The Volksoper Wien has announced its 2024-25 season.

Premieres 

Bizet’s “Carmen” will directed by Lotte de Beer and star Katia Ledoux, Wallis Giunta, Annelie Sophie Müller, Nikolai Schukoff, Jason Kim, Josef Wagner, Daniel Schmutzhard, Iulia Maria Dan, and Hedwig Ritter. Ben Glassberg, Alexander Joel, and Tobias Wögerer.

Performance Dates: Sept. 21, 2024-May 28, 2025

Ella Milch-Sheriff’s “Alma” will star Annette Dasch, Annelie Sophie Müller, Lauren Urquhart, Christopher Ainslie, Hila Baggio, Timothy Fallon, Florian Hurler, Martin Winkler, and Josef Wagner. Omer Meir Wellber and Keren Kagarlitsky conduct the production by Anke Rauthmann.

Performance Dates: Oct. 26-Nov. 9, 2024

“Der Krieg der Knöpfe” will star Peter Lesiak, Julia Koci, Nicolaus Hagg, Florian Carove, and Helmut Stippich. Johanna Arrouas directs the new production.

Performance Dates: Nov. 10, 2024-April 24, 2025

“Im weißen Rössl” will be conducted by Michael Brandstätter and Roger Diaz-Cajamarca. The new production by Jan Philipp Gloger will star Jakob Semotan, Ursula Pfitzner, Annette Dasch, Götz Schubert, David Kerber, Oliver Liebl, Harald Schmidt, Juliette Khalil, Robert Palfrader, and Christoph Stocker.

Performance Dates: Dec. 7, 2024-June 29, 2025

Mozart and Ullmann’s double bill “Kaiser Requiem” will star Joseg Wagner, Daniel Schmutzhard, Seiyoung Kim, Junho You, Wallis Giunta, and Rebecca Nelsen. Omer Meir Wellber and Keren Kagarlitsky alternate at the podium while Andreas Heise directs.

Performance Dates: Jan. 25-March 5, 2025

Kálmán’s “Die Csárdásfürstin” will be conducted by Tobias Wögerer and Alexander Joel and directed by Johannes Erath. The production will star  Daniel Schmutzhard, Juliette Khalil, Lukas Watzl, Jakob Semotan, Florian Carove, Marco Di Sapia, Karl-Michael Ebner, Daniel Ohlenschläger, Kurt Schreibmayer, Annette Dasch, David Kerber, and Ursula Pfitzner.

Performance Dates: March 8-May 3, 2025

Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s “Follies” will be conducted by Ben Glassberg and directed by Martin G. Berger. The cast will include Ruth Brauer-Kvam, Drew Sarich, Bettina Mönch, Peter Lesiak, Juliette Khalil, Oliver Liebl, Julia Koci, Sona MacDonald, Martina Dorak, Ulrike Steinsky, Alexandra Flood, and Aaron-Casey Gould.

Performance Dates: April 12-May 27, 2025

“Nurejews Hund” will star Florian Carove, Jakob Semotan, Ursula Pfitzner, and Mila Schmidt. Keren Kagarlitsky conducts the production by Florian Hurler.

Performance Dates: April 27-June 13, 2025

Jonathan Dove’s “Das verzauberte Schwein” will be conducted by Michael Papadopoulos and will star Mira Alkhovik, Hannah Fheodoroff, Camila Aguilera, Seiyoung Kim, Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha, and Smelo Mahlangu.

Performance Date: May 4, 2025

Ben Glassberg and Michael Papadopoulos conduct Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in a production by Lotte de Beer. The production will star Daniel Schmutzhard, Michael Arivony, Matilda Sterby, Theresa Dax, Lauren Urquhart, Annelie Sophie Müller, Pablo Santa Cruz, and Sofia Vinnik.

Performance Dates: May 24-June 28, 2025

“Kreationen” is the final new production.

Performance Dates: June 13-30, 2025

Repertoire

“Die Fledermaus” is set to be conducted by Alexander Joel and Alfred Eschwé and will star Carsten Süss, Daniel Schmutzhard, Karl-Michael Ebner, Annette Dasch, Ulrike Steinsky, Hedwig Ritter, Theresa Dax, Lauren Urquhart, Jaye Simmons, Ben Connor, Michael Arivony, Szymon Komasa,  Alexandre Beuchat, and Robert Bartneck.

Performance Dates: Sept. 1, 2024-June 12, 2025

Keren Kagarlitsky conducts “The Sound of Music” which will star Juliette Khalil, Axel Herrig, Peter Lesiak, Sarah Weidinger, Vanessa Zips, Ulrike Steinsky, Brigid Steinberger, and Jakob Semotan.

