Enjoy the Schonbrunn magic with one of our three exclusive packages! Just make your selection among the following: Dinner and Concert, Palace Tour and Concert or all three. One thing is for certain: you will have a memorable evening in Schonbrunn.

Palace Tour

Empress Maria Theresa made Schloss Schonbrunn into her magnificent summer residence. All her successors resided at the palace during summer and ruled the empire from there. Especially Emperor Franz Joseph liked to spend his time at the Palace Schonbrunn.

Take a tour of the glamorous and private rooms of the emperors accompanied by an audio guide. For groups of 10 people or more a separate guide will be available to show you the apartments of Maria Theresa exclusively and outside the regular opening times of the palace.

Dinner

At the Ehrenhof ('Court of Honor'), right beside the entrance of Schloss Schonbrunn, in the rooms of the former imperial kitchen lies the Caf-Restaurant Residenz. Here, you will enjoy a three-course dinner by candlelight. In summer, dinner is served on the cozy outside dining area.

Concert

In walking distance from the main entrance to Schloss Schoenbrunn and the Caf-Restaurant Residenz lies the Orangery Schonbrunn. Since imperial times, this was a place for courtly festivities and banquets. During one of these events Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri held a unique music contest. In this historic ambience the Schonbrunn Palace Orchestra performs the most beautiful works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss.

From the beginning of April to the end of October, at Christmas and at New Year's Eve, the concert will be performed by the Schonbrunn Palace Orchestra in grand cast. In late autumn and in winter the concert will be performed by the Schonbrunn Chamber Ensemble.

Package 1 Dinner and Concert

This package offers a unique combination of two delightful destinations: gourmet cuisine and world-famous music. Enjoy a first-class dinner at Caf-Restaurant Residenz, followed by a concert at Schonbrunn Palace Orangery including the most beautiful works written by Mozart and Strauss, accompanied by vocalists and ballet dancers. A delightful evening for your palate, eyes and ears alike!

The evening

6:15 p.m. at the latest

Individual guests are requested to pick up their concert tickets and their dinner voucher at our office located at the Orangery.

We are open daily from 9:00 a.m. Groups will receive all documents from one of our staff members at the restaurant.

6:30 p.m.
Dinner at Caf-Restaurant Residenz

Starting at 8:00 p.m.
Admittance into Schonbrunn Palace Orangery

8:30 p.m: Concert starts
Approx. 10:15 p.m: Concert ends

After the concert, taxis will be available right outside Schonbrunn Palace Orangery. The subway runs until midnight in five to eight-minute intervals.

Dates
This package is available year-round except on December 24 and 31 and January 1.

Package 2 - Palace Visit and Concert

Have an evening of royal pleasures just like the royalty in times long past: start by walking through the sumptuous palace and enjoy a grand finale at the Schonbrunn Palace Orangery, embarking on a musical journey with the Schonbrunn Palace Orchestra. Since individual guests will be taking the tour accompanied by an audioguide, they are free to choose the time of the visit as long as they take it within the palace's official opening hours. Groups of more than 10 will enjoy an exclusive guided tour given by one of the palace's guides in the evening, after the palace has closed for the public and quieted down. Schonbrunn Palace with an extra special touch! Following your tour of the palace's ceremonial rooms, the Schonbrunn Palace Orchestra will take you on a journey to the world of Mozart and Strauss, accompanied by singing and dance - performed exclusively for you at Schonbrunn Palace Orangery.

Individual guests are requested to pick up their concert tickets, their audioguide voucher and their dinner voucher at our office located at the Orangery.

We are open daily from 9:00 a.m. Groups will receive their documents at 5:20 p.m. right at the main entrance to the palace/ticketing counter from one of our staff members.

Start of Palace visit:
During the winter, we recommend that individual guests start the audioguide palace tour at 4:00 p.m. at the latest. During the summer, please start your tour before 5:00 p.m. The palace tours for groups start at 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. respectively.

