KlangBogen Wien
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KlangBogen Wien is an annual festival offering a month of opera productions and classical concerts at different venues in the city of Vienna. There is a range from early to contemporary operas, and from medieval chamber music to experimental 21st century compositions. In prior years the festival has included performances of Don Quixote, La bohème
and Dialogues des Carmélites
at Theater an der Wien
, the new opera house in the city. The festivities conclude with a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Wiener Musikverein's Golden Hall.
La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
and Dialogues des Carmélites
Dialogues of the Carmelites
Dialogues of the Carmelites , is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. In 1953, M. Valcarenghi approached Poulenc to commission a ballet for La Scala in Milan; when Poulenc found the proposed subject uninspiring, Valcarenghi suggested instead a screenplay by Georges Bernanos, based on the...
at Theater an der Wien
Theater an der Wien
The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...
, the new opera house in the city. The festivities conclude with a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Wiener Musikverein's Golden Hall.