In the midst of the Grande Terreur, the community is divided between the prioress Madame Lidoine, who urges humility, and the novice mistress Mère Marie, who preaches martyrdom for the faith. The latter prevails, and before the Revolutionary Guards ban the order, the sisters take their vows - except for the absent prioress and Blanche, who cannot withstand the pressure and flees. When the Camelites, condemned to death for counter-revolutionary conspiracy, go to the scaffold, Blanche joins the condemned.

Dialogues des Carmélites

Vienna State Opera

Her father hopes that she will be cured by the famous physician Ibn-Hakia - only when she can see will Iolanta meet her fiancé Robert of Burgundy. But things turn out differently: Robert wants to break off the engagement because he loves another princess. His companion and friend Vaudemont, on the other hand, falls in love with Iolanta at first sight and she returns his love. Love becomes the key to treatment, the cure succeeds and Iolanta learns to see.

Iolanta

The dwarf Alberich, ridiculed and rejected by the three Rhinemaidens, steals the Rhinegold,curses love and uses the gold to forge a ring that bestows great power. From then on, everyone lusts after it, but it brings death and destruction, laden with a curse.

Das Rheingold

Il tabarro is a gloomy marital drama set in the milieu of Parisian boatmen on the Seine: Grief for their deceased child stands between the couple Michele and Giorgetta, Giorgetta's affair with the worker Luigi ends in tragedy.

Simonas Strazdas

Events

Upcoming events

May 19 - Jun 6, 2026

Das Rheingold · Wiener Staatsoper

21 - 30 Jun, 2026

Il Trittico · Wiener Staatsoper

Past events

20 - 29 Nov, 2025

Dialogues des Carmélites · Wiener Staatsoper

6 - 16 Sep, 2025

Iolanta · Wiener Staatsoper

Future and recently performed repertoire

Amantio di Nicolao, Notar in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini

Wiener Staatsoper

Bertrand in Iolanta by Tchaikovsky

Wiener Staatsoper

Fasolt in Das Rheingold by Wagner

Wiener Staatsoper

Second Commissioner in Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc

Wiener Staatsoper

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