VIENNA - CITY OF MUSIC

 

Without music life would be a mistake

Friedrich Nietzsche
From: Arrows and Maxims

The sound of the classics meets the sound of progressive music, international pop and jazz stars fill the concert halls, jazz lovers enjoy the steadily growing jazz scene, one festival follows another, opera fans are overwhelmed by the vocal power of international stars, the sound of pulsating electronicmusic pierces the air, while lovers dance the traditional Blue Danube waltz – all that is Vienna! Welcome to the world capital of music!

Music really is in the air in Vienna, for the city was not only the home of well-known composers, but is also one of the world’s top addresses for opera. The Vienna State Opera offers a wide-ranging programme of operas and ballets on some 300 evenings a year. The highlight of the year: The Vienna Opera Ball – the meeting point par excellence for artists, politicians and businesspeople from all over the world. The ball is opened by more than one hundred debutant couples in gorgeous evening gowns and tailcoats.

Did you know that 10,000 music lovers experience classical music live every evening? Vienna’s classical concert life is mainly dominated by two renowned concert houses: the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, where the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – one of the best in the world – also performs.

But Vienna has much more than waltzes, opera and classics to offer. Why not go and see the smash musical Elisabeth at the Raimund Theater or dance the night away to a pulsating electronicbeat in one of Vienna’s hottest nightspots?

We hope you have a great time discovering Vienna – the city of music.

Further information can be found at:
http://www.wien.info/