You also have the option of taking the palace tour at any time during the official opening hours of Schonbrunn Palace.

Schoenbrunn Palace Opening Hours

The evening

4:00 p.m./5:00 p.m. at the latest:
Audioguide palace tour for individual guests*

7:00 p.m:
Exclusive guided palace tour for groups

Starting at 8:00 p.m:
Admission into Schonbrunn Palace Orangery

8:30 p.m: Concert Starts
Approx. 10:15 p.m: Concert Ends

*Please note the palace's opening hours! After the concert, taxis will be available right outside Schonbrunn Palace Orangery. The subway runs until midnight in five to eight-minute intervals.

Dates
This package is available year-round except on December 24 and 31 and January 1.

Package 3 - Palace Tour, Dinner and Concert

This package offers royal delight times three! We have assembled the best Schonbrunn has to offer: a tour of Schonbrunn Palace, an exclusive dinner at Caf-Restaurant Residenz as well as the grand finale a concert of classical music with works by Mozart and Strauss at the Orangery. Since individual guests will be taking the tour accompanied by an audioguide, they are free to choose the starting time of the visit. Groups of 10 and up will enjoy an exclusive guided tour given by one of the palace's guides in the evening, after the palace has closed for the public and quieted down. Embark on an unsurpassed miniature journey in Schonbrunn.

Individual guests are requested to pick up their concert tickets, their audioguide voucher and their dinner voucher at our office located at the Orangery. We are open daily from 9:00 a.m. Groups will receive their documents at 5:20 p.m. right at the main entrance to the palace/ticketing counter from one of our staff members.

Start of Palace visit:
During the winter, we recommend that individual guests start the audioguide palace tour at 4:00 p.m. at the latest. During the summer, please start your tour before 5:00 p.m. The palace tours for groups start at 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. respectively.

You also have the option of taking the palace tour at any time during the official opening hours of Schonbrunn Palace.

Schonbrunn Palace Opening hours

Program

4:00 p.m./5:00 p.m. at the latest:
Audioguide palace tour for individual guests*

5:30 p.m:
Exclusive guided palace tour for groups

6:30 p.m:
Dinner at Caf-Restaurant Residenz

Starting at 8:00 p.m:
Admission into Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery

8:30 p.m: Concert starts
Approx. 10:15 p.m: Concert ends

*Please note the palace's opening hours!

After the concert, taxis will be available right outside Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery. The subway runs until midnight in five to eight-minute intervals.

Dates
This package is available year-round except on December 24 and 31 and January 1.


Times: Apr - Dec Various Days

Package 1; Dinner and Concert - 6.15pm

Package 2; Palace Tour and Concert - 4pm

Package 3; Palace Tour, Dinner and Concert - 4pm

Please exchange voucher at the Box Office.

Transfer from Vienna to St. Margarethen and back on every Festival Day.

Departure: 6:00pm from "Busterminal VIB" - Wien 3, U3-Erdberg, Erdbergstr. 200A

Return: 30 mins after end of the performance, arrival in Vienna approx 1:30am

Dates:

July 2010: 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th, 31st

August 2010: 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th

Customers must show their voucher to the driver when boarding the bus.

Transfer from Vienna to Morbisch and back on every Festival Day.

Transfer is for Lake Festival Moerbisch from Vienna.

Lake Festival Moerbisch is loacated in an area called Burgenland:

Departure: 5:30pm from "Busterminal VIB" - Wien 3, U3-Erdberg, Erdbergstr. 200A

Return: 30 mins after end of the performance, arrival in Vienna approx 1:00am

Dates:

July 2010: 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th, 31st

August 2010: 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th

Customers must show their voucher to the driver when boarding the bus.

Aida is one of the most performed operas in the repertoire a tale of a legendary love stronger than death, and a very modern parable about nationalism, belligerence and hatred of the enemy. Giuseppe Verdis monumental opera Aida is returning to the spectacular Floating Stage at Bregenz in summer 2010.

