![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a story that begins in December of 1857. If a building can be said to tell the story of modern Vienna, then that building is its opera house.Įmperor Franz Josef I (1830-1916), Emperor of Austria King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia and Monarch of the remaining states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, circa 1860 (Along with Mahler, the Vienna Court/State Opera has had some pretty impressive Directors over the years, including Felix Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, and Seiji Ozawa. In the course of that post, we observed that between 18 Mahler was Director and Principal Conductor of what was, and arguably still is, the most prestigious opera house in the world: the Vienna Court/State Opera. Last week’s Music History Mondaypost noted the deaths of both the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz and the Bohemian-born composer Gustav Mahler. ![]() The opening was a gala event: a performance of Wolfgang Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni attended by, among many others, Emperor Franz Josef I and his bride, the Empress Elizabeth of Austria (know to her intimates as Sisi). We mark the opening on – 151 years ago today – of the Vienna Court Opera (or Wiener Hofoper), which has been known since 1921 as the Vienna State Opera (or Wiener Staatsoper). ![]()
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