Volksoper Wien
The Volksoper was built in barely ten months. Architects Alexander Graf and Franz von Krauß designed it for the fiftieth anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's reign, and it opened as the Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater on 14 December 1898, without the emperor, still in mourning for the murdered Empress Elisabeth. Planned as a house for spoken drama, it was bankrupt within five years. Rainer Simons took over in 1903 and put opera and operetta on the bill. Under him Vienna heard its first Tosca in 1907 and its first Salome in 1910, conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky, while Maria Jeritza and Richard Tauber began careers on this stage.
In 1945 the house took on a second role: with the Staatsoper in ruins, the state company reopened at the Volksoper on 1 May with Le nozze di Figaro and stayed for a decade. Today it is Vienna's second opera house, playing operetta, opera, musicals and dance. Die Zauberflöte belongs to the core repertoire, currently in Henry Mason's staging from October 2020, a fairy-tale evening full of Rebekah Wild's animal puppets and a first opera for many Viennese families.
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Die Zauberflöte – Trailer | Volksoper Wien
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