The story of the tragic love between the Ethiopian princess Aida once brought to the Nile as a slave and the Egyptian commander Radames was a triumph at its premiere in Cairo in 1871. Since then it has become one of the most popular and most performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

Verdi conceived Aida as an opera that would have no equal. It has grandiose choral scenes and rousing rhythmic marches, gorgeous arias and romantic duets all brought harmoniously together, and their effect is further enhanced by the exotic flavour of the music. The famous triumphal march with its blaring fanfares and stirring choruses is one of the musical and dramatic highpoints of grand Italian opera.

Director Graham Vick and stage designer Paul Brown were keen to make use of Lake Constance in Aida, not just as a grand backdrop but as an integral part of the production. With ships and platforms, parts of the stage set that emerge from under the water, and entry points for the performers which are both on and under the water the stage set for Aida will come into being during the performance itself before the eyes of the audience.

Verdi and the Floating Stage

"There was, of course, nothing random about my decision to mount Aida, another opera by Guiseppe Verdi, on the Floating Stage. This stage is after all a marvellous venue for everything that this composer did best: transforming grand passion and tragic conflict into superb music." David Pountney, artistic director.

David Pountney's own thrilling and highly acclaimed production of Nabucco in the summer of 1993 and 1994 launched what has become a remarkable series of operas by Giuseppe Verdi on the Bregenz Festival's Floating Stage. It has been clear at least since 1999 with the opera A Masked Ball, whose stage sculpture of a giant skeleton leafing through a book attracted attention all over the world, that the Bregenz Floating Stage and Giuseppe Verdi are a perfect match.

The Floating Stage would seem indeed to be the ideal venue for Verdi operas. With their huge choruses, moving mass scenes and dramatic duets, it is as though they were written specifically with the open-air stage in mind, with its great possibilities for imposing sets.

So Aida will be the opera on the Floating Stage for the first time. David Pountney is not the least perturbed by the fact that the Floating Stage stands in a lake and not in a desert. "It's the first time in the Festival's history that this magnificent 'desert opera' has been staged on the shore of Lake Constance, and of course its poses a considerable challenge. But we think we have found a really exciting production concept."

Performance Info

9:15pm - 23rd July, 24th July, 25th July, 27th July, 29th July, 30th July, 31st July

9:00pm - 1st Aug, 3rd Aug, 4th Aug, 5th Aug, 6th Aug, 7th Aug, 11th Aug, 12th Aug, 13th Aug, 14th Aug, 15th Aug, 16th Aug, 18th Aug, 19th Aug, 20th Aug, 21st Aug, 22nd Aug.

Running Time: 2 hrs 15 mins

Experience 23 of German songwriter Udo Jrgens best songs in a rousing musical. Enjoy hits such as "Aber bitte mit Sahne", "Mit 66 Jahren" and, of course, "Ich war noch niemals in New York". Board a luxury liner and experience a story packed with dreams, longing and wanderlust.

The charming, witty musical ICH WAR NOCH NIEMALS IN NEW YORK ("I've never been to New York") is all about the highs and lows of life and love. The central figure is TV reporter Lisa Wartberg, who has neglected her mother Maria to concentrate on her career. On the spur of the moment the fun-loving old lady decides to marry her true love, Otto Staudach, in New York under the Statue of Liberty and the couple secretly board a cruise liner.

While trying to stop her mother eloping Lisa Wartberg meets Axel Staudach, who is searching for his father. A turbulent story on the high seas begins with lots of laughs, self-knowledge and mix-ups... A short break for the soul if ever there was one!

