2006 Mozart Year in Vienna/Austria !
Mozart`s birthday will be celebrated all over the city with
music, films, and several other, sometimes surprising themes.
You will find five special themes all over Vienna. Mozart
Friends and Enemies Mozart Viennese and Cosmopolitan Mozart Art
and Love Mozart Life and Death Mozart Yesterday and Today
Each of these special Mozart Themes contains four different
events and a special children's programme. The events, covers
orchestral concerts, chamber music, Songs and aria, readings,
cabaret, cinema, New Music, and sacred music. There will be a
wide range of cultural performers . The most important concert
halls and theatres will host favourite performers, international
stars, and young talents.
Most of the famous performers are well known also outside the
borders of Austria and are not only local cultural celebrities.
In addition to this attractive cultural programme for everyone,
other highlights will be offered in a large marquee on the
Stephansplatz. Finally, the "Mozart Tourists" will regroup in
the early evening at a large sound installation on
Maria-Theresien-Platz.
Choose your events and you will wander from theatre to theatre
through the wintry streets of Vienna and experience a range of
new encounters with Mozart.
Free admission to the Sound Fusions. Each event ends in the
evening with a Sound Fusion on Maria-Theresien-Platz between the
Museum of Art History and the Museum of Natural History. Help
yourself to a cup of hot punch and enjoy a new look at Mozart's
music.