Performance Dates: Sept. 3, 2024-June 19, 2025

Ben Glassberg and Felix Hornbachner conduct Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Stefan Cerny, Alexander Fritze, Aaron Pendleton, Gloria Rehm, Alexandra Flood, David Kerber, Junho You, Timothy Fallon, Lauren Urquhart, Rebecca Nelsen, Theresa Dax, Daniel Schmutzhard, Jakob Semotan, and  Michael Arivony.

Performance Dates: Sept. 6, 2024-Jan. 23, 2025

“Tick Tick Boom” will be performed with Jakob Semotan, Juliette Khalil, Oliver Liebl, and Sophia Giorgi. Christian Frank conducts.

Performance Dates: Sept. 10, 2024-March 9, 2025

Ben Glassberg, Tess Jackson, and Tobias Wögerer conduct Bernstein’s “West Side Story” with Anton Zetterholm, Christof Messner, Juliette Khalil, Jaye Simmons, Myrthes Monteiro, Oliver Liebl, Peter Lesiak, Lionel von Lawrence.

Performance Dates: Sept. 25, 2024-Jan. 11, 2025

Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” will star Anett Fritsch, Rebecca Nelsen, Alexandre Beuchat, Daniel Schmutzhard, Szymon Komasa, Lauren Urquhart, Nadja Mchantaf, Aaron-Casey Gould, and Jakob Semotan. Keren Kagarlitsky and Alexander Joel conduct.

Performance Dates: Oct. 5-Nov. 22, 2024

Lorenz C. Aichner conducts “Anatevka” which will star Dominque Horwitz, Maco di Sapia, Regula Rosin, Theresa Dax, Juliette Khalil, Vanessa Zips, Olvier Liebl, Peter Lesiak, Liam Solbjerg, Daniel Ohlenschläger.

Performance Dates: Nov. 3, 2024-Feb. 23, 2025

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and “Iolanta” will be performed in a double bill. Hedwig Ritter, Natalia Tanasii, Jason Kim, Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha, Andrei Bondarenko, Michael Arivony and Szymon Komasa will star. Keren Kagarlitsky and Alfred Eschwé conduct the works.

Performance Dates: Nov. 10, 2024-Jan. 4, 2025

Keren Kagarlitsky, Ben Glassberg, and Tobias Wögerer lead Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” in time for the holiday season. The opera will see Josef Wagner, Martin Winkler, Ursula Pfitzner, Katia Ledoux, Annelie Sophie Müller, Wallis Giunta, Hedwig Ritter, Johanna Arrouas, Ulrike Steinsky, and Karl-Michael Ebner.

Performance Dates: Dec. 12, 2024-Jan. 6, 2025

Carsten Süss, Stanisław Napierała, Aaron-Casey Gould, Paul Schweinster, Christoph Stocker,  Alexandra Flood, and Jaye Simmons star in Offenbach’s “Die Reise zum Mond.” Alfred Eschwé  and Roger Diaz Cajamarca conduct. 

Performance Dates: Dec. 14, 2024-Jan. 31, 2025

Adama Benzwi conducts “Ein bisschen trallalala” with Ruth Brauer-Kvam, and Robert Palfrader.”

Performance Dates: Jan. 7-May 13, 2025

Alexander Joel and Tobias Wögerer conduct Puccini’s “La Rondine.” The opera will star Verity Wingate, Johanna Arrouas, Rebecca Nelsen, David Junghoon Kim, David Kerber, Timothy Fallon, Robert Bartneck, and Andrei Bondarenko.

Performance Dates: Feb. 1-March 10, 2025

Timothy Fallon, Robert Bartneck, Marco di Sapia, Karl-Michael Ebner, and Hedwig Ritter star in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in der Unterwelt” with Michael Papadopoulos and Alexander Joel.

Performance Dates: Feb. 6-April 9, 2025

Lorenz C. Aichner conducts “Les Cage aux Folles” with Drew Sarich, Victor Gernot, Jurriaan Bles, Oliver Liebl, and Theresa Dax.

Performance Dates: Feb. 9-April 6, 2025

Ben Glassberg and Thomas Leo Cadenbach conduct Nicolai’s “Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor.” Katia Ledoux, Jasmin White, Hedwig Ritter, Martin Winkler, Alexander Fritze, Aaron Pendleton, Andrei Bondarenko, Lauren Urquhart, Theresa Dax, and Junho You.

Performance Dates: March 13-April 20, 2025

Keren Kagarlitsky conducts “Lass uns die Welt vergessen Volksoper 1938” with Marco di Sapia, Andres Patton, Florian Carove, Lukas Watzl, Carsten Süss, Jakob Semotan, Szymon Komasa, Gerhard Ernst, Johanna Arrouas, Ben Connor, Karl-Michael Ebner, Theresa Dax, Sofia Vinnik, Julia Koci, and Nicolaus Hagg.

Performance Dates: April 19 – June 9, 2025