Times:

• Sun @ 6pm

• Tue-Thur @ 7.30pm

• Fri & Sat @ 7.30pm

also runs on Mon 28th June @ 7.30pm

The world's greatest operetta festival takes place on one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe. The appropriate setting is given by the picturesque town of Moerbisch and the impressive natural scenery of the " Neusiedler See " sixty kilometers away from Vienna. The plot of Der Zarewitsch is loosely based on a true story: the self imposed exile of the son of Peter the Great, Alexei, who shirked his father's command by running away to Naples with his Finnish mistress disguised as a page. The couple spent two years galavanting around until Alexei was compelled by his father to return. His father was paranoid that Alexei was conspiring against him and ultimately Alexei ended up being imprisoned and tortured. The Russian senate convicted him of conspiring against his father and he was sentenced to death. He died due to ill health before he could be executed, most likely resulting from the poor treatment he received while imprisoned.

Times:

July 2010; 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th and 31st.

August 2010; 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th.

King Gunther von Burgund is afraid of the powerful Queen Brunhild vom Isarland. Should he win the match, to which he has invited her, then the wedding is pending. However so far Brunhild has simply killed most of the suitors. Only dragon slayer Siegfried has been able to conquer her. Gunther therefore asks Siegfried for assistance. Military affectation to impress and Germanic arrogance are the focus of Oscar Straus' Nibelungen persiflage, which premiered in Vienna in 1904.

The Prince has fallen victim to a serious case of hypochondria; only laughter can save him. Taking pleasure at somebody else's misfortune cures him, but also puts a curse on him, making him fall in love with three oranges.

One of the fruits is embodied by Ninetta, whom he ultimately marries. Sergei Prokofiev describes his opera as a "mixture of fairytale, amusement and satire". The Vienna Volksoper is staging Ernst Theo Richter's Hamburg production from 2002.

The first successful German opera had to make use of concepts such as "Turkish fashion" and comply with Joseph II's instruction to compose a "national musical comedy". Yet Mozart's genius shaped from these requirements an outstanding opus which was the first of his many Viennese opera masterpieces. He penetrates deep into the psychology of human relationships and also reveals an element of his own biography. The fact that the principal female figure bears the name of the woman whom Mozart married shortly thereafter - Constanze - is only ostensibly a coincidence.

Sung in German.

A Hawaiian princess returns from Paris to her homeland, where she must decide between a local prince and an American marine officer, while at the same time ensuring peace between the island dwellers and the American colonial powers.

Paul Abraham's "colonial operetta" is a brilliant piece of vaudeville combining jazz rhythms with exotic sounds.

Julia fell in love with her cousin when she was a little girl. One day he goes abroad to seek his fortune. No other man in the future is able to arouse her interest. She has Roderich, the cousin, somewhere in whatsitcalled. After several years two strangers suddenly appear shortly after each other claiming to be Roderich.

This entertaining Berlin Operetta combines humour and great emotion, narrow mindedness and exotic wishful thinking. Popular dances of the 20s alternate with moving melodies. The Berlin premiere in 1921 was a worldwide success for Eduard Knneke.

The Nutcracker tells how little Clara and her Nutcracker Prince defeat the armies of the mouse-king and embark on a magical sleigh-ride to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they meet the Sugarplum Fairy, dancing snowflakes and a whole host of delightful characters.

Duration: 2 hours

According to the beautiful and tempestuous Carmen, love is a rebellious bird, here today and gone tomorrow. Don Jos, loved by the peasant girl Micala, is bewitched by Carmen and although she temporarily encourages his advances, she soon becomes bored by him.

While attending the bull fight of the triumphant Escamillo, the half-crazed Don Jos accosts Carmen and stabs her to death. A perennial favourite, the opera "Carmen" is Bizet's undisputed masterpiece.

With this exclusive packaged hotel deal you will receive ticket(s) to "The Best of Mozart " and accommodation at either the Ramada Hotel Salzbury City Centre or Austrotel Hotel Salzburg.

The concert arrangement "Best of Mozart" offers a unique concert series in Salzburg, which was highly popular in the Mozart year in 2006. For a total of 29 weekend dates, specially arranged programs with the most diverse of W.A. Mozart’s masterpieces will be performed in two of the most beautiful concert halls Salzburg has to offer, the Mozart auditorium in the Festival Quarter and the Great Hall at the Mozarteum.

