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

Romeo + Julia

Every one of us is Romeo; every one of us is Julia. The universality of the love story between the two protagonists from Shakespeare’s iconic drama resonates in many of us. Mei Hong Lin takes the core idea of this tragic love story and illuminates the unbridled power of love that cannot be. It’s a love that unravels due to the constraints of rules and rivalries, forcing the two lovers to seek the only (and ultimate) solution to their travails by committing suicide.
23 March - 13 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 Sixties: Hairspray

Baltimore 1962: Tracy Turnblad, a chubby Teenager with a zest for life, dreams of dancing on the Corny Collins Show, a popular local TV-show. While her mother, Edna, is afraid that she will be made fun of because of her looks her father, Wilber, encourages her. Tracy makes it onto the show and becomes the idol of many teenagers. She uses her newfound fame to champion the cause of racial integration. A great chaos ensues during the voting for “Miss Teenage Hairspray,” which Tracy initially wins but then disqualified, only to later be reinstated by the Governor of Maryland. At the inauguration ceremonies, Tracy makes her appearance and gets everyone to dance…   
SOLD OUT | 26 May 2018 | Großer Saal Musiktheater More

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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