An establishment where people can be seduced, where they are invited to reflect and where they can laugh with no inhibition.
The prerequisites are perfect, since variety and proximity to the audience are part of the theater's DNA. Nowhere else in Vienna can opera, operetta , musicals and dance be found together on a single stage.
We look forward to new artists and works, but also to the popular and familiar. Here are some of the highlights:. Almost a quarter of audience members at the Volksoper are under 30 years old, so there is also a lot going on in the Junge Volksoper program.
However, Die Fledermaus is not the only Strauss work on the program at the Volksoper. Happy Birthday! Strauss locations in Vienna. The present-day Vienna Volksoper was opened in as the "Emperor's Anniversary City Theater" and initially run as a lyric theater only.