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists have put together programs of the highest quality. These programs will enthuse Mozart lovers, who have been waiting for them for a long time. In total a series of festive concert evenings with the best melodies from the most famous divertimenti and symphonies has been created. Additionally, select soloists will be singing overtures and arias from Mozart’s most loved operas.

Dance of the Vampires

Dance of the Vampires (or Tanz der Vampire as the original German language version is named) is a musical remake of a 1967 Roman Polanski film of the same name (called The Fearless Vampire Killers in the USA). Polanski also directed the original German production of this musical. Music was composed by Jim Steinman and orchestrated by Steve Margoshes, and original German book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze.

Professor Abronsius, a rather intensely wacky vampire killer, with his ardent and Byronic assistant Alfred arrive in a village where the locals protect themselves with massive amounts of Garlic. Although the villagers deny any knowledge of vampires, Professor becomes increasingly suspicious as Alfred becomes increasing smitten by Sarah, the beautiful teenage daughter of the Innkeeper. But Alfred isn't the only one after Sarah. Visited during her bath, she is soon entranced and mesmerized by the extremely cool Count Von Krolock. The Count can give Sarah what she really craves - MORE!

Sarah has to choose between earthly love with Alfred, or eternal passion with Krolock.Torn between Alfred and the Count, Sarah runs off to Krolock's castle, pursued by Alfred and Abronsius. The Count sings to Sarah seductively - telling her about the upcoming Grand Ball where, in exchange for a small bite, she can become Queen of the Vampires and rule the world. How can any small-time girl resist? There are ecstatic love duets, close encounters, unbridled dancing & wild comedy all set to the Epic score of Jim Steinman.

The climactic vampire dance erupts as Reign of the Undead begins... and everybody somehow manages to find happiness.... Vampire-style.

Performance Info

Times: Sun @ 6.00pm Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri, Sat @ 7.30pm

Please exchange voucher at the Box-Office

With this exclusive packaged hotel deal you will receive ticket(s) to "Jedermann (Everyman)" and accommodation at the Golden Tulip Hotel.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "Everyman" on the Domplatz, in case of bad weather in the Great Festival Hall.

"Everyman" awaits a feast", as Goethe wrote. A feast in this city of which the great Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal said, "Salzburg is the heart of the heart of Europe. It lies halfway between South and North, between Switzerland and the Slavic countries."

The Salzburg Festival was founded 89 years ago by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss, and is a magnet today more than ever.

Everyman, a short play of some 900 lines, portrays a complacent Everyman who is informed by Death of his approaching end.

The play shows the hero's progression from despair and fear of death to a "Christian resignation that is the prelude to redemption."

First, Everyman is deserted by his false friends: his casual companions, his kin, and his wealth. He falls back on his Good Deeds, his Strength, his Beauty, his Intelligence, and his Knowledge. These assist him in making his Book of Accounts, but at the end, when he must go to the grave, all desert him save his Good Deeds alone.

The play makes its grim point that we can take with us from this world nothing that we have received, only what we have given.

Customers must exchange their voucher at hotel reception upon arrival.

Aida is one of the most performed operas in the repertoire a tale of a legendary love stronger than death, and a very modern parable about nationalism, belligerence and hatred of the enemy. Giuseppe Verdis monumental opera Aida is returning to the spectacular Floating Stage at Bregenz in summer 2010.

The story of the tragic love between the Ethiopian princess Aida once brought to the Nile as a slave and the Egyptian commander Radames was a triumph at its premiere in Cairo in 1871. Since then it has become one of the most popular and most performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

Verdi conceived Aida as an opera that would have no equal. It has grandiose choral scenes and rousing rhythmic marches, gorgeous arias and romantic duets all brought harmoniously together, and their effect is further enhanced by the exotic flavour of the music. The famous triumphal march with its blaring fanfares and stirring choruses is one of the musical and dramatic highpoints of grand Italian opera.

