Opera Chic

Oscar Von Weber: Stefan Ruzowitzky At The Opera

Stefan Ruzowitzky, recent winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for "The Counterfeiters", has been hired by Theater An Der Wien to direct next season's "Der Freischütz".

Aerobics With Partenope (She Has WiFi, Too)

Matthias Rexroth (Armindo) stretches under Christine Schaefer's (Partenope) watchful, distressed eyes in Haendel's "Partenope" @ Vienna's "Theater an der Wien", where the opera runs until March 6.

Below, Patricia Bardon (Rosmira/Eurimene) and Christine Schaefer (Partenope) go online, trying to look up Opera Chic on their crummy laptop.

Both photos by Armin Bardel.

More Rake's Progress Photos Than You Can Shake a Rake At!

Here are a few more images from tonight's la prima of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress @ Vienna's Theater an der Wien.

Too bad there are no previews of the alleged 18+ content from director Martin Kusej. We'll just have to use our ~imaginations~.

Anne Sofie von Otter shows the Wiener Symphoniker what's what with her sultry, divaesque mezzo, Baba the Turk.

In bocca al lupo ragazzi!

♥ ♥ Click on the link below for a whole mess of filthy pics...

Theater an der Wien's "The Rake's Progress" Gets a R-Rating

(Alastair Miles as Nick Shadow & Toby Spence as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress @ Vienna's Theater an der Wien)

English tenor Toby Spence and English bass Alastair Miles are poised for tomorrow's opening night of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in Vienna's Theater an der Wien. The production will be conducted by that hawter than hale, dewy-skinned, man-gawd Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who will sweat through the Martin Kusej production with the Wiener Symphoniker.

Theater an der Wien is promising such a spicy production, that it is carrying a warning for kids younger than eighteen years old, to shield their innocent eyes from an explicit naked brothel scene and some secksay stripping. If things get too hawt, we've got Anne Sofie von Otter playing the bearded wife to extinguish the flames.