Vienna Opera & Operetta

Don Pasquale, Opera by G. Donizetti
Vienna
Considered by many to be the last great opera buffa, Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale is the perfect farce, as popular today as when it was first performed in the mid-nineteenth century.
Don Pasquale, a cantankerous but ...
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 ...
La Traviata, Opera by G. Verdi
Vienna
For a composer who was concerned that his work should safeguard his family’s prosperity, Giuseppe Verdi’s readiness to lock horns with the censors of his day is at first sight something of a conundrum. But Verdi could not ...