Director Graham Vick and stage designer Paul Brown were keen to make use of Lake Constance in Aida, not just as a grand backdrop but as an integral part of the production. With ships and platforms, parts of the stage set that emerge from under the water, and entry points for the performers which are both on and under the water the stage set for Aida will come into being during the performance itself before the eyes of the audience.

Verdi and the Floating Stage

"There was, of course, nothing random about my decision to mount Aida, another opera by Guiseppe Verdi, on the Floating Stage. This stage is after all a marvellous venue for everything that this composer did best: transforming grand passion and tragic conflict into superb music." David Pountney, artistic director.

David Pountney's own thrilling and highly acclaimed production of Nabucco in the summer of 1993 and 1994 launched what has become a remarkable series of operas by Giuseppe Verdi on the Bregenz Festival's Floating Stage. It has been clear at least since 1999 with the opera A Masked Ball, whose stage sculpture of a giant skeleton leafing through a book attracted attention all over the world, that the Bregenz Floating Stage and Giuseppe Verdi are a perfect match.

The Floating Stage would seem indeed to be the ideal venue for Verdi operas. With their huge choruses, moving mass scenes and dramatic duets, it is as though they were written specifically with the open-air stage in mind, with its great possibilities for imposing sets.

So Aida will be the opera on the Floating Stage for the first time. David Pountney is not the least perturbed by the fact that the Floating Stage stands in a lake and not in a desert. "It's the first time in the Festival's history that this magnificent 'desert opera' has been staged on the shore of Lake Constance, and of course its poses a considerable challenge. But we think we have found a really exciting production concept."

Performance Info

9:15pm - 23rd July, 24th July, 25th July, 27th July, 29th July, 30th July, 31st July

9:00pm - 1st Aug, 3rd Aug, 4th Aug, 5th Aug, 6th Aug, 7th Aug, 11th Aug, 12th Aug, 13th Aug, 14th Aug, 15th Aug, 16th Aug, 18th Aug, 19th Aug, 20th Aug, 21st Aug, 22nd Aug.

Running Time: 2 hrs 15 mins

Nine months have passed since the collapse of the Roman Republic and Scarpia, head of the Roman police has set up a remorseless terror regime. Even the singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, get into a deadly conflict with the brutal chief of police ... - An enthralling piece of musical theatre! Giacomo Puccini pursued clear aims with his masterpiece, which celebrated its world premiere in 1900: "The sentiment in 'Tosca' is not romantic and lyrical, but passionate, excruciating, bleak. Up until now we were gentle, now we want to be brutal."

All hell breaks out in heaven when Pluto, god of the underworld, and his brother Jupiter get into a fight over the recently abducted Eurydice. And what will the Public Opinion say about it, when the truth comes out that Orpheus, that frivolous violin teacher, doesn't even want her back?

In 1858, Jacques Offenbach, the father of the operetta, published his travesty of the classical antiquity; ever since, generations of friends of the 'light muse' have delighted to the effervescent, champagne-like melodies, above all the saucy can-can.

Ben van Cauwenbergh's choreography transposes the vitality of "Queen" songs into the language of dance.

It's all about love and heartache, about the golden days of rock 'n' roll, an atmosphere of thrilling suspense, grotesque and crazy humour, and finally about the slow farewell to life.

Even before the Vienna first night of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" opened in 1857, the world premiere of Johann Nestroy's opera persiflage "Tannhäuser" at the Carltheater met with spectacular success. Robert Meyer, ingeniously supported by the Neuen Wiener Concert Schrammeln, turns the work into a dizzying one-man show. All nine of the major roles, and almost all of the minor roles, are played by Meyer himself, who changes facial expression, pitch of voice and manner of speaking, and gestures in the blink of an eye. "A delight for Wagnerians, but also for admirers of Nestroy and of Meyer." (Kurier)

At the end of Gyula Harangoz's era as director of the ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper is a Ballet Gala consisting of a series of outstanding performances. Exceptional presentations of both classical and contemporary choreography will be performed by the members of the ensemble and guest solo artists.

