Volksoper Vienna – Schedule, Program & Tickets

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Tu 19:00
Ballett: The moon wears a white shirt

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Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
The famous chansonnière Sylva is not allowed to marry her noble lover Edwin. His parents arrange for him to be drafted into the army and get him engaged to a countess. The chansonnière suddenly appears at the engagement party
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At the same time, Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters from the impoverished nobleman Falstaff
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© Volksoper Wien GmbH
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.