Volksoper [ENA] The Volksoper’s new production of Ralph Benatzky’s Im weißen Rössl emerges as a spirited and knowingly ironic love letter to the operetta tradition, refreshed with a sharp contemporary intelligence rather than smothered in tourist-kitsch nostalgia. Director Jan Philipp Gloger approaches this operetta classic as both joyous entertainment and a subtle sociological study of tourism, desire, and national self-mythologizing.   [Full story...]

Burgtheater [ENA] Milo Rau’s long‑awaited staging of Elfriede Jelinek’s BURGTHEATER for the Burgtheater and Wiener Festwochen is nothing less than a theatrical event of the first order: audacious in concept, razor‑sharp in execution, and uncannily precise in its diagnosis of Austria’s cultural and political self‑image. More than four decades after Jelinek predicted that a Viennese production could become “the greatest theatre scandal"   [Full story...]