Lehr's enduringly popular operetta, which became a world-wide success after its 1905 premiere at Vienna's Theater an der Wien, tells the story of the young widow Hanna Glawari, left a vast fortune, who is prevailed upon to marry a Pontevedrian in order to rescue the financially beleaguered Pontevedro.

The high-living rogue Count Danilo is pressured to be the groom but, despite his love for Hanna, he refuses to declare himself, not wishing to appear to be a mere fortune-hunter. It takes muchintrigue and feminine wiles for the all to end well, and Pontevedro to be rescued from bankruptcy.

This quintessential Viennese operetta deserves to be enjoyed throughout the year, and not just on New Year's Eve. Eisenstein evades a summons to serve a brief prison sentence by accepting Falke's invitation to Prince Orlowsky's party.

His wife's former beau Alfred is escorted to jail in his place, having been mistakenly identified as Eisenstein. At the party everyone plays an assumed part, and later must share in the quilt of deception.

A drunken prison guard, a stolen watch ... somehow everything is worked out in the end and the operetta's motto "Glcklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ndern ist" ("happy are they who forget what can't be changed") rings true. Sung in German with English surtitles.

The well known tragic love story between the high-class coutesan Violetta and Alfredo, son of a respected Parisian family. With Alfredo the beautiful high-class courtesan Violetta finally finds true love. After a brief spell of happiness enjoyed together Alfredo's father manages, nevertheless, to convince Violetta of the social damage this relationship causes his family.

In desperation, she leaves Alfredo and throws herself into the Parisian demimonde with disastrous effects on her health,already ravaged by consumption. Reconciliation comes too late. Sung in Italian with German surtitles.

The concert arrangement "Best of Mozart" offers a unique concert series in Salzburg, which was highly popular in the Mozart year in 2006. For a total of 29 weekend dates, specially arranged programs with the most diverse of W.A. Mozart’s masterpieces will be performed in the most beautiful concert halls Salzburg has to offer.

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists have put together programs of the highest quality. These programs will enthuse Mozart lovers, who have been waiting for them for a long time. In total a series of festive concert evenings with the best melodies from the most famous divertimenti and symphonies has been created. Additionally, select soloists will be singing overtures and arias from Mozart’s most loved operas.

The concert arrangement "Best of Mozart" offers a unique concert series in Salzburg, which was highly popular in the Mozart year in 2006. For a total of 29 weekend dates, specially arranged programs with the most diverse of W.A. Mozart’s masterpieces will be performed in two of the most beautiful concert halls Salzburg has to offer, the Mozart auditorium in the Festival Quarter and the Great Hall at the Mozarteum.

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists have put together programs of the highest quality. These programs will enthuse Mozart lovers, who have been waiting for them for a long time. In total a series of festive concert evenings with the best melodies from the most famous divertimenti and symphonies has been created. Additionally, select soloists will be singing overtures and arias from Mozart’s most loved operas.

The concert arrangement "Best of Mozart" offers a unique concert series in Salzburg, which was highly popular in the Mozart year in 2006. For a total of 29 weekend dates, specially arranged programs with the most diverse of W.A. Mozart’s masterpieces will be performed in two of the most beautiful concert halls Salzburg has to offer, the Mozart auditorium in the Festival Quarter and the Great Hall at the Mozarteum.

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists have put together programs of the highest quality. These programs will enthuse Mozart lovers, who have been waiting for them for a long time. In total a series of festive concert evenings with the best melodies from the most famous divertimenti and symphonies has been created. Additionally, select soloists will be singing overtures and arias from Mozart’s most loved operas.