The Vienna State Opera at the 2026 Film Festival on Rathausplatz
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It has already become a lovely tradition for the Vienna State Opera to partner with the film festival at Vienna’s Rathausplatz during the summer months. This means that true opera enthusiasts don’t have to go without their opera fix even during the theater’s summer break. On “State Opera Sundays,” we screen selected opera and ballet productions—most featuring top-tier casts—on the big screen. The program is also complemented by occasional screenings of the Children’s Opera Festival on Friday afternoons.
For the first time this year, the film festival will conclude with a livedelayed broadcast of our “Opern-Air” concert from the Burggarten.
Fidelio (2025)
Sunday, July 5, 9:30 p.m.
Ludwig van Beethoven
featuring, among others, Malin Byström, David Butt Philipp, Christopher Maltman, and Attila Mokus, among others
Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
Director: Nikolaus Habjan
La sonnambula (2023)
Sunday, July 12, 9:15 p.m.
Vincenzo Bellini
featuring, among others, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, Roberto Tagliavini, Sziliva Vörös
Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti
Director: Marco Arturo Marelli
Nabucco (2021)
Sunday, July 19, 9:15 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
featuring, among others, Placido Domingo and Anna Pirozzi
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Director: Günther Krämer
The Bartered Bride ( 2025)
Sunday, July 26, 9:15 p.m.
Bedřich Smetana
featuring, among others, Slávka Zámečníková, Peter Kellner, Monika Bohinec, Pavol Breslik
Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Director: Dirk Schmeding
Ballet: Giselle ( 2026)
Sunday, August 2, 9:00 p.m.
Featuring, among others, Laura Fernandez Gromova, António Casalinho, and Alessandro Cavallo
Choreography: Elena Tschernischova
Musical Director: Luciano Di Martino
Carmen (2021)
Sunday, August 9, 9:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Featuring, among others, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala, Vera Lotte Boecker, and Erwin Schrott
Conductor: Andres Orozco-Estrada
Director: Calixto Bieito
The Barber of Seville (2021)
Sunday, August 16, 8:45 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
Featuring, among others, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Juan Diego Flórez, and Etienne Dupuis
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Director: Herbert Fritsch
Faust (2021)