Vienna State Opera

Nearly 90% are Shanghai premieres, while 13 productions will be shown exclusively in Shanghai.

Meantime, the newly completed Shanghai Grand Opera House has officially opened.

Its inaugural concert brought together an outstanding lineup of artists for a celebration of opera, spanning classical and contemporary repertoire.

Chief Executive Alex Beard of the UK's Royal Ballet and Opera shares his outlook on future cooperation.

I think this is the perfect set of auditoria and spaces in which to take that collaboration to the very next level.

Whether that's coming together in co-productions or sharing skills and expertise and indeed perspectives about the future of the Opera House.

Bogdan Roscic is the director of the Vienna State Opera.

In every city, the theatres, the opera houses need to figure out how to draw in a new audience.

both in concert and at the opera in Vienna.

I saw him do Rosenkavalier at the Wiener Staatsoper.

It was really incredible.

So lucky.

There's, like, this pleading quality to the way she sings, where everything, e- e- every statement that she has, like, it has the most, I don't wanna say manipulative, but it, it really, like, tugs at the emotional heartstrings in a very affecting way.

So as she's growing her repertoire in 1970, she becomes a member of the Vienna State Opera, and there she appeared in, um, a number of very iconic roles for her, Pamina, Susanna, um, Mimi, Violetta, and Tatyana.

Before we move on to Tatyana, I wanna play a clip from the, uh, the aria disc that she made toward the end of the '70s with Sir John Pritchard, uh, to hear an excerpt of her Mozart singing and, and get a Put, put some sound to the descriptions of her as a singer that we've talked to about so far.

This is Ach ich fühl's.

Having said that, great stunts do not automatically equal greatness, and despite its brilliant pacing and fun, the area where Fallout falls out is in suspense.

There isn't anything here as suspenseful as the Vienna Opera House or the Moroccan digital vault set pieces of Rogue Nation.

And again, let's not even get started on Elsa in those scenes.

Scott knows what I'm talking about.

Um, there's two versions of it, I own both.

Uh, one off a 2011 studio album, and one off a 2013 acoustic live album recorded at the Vienna Opera House.

Oh, do I own that as well?

Uh, you probably do.

It is greatly appreciated.

First up, though, on this date in 1897, following a very successful stint as a chapel master, Emperor Franz Joseph I officially appointed 37-year-old composer Gustav Mahler to become the director of the Vienna Court Opera.

His tenure became the most productive era of his career, during which he actually reformed the operatic production and performance systems in Vienna.

In 1935, popular big band leader Mr. Ozzy Nelson married his orchestra's star vocalist, Harriet Hilliard, in a home ceremony in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Yes, Karloff.

He recorded his version in 1957 with Mario Rossi conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.

Right.

And his approach completely redefines the emotional stakes of the piece.

Elegant means stylish, beautiful, and a little formal.

When I think about Vienna, I think about Schönbrunn Palace, St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Hofburg, the Vienna State Opera, and the giant Ferris wheel in the Prater.

I also think about coffee houses, cake, old streets, music, and people walking slowly and enjoying the city.

It sounds calm, classic, and full of history.

Another famous place is the Hofburg.

The Hofburg is one of Vienna's big historic sites, and many visitors want to see it.

And the Vienna State Opera sounds very elegant, too.

Yes, it does.