The darling music venue of the city is, of course, the Vienna State Opera House in the 1st District.
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The musical director of the Vienna State Opera was treated in hospital after collapsing with back pain while conducting a Wagner opera on Sunday.
In 1982, he became artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera and in 1993 he took the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra, aged 70.
Vienna State Opera house - known as the Wiener Staatsoper - is one of the busiest opera houses in the world, producing 50 to 60 operas a year in approximately 200 performances.
He appears regularly at the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals and is in constant demand by the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera.
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Its biggest coup of the coming season, the European premiere of a new work from the world-renowned La La La Human Steps dance company, will be performed on the State Opera stage.
Since leaving the School of American Ballet in 2009, Kostritzky divides her time between the United States and Russia, where she's a guest teacher and coach for Siberia's Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Costello, a Philadelphia native and winner of the 2009 Richard Tucker Award, was called in on short notice and sang on opening night to enthusiastic ovations, making his Vienna State Opera debut alongside soprano Krassimira Stoyanova as Mimi.
There will be no increase in state funding for opera, not while there is no increase for hospitals.
In financially straitened times, why should the state continue to contribute toward opera?
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Over the past decade, the Royal Opera's state subsidy has been cut by more than 30%, while private funding has also shrunk.
The opera buffa attempt to sell state-controlled Alitalia (other-otc: ALAIF - news - people ) is just one example.
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