History
THE CHRONICLE OF A SUCCESS:
The success of this policy was rewarded in 1999 when the Vienna Music Workshop was invited to co-produce "Der Zerrissene" with the Vienna State Opera and Víenna Volksoper. Inga Levant's and Nigel Lowery's production of Param Vir's double bill was further confirmation of the Vienna Music Workshop's ability to attract top international talent. In the next few years the Vienna Music Workshop intends to contribute to the development of music theatre in Austria through a closer co-operation with young Austrian authors and composers.
The success of this policy was rewarded in 1999 when the Vienna Music Workshop was invited to co-produce "Der Zerrissene" with the Vienna State Opera and Víenna Volksoper. Inga Levant's and Nigel Lowery's production of Param Vir's double bill was further confirmation of the Vienna Music Workshop's ability to attract top international talent. In the next few years the Vienna Music Workshop intends to contribute to the development of music theatre in Austria through a closer co-operation with young Austrian authors and composers.
As a "workshop" we want to be a synonym for a joint working process aimed at producing new music theatre works for the audience of our time. Opera for us is an all-embracing experience that should seek to awaken and liberate the audience's emotions and imaginaton. The Vienna Music Workshop has no theatre of its own, preferring to choose a venue appropriate to the needs of each individual work. Harnessing the architectural energy of the chosen arena and combining it with a psychologically motivated lighting design is an essential feature of our production style. Our repertoire ranges from the late romantic, Viennese sound of Gottfried von Einem to the modernism of Philip Glass and his young indian-born colleague Param Vir.
