Highlights from the Vienna New Year’s Concert 2012

Some Highlights

A neat video with great views of Vienna – Music in the Air

Vienna Philharmonic plays two Emperor Marches

We are used to hearing the legendary Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the few orchestras in the world that pick their conductor and not the other way around playing music like this emperors march. But sometimes music from another empire is heard in Schönbrunn.

New Year’s Concert from Vienna

As every year the New Year is rung in with Austria’s New Years concert!
The venerable concert is the largest world-wide event in classical music reaching over a billion people annually through radio and television in 72 countries. The Vienna Philharmonic’s traditional New Year’s program has showcased Viennese musical culture at the highest level, and since [...]

John Malkovich plays in Vienna

John Malkovich loves Vienna. He played serial killer Jack Unterweger last year and returns this January as Casanova to Vienna’s Ronacher Theater. The Giacomo Variations is described as a mix between a play and an opera and will feature music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
His childhood dream was to be a “Wiener Sängerknabe”, at 56 this [...]

Chicago Operetta plays Kálmán

Chicago Folks Operetta, with its rich tradition of premiering rarely heard operettas, is delighted to present the American premiere of Arizona Lady, the last operetta written by the great Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán. This romantic operetta will take you back to the rough-and-tumble, happy-go-lucky wild west of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. It tells [...]

New Yorks Viennese Opera Ball to donate proceeds to Haiti

The Ball’s 55th Consecutive Annual Gala at the Waldorf=Astoria on February 5th
New York, NY: In a dramatic and timely move, it was announced today that the 55th Viennese Opera Ball’s “Magical Night at the Opera” on February 5th, in partnership with the UN Office for Partnerships, UN Foundation, and the anti-malaria “Nothing But Nets” [...]

An Austrian Favorite: Sacher Torte

Ingredients: Six eggs (separated), 130 g butter, 130 g chocolate, 130 g flour, 200 g sugar, chocolate icing, apricot jam.
Instructions: Stir half of the sugar into the butter until stiff, then briefly stir in the egg yolks and the liquid-but-still-luke-warm chocolate. Mix and beat the egg whites and the rest of the sugar into a [...]

Gustav Mahler Celebration in Vienna

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) is celebrated as a fin de siècle genius and one of the great pioneers of 20th century music. The composer’s 150th birthday celebrations will take place in 2010, followed by the 100th anniversary of his death a year later. Mahler headed the Vienna State Opera for 10 years.
Gustav Mahler [...]