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Music Festivals Coffee Houses
restored Brahms-Saal) and
the concert halls of the Seasonal events in Vienna and Heurige
Konzerthaus. Performances are include the Vienna Festival The Viennese coffee house is
also held in many other halls and in May and June, and Wien a throwback to a more leisured
historic palaces around Vienna. Modern, a festival of post-1945 age, serving coffee in a
The New Year’s Concert is and contemporary classical bewildering range of styles and
televised live from the Grosser music, with an emphasis on allowing patrons to sit and read
Musikvereinsaal in the Musik- the avant-garde. newspapers at their leisure. The
verein every year. You can apply Inaugurated in 1920, the Heuriger is a uniquely Austrian
for tickets by writing direct to Salzburg Festival of opera, establishment. Its literal
the Wiener Philharmoniker or drama, and music claims to meaning is “this year’s,” and it
online. Applications must be be the largest of its kind in the refers both to the youngest
received on January 2 (not world. It is held annually in late available local wine and to
before, not after) for the next July and August, attracting the venues that sell it. The most
year’s concert. world’s finest conductors, famous are in villages to the
The city supports two soloists, and opera and theater north and west of Vienna, such
great orchestras, the Wiener companies. The spectacular as Heiligenstadt and Grinzing.
Philharmoniker and the Wiener venues include the A sign reading Eigenbau means
Symphoniker. There are also a Felsenreitschule, the riding that the wine is from the
number of chamber music school of the prince- owner’s vineyards.
ensembles and church music is archbishops of Salzburg. There
often of concert quality. The is always a strong emphasis Winter Sports
world-famous Vienna Boys’ on Mozart, the city’s most
Choir can be heard during mass famous son, but the festival Austria’s facilities for winter
at the Burgkapelle in the has also won acclaim for its sports are second only to
Hofburg complex (see p560) contemporary music and Switzerland’s. Ski resorts vary
every Sunday and religious innovative productions of from fashionable Kitzbühel and
holiday at 9:15am except from classic and modern drama. St. Anton to small family resorts
July to about mid-September Another smaller festival is with less demanding slopes.
(the box office is open the the Haydn Festspiele, held Package tours are available
Friday before). You can also hear at the magnificent Schloss from many countries around
them at the Konzerthaus every Esterházy in Eisenstadt (see the world. Information on
Friday at 3:30pm in May, June, p566). The festival itself is in 800 resorts can be found on
September, and October. Tickets September, but Haydn concerts the Austria Tourism website,
are available from hotel porters are given in the palace along with snow reports and
and from Reisebüro Mondial. throughout the summer. other useful information.
DIRECTORY
Food and Drink Schloss Augarten Opera and Musikverein
Obere Augartenstrasse 1, Operetta Bösendorferstrasse 12,
Altmann & Kühne Vienna. Tel 01-2112 4200. Vienna. Tel 01-505 8190.
Graben 30, Vienna. Oper Klosterneuburg
Tel 01-533 0927. Booking Tickets Kaiserhof Stift, Wiener
Meinl am Graben Bundestheater- Klosterneuburg. Philharmoniker
Graben 19, Vienna. kassen Tel 02243-444 424. Bösendorferstrasse 12,
Tel 01-532 3334. Opernring 2, Vienna. Theater an der Wien Vienna. Tel 01-505 8190.
Zum Schwarzen Tel 01-51444 7810. Linke Wienzeile 6, Music Festivals
Kameel Reisebüro Mondial Vienna.
Bognergasse 5, Vienna. Operngasse 20B, Vienna. Tel 01-588 301 010. Haydn Festspiele
Tel 01-533 8125. Tel 01-588 040. Wiener Kammeroper Schloss Esterházy,
Luxury Goods Theater Fleischmarkt 24, Vienna. A-7000 Eisenstadt.
Tel 01-588 300.
Tel 02682-618 66.
Maria Stransky Raimund Theater Wiener Volksoper
Hofburg Passage 2, Wallgasse 18, Vienna. Währinger Strasse 78, Salzburg Festival
Vienna. Tel 01-533 6098. Tel 01-58885. Vienna. Hofstallgasse 1, Postfach
Ostovics Ronacher Tel 01-514 4430. 140, A-5100 Salzburg.
Tel 0662-804 5579.
Stephansplatz 9, Vienna. Seilerstätte 9, Vienna.
Tel 01-533 1411. Tel 01-58885. Classical Music
Winter Sports
Petit Point Volkstheater Konzerthaus
Kärntner Strasse 16, Neustiftgasse 1, Vienna. Lothringerstrasse 20, Austria Tourism
Vienna. Tel 01-512 4886. Tel 01-521 110. Vienna. Tel 01-242 002. ∑ austria.info

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