Wiener Staatsoper Cancels Opera Ball Due to COVID-19 Ongoing Worries

(Credit: © Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced the cancellation of its traditional Opera Ball in 2022. The ball was canceled following a decision by the State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer. In a statement, the opera company’s director, Bogdan Roščić, noted that the current wave of COVID-19, and particularly the Omicron variant, has {…}

Feb 18, 2017

Speranza Scapucci Replaces Semyon Bychov At The Vienna Opera Ball

Speranza Scapucci will conduct the Vienna Opera Ball on Feb. 23. The Italian conductor will fill in for the originally scheduled Semyon Bychkov, who is ill. The Italian conductor Scappucci gave her acclaimed debut to the Viennese Staatsoper last autumn and had been a solokorrepetitor at the Vienna State Opera for several years before she started her international career as a conductor. The {…}