Così fan tutte

Guglielmo and Ferrando are two smug officers who are convinced that their wives will be eternally faithful to them. However, skeptic Don Alfonso asserts that there is no such thing as a faithful woman and proposes a portentous wager. The bet entails testing the two wives’, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, fidelity. Mozart’s musical test of loyalty in cooperation with librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, is his most pronounced operatic excursion into fickleness of love and morals with the title of the piece Così fan tutte––Women are like that––cleverly reflecting on the subject matter. However, does this apply only to women?
10 June - 6 July 2018 | BlackBox Musiktheater
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Death in Venice

Thomas Mann’s 1911 novel, Death in Venice, is without a doubt one of the highlights in German literature. It’s the compelling story of the aging author Gustav Aschenbach, who, in cholera–infested Venice, encounters the beautiful young boy, Tadzio and falls in love with him. The fateful story so fascinated the British composer, Benjamin Britten that it served as the inspiration for his last opera, Death in Venice. It is one of his densest and dramaturgically most innovative works. 
19 May - 6 July 2018 | Großer Saal Musiktheater

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Eugene Onegin

In 1833 Alexander Pushkin published his universally acclaimed verse novel, Eugene Onegin, and thereby ushered in the era of the great, realistic, poetic novel. In 1879 Peter lljich Tchaikovsky composed an operatic rendition of Pushkin’s bored Russian dandy and intellectual, who confronts people and their feelings with sarcasm. The lush Russian romantic score, elegiac and spacious, is the perfect musical setting, allowing the characters to devote themselves entirely to their projections of love.     
14 April - 28 June 2018 | Großer Saal Musiktheater More

Betty Blue Eyes - The musical with the pig

The setting: a small Northern English town in 1947. A few local businessmen want to host a banquet in honor of the impending marriage of Princess Elisabeth and Prince Philip. Of course, this requires a large, good piece of meat for the occasion. But food is rationed at the time and meat hard to get. The idea is hatched to illegally mast a pig for the occasion: Betty, a pink dream of an animal. However the chiropodist, Gilbert Chilvers hears about the plan and on the prompting of his wife decides to steal Betty. More mayhem ensues, but who can slaughter a loveable pig with such doleful blue eyes.  
24 February - 3 July 2018 | Großer Saal Musiktheater More

A Night in Venice

Welcome to the Landestheater Linz

Since 2013, Linz has had a new cultural landmark: the Musiktheater am Volksgarten, Europe’s most modern opera house, which is where the operas, operettas, musicals and dance productions of the Landestheater Linz are put on. The new building stands out because of its excellent acoustics, high level of visitor comfort and state-of-the-art stage technology.
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