Vienna State Opera
One of the world's oldest and most prestious opera companies, the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) has been featured frequently on NPR's series "World of Opera."
Concerts
June 27, 2008 One of Verdi's biggest hits, La Traviata has also played a starring role in Hollywood.
May 9, 2008 Mozart's comic farce 'Cosi fan tutte' can leave romantically inclined listeners a little bit queasy.
April 11, 2008 Verdi's compelling tribute to fate, in a controversial production from the Vienna State Opera.
January 4, 2008 A grim tale by Pushkin gets even bleaker in Tchaikovsky's opera, The Queen of Spades.
August 24, 2007 Neil Schicoff stars as the suicidal title character in Werther, from Vienna.
July 13, 2007 Anna Netrebko stars in a brilliant, Salzburg production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
July 6, 2007 Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto stars in Mussorgsky's vivid psycho-drama, Boris Godunov.
April 6, 2007 Soprano Anna Netrebko stars in Masssenet's Manon, from the Vienna State Opera.
More Stories
October 2, 2009 Tchaikovsky felt the story of this opera so deeply that it led him into his own, doomed marriage.
March 27, 2009 Verdi's steamy story of passion among the pious stirred the ire of prudish, 19th-century censors.
