The Vienna Opera Ball naturally promises plenty to talk about this year as well. Comedian Oliver Pocher and his ex-wife Alessandra Meyer-Wölden will be there together again. Spicy detail: Last year, ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg This was featured in live coverage.

Today, Swarovski unveils its much-anticipated tiara, the annual creation for the Vienna Opera Ball. Blending Austrian ...

There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera. Clearly, it ...

I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything ...

“Who does Crimea belong to?” asked a Ukrainian-language sign held by a protestor outside the Vienna State Opera on a balmy June evening. Moments later, despite a small demonstration that diffident ...

Hollywood star Fran Drescher, known from the cult series “The Nanny”, is coming to the Vienna Opera Ball 2026. Together with ...

A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well known for his stagings of Wagner. By A.J. Goldmann Sophia Loren, Kim ...