Dress Rehearsal for Vienna Opera Ball with Surprise Guest President Van der Bellen
"It was important for the Federal President and Doris Schmidbauer to be there this time because they wanted to meet visitors and talk to people who work at the opera for the ball. Both are usually difficult to do on the ball evening itself. Hence the visit today," according to a statement. Already in 2019, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen had personally taken a look at the preparations for the Vienna Opera Ball on site.
Vienna Opera Ball in Honor of the 200th Birthday of Johann Strauss
The dress rehearsal then proved that the Opera Ball and Johann Strauss are naturally a successful combination. On the occasion of the 200th birthday of the "Waltz King," State Opera Director Bogdan Roščic this year placed almost the entire artistic opening of the Opera Ball on Thursday under the sign of the popular composer - and was able to already delight the dress rehearsal audience with it. After the entry of the opening committee, which for the first time also includes a homosexual couple, the State Opera Ballet set the tone for the evening with Johann Strauss's "Kaiserwalzer." In a mood typical of Vienna "between heaven-high rejoicing and to death depressed," 20 dancers of the ensemble floated across the parquet in a choreography by Martin Schläpfer - for the first time with young talent from the in-house ballet school.
Joyful Latin-Lover Atmosphere at Vienna Opera Ball
It continued seamlessly with Johann Strauss's "Frühlingsstimmenwalzer." Here it was up to the young star soprano Nadine Sierra to spread the desired cheerfulness and freshness among the audience, for which the hit is so famous. Afterwards, Strauss had to briefly make way for the Latin-Lover feeling of 19th-century Madrid: And who could spread this better than tenor Juan Diego Flórez, who, with the aria "Bella Enamorada" from "El último romántico," made the guests of the dress rehearsal melt as intended. It then continued to Venice, again in the now familiar company of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss. With the famous operetta melody "Alle maskiert" from "Eine Nacht in Venedig," Sierra, Maria Nazarova, Flórez, and Daniel Jenz also revealed the secret motto of the Opera Ball: "Where fun and where madness and pleasure reign."
Dress Rehearsal for Vienna Opera Ball Concludes with "Blue Danube Waltz"
Maria Angelini-Santner and Christoph Santner from the Santner Dance School also had Johann Strauss as a guideline for the choreography for the 144 couples of the young ladies' and young gentlemen's committee. They decided on a revival of the "Violetta-Polka," a work that was a huge hit during Strauss's lifetime but then more and more disappeared into obscurity. For the last performance of the evening, the opera did not have to think much, as it always comes from the pen of Johann Strauss: the "Blue Danube Waltz," the unofficial national anthem of Austria.
(APA/Red)
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