Der Opernball – Volksoper, Vienna

Date: Thursday, 3 December 2026
Time: 11:00
Venue: Volksoper
Address: Währinger Str. 78, 1090 Wien, Austria
City: Vienna
Organisation: Volksoper Wien
Language: German

About this event

In this seventh staging of Richard Heuberger's classic operetta at the Volksoper Wien, director Moritz Franz Beichl keeps the Belle Époque Paris setting while probing the "cracks in the wallpaper" of outwardly perfect bourgeois marriages. Heuberger’s aim to renew the operetta—lighter in touch yet more dramatically musical—comes to the fore. A key visual and thematic thread is the fateful pink domino, an indiscreet motif that runs through the score and story, echoing the characters’ suspicions and flirtations with infidelity.