Festivals, Concerts, Theatres & Event Tickets In Austria

Salzburg Whitsun Baroque Festival 9 - 12 May 2008, Haus für Mozart (Kleines Festspielhaus)

After the last year Whitsun marked the beginning of a new era for the fest, with a 3-year concentrating on the Neapolitan school there are still will future discoveries in the House of Mozart. This year Salzburg’s Whitsun Festival focus on Giovanni Paisiello’s Il matrimonio inaspettato from 1779, which is a typical opera buffa, concerning a boy who wants to marry against his father’s will. The opera is sung in Italian with English and German subtitles 9th and 11th of May.
Other concerts during the weekend include the countertenor Andreas Scholl from Germany to perform Senesino’s arias, with the Accademia Bizantina on Saturday morning. On Saturday evening Thomas Hengelbrock directs the Balthasar-Neumann Choir and Ensemble in seventeenth century Neapolitan church music.
On WhitSunday, there will be a concert of Accordone Ensemble accompanying Guido Morini, Marco Beasley and Pino De Vittorio in street music from the 2 Sicilies in the morning. On the final in the Kollegienkirche, Riccardo Muti conducts Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, performed by Johann Adolph Hasse’s I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore from 1742.

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Outdoor Trophy August 2008 Lingenau, Austria

Outdoor Trophy, carried out in Lingenau is one of the top extreme sport events in Austria. Swarms of rivals battle it out in 4 exhausting disciplines - white water kayaking, paragliding, mountain running and mountain biking.
Lingenau itself offer a perfect backcloth for all the action, providing with paragliding from Hintere Niedere Mountain and kayaking through the rapids at Andelsbuch and Egg. Then they do a cliff start and complete with an Eskimo roll before finishing.
The mountain bikers take a thirty-one kilometers stretch, beginning in Lingenau and going through beautiful scenic spots, including Lecknertal, Hittisau and Rotenberg. The mountain runners complete a fifteen kilometers long race via Ittensberg and Tristenkopf to Hintere Niedere. There at the summit, paragliders get flying to Andelsbuch where they have to perform a target landing. Some interesting supporting events for the public feature parachuting & paragliding stunts, various bike shows, tower climbing, etc. Of course, during the night there are many parties featuring popular bands and DJs across the local bars.

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Austrian Festivals for Chorals & Orchestrals

Spring Music Festival Vienna with the Vienna Boys' Choir
Work & perform with the world-famous Vienna Boys' Choir in the "Golden Hall" of the Wiener Musikverein
Artistic Festival Director - Gerald Wirth (Artistic Director of the Wien Boys' Choir)
2008: February 28th/29th
The Spring Music Festival Wien is a distinctive, impressive and exciting annual event for choirs and orchestras with great standards. The programme for the Festivals has a alike structure each year - all invited choirs and orchestras in the Festival will experience a unique workshop and rehearsal with the Artistic Director of the Boys' Choir.
During this workshop you will prepare your choir or orchestra for the jointly performance with all choirs and orchestras together with the Vienna Boys' Choir, as well as the everyone’s separate performance at the Gala Concert in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. The scores of the joint music pieces will be sent to all the choirs and orchestras as soon as their partake is confirmed.
The Festival also features a professional video-recording of the performances in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein and professional artistic development and administration under the services of Gerald Wirth as Artistic Director of the Festival.

World Choral Festival Vienna & Salzburg with the Vienna Boys' Choir
Work and perform with the world-renowned Vienna Boys' Choir in Wien, in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein and in Salzburg in the Grand Hall of the Mozarteum.
Artistic Fest Director - Martin Schebesta
2008: May 22nd/23rd
The annual World Choral Festivals Vienna & Salzburg allows eminent choirs and/or orchestras from world-wide to perform with own choir under your direction in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein and in Salzburg in the Grand Hall of the Mozarteum.

International Youth and Music Fest and Competition – “Youth&Music in Wien” for Youth, choirs, bands, orchestras and performing arts ensembles.
2008: July 12th-15th
2009: July 11th-14th
2010: July 10th-13th
The events of this Festival, including the opening ceremony, opening party, competitors and jury meeting, farewell party as well, and of course the partaking musicians will experience a unique encounter with other world-wide talented musicians. Each ensemble will compete or optional participate out of the competition in Vienna’s renowned Congress Centre, the ACV-Austria Centre, in their selected category. Additionally, each partaking ensemble will present its musical heritage in concerts, which will take place in various public and in historic squares, concert halls, parks, churches and cathedrals and other different sites throughout Wien and nearby villages and towns of Austria. The culmination of the fest is of course the awarding with the Prize Winners’ Matinee and the Closing Ceremony.

Music Academy Pielachtal
Master Classes for Vocal Music with Gerald Wirth

2008:
03.08. - 09.08.2008
10.08. - 16.08.2008 *
17.08. - 23.08.2008
24.08. - 30.08.2008

2009:
02.08. - 08.08.2009
09.08. - 15.08.2009 *
16.08. - 22.08.2009
23.08. - 29.08.2009
* During this period special Workshops for Choral Conductors and individual Singers will take place as well.

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Spanish Riding School Schedule Season 2008

2008 Gala Performances in the Riding Hall at the Hofburg Palace/Josefsplatz will be carried out on:

Sunday in February: 24. Sunday's performances start at 11:00am
Sundays in March: 2., 9., 16., 23., 30. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in March: 8., 15., 22., 29. from 11:00 am
Sundays in April: 6., 13., 20., 27. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in April: 5., 19. from 11:00 am
Friday in April: 11. Friday's performances start at 7:00 pm
Sundays in May: 4., 11., 18., 25. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in May: 10., 17. Saturday's from 11:00 am
Fridays in May: 2., 23. Friday's from 7:00 pm
Sundays in June: 1., 8., 15., 22., 29. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in June: 7., 21. Saturday's from 11:00 am
Fridays in June: 13., 27. Friday's from 7:00 pm

There will be no any performances carried out in July 2008. Below are the performances after July till the end of the year:

Sunday in August: 31. from 11:00 am
Sundays in September: 7., 14., 21., 28. from 11:00 am
Saturday in September: 27. from 11:00 am
Fridays in September: 5.,19. Friday's from 7:00 pm
Sundays in October: 5., 12., 19., 26. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in October: 11., 18. Saturday's from 11:00 am
Fridays in October: 24., 31. Friday's performance start at 7:00 pm
Sundays in November: 2., 9., 16., 23., 30. from 11:00 am
Fridays in November: 7., 14., 21., 28. from 7:00 pm
Sundays in December: 7., 14., 21., 28. from 11:00 am
Saturdays in December: 6., 13., 20. from 11:00 am
Tuesday in December: 30. Tuesday's performances start at 7:00 pm

Training with music (daily except Sunday and Monday - from February 5th 2008 until the end of the year 2008, and except during the summer: July 1st until August 18th 2008) or Light Training of the Spanish Riding School 2008 /between November 13th and December. 7th/ and guided tours through stables and halls afterwards.

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