Recommended in Vienna

Tosca, Opera by G. Puccini
Vienna
Brutal, dramatic, unrelenting: epithets that have all been used to describe Giacomo Puccini’s tremendous historical opera, Tosca. Set in the real Rome of the Napoleonic Wars, its locations still stand today, including the Church ...
Carmen, Opera by G. Bizet
Vienna
Georges Bizet’s Carmen was as radical a departure from the established traditions of opera as any single work in the history of the genre. The moment Bizet’s heroine sings the first few notes of the Habanera, the aria with ...
The Queen of Spades, Opera by P. I. Tchaikovsky
Vienna
An opera in three acts with music by the Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. Votkinsk, Russia, 1840; d. St Petersburg, 1893) and libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the composer’s brother. It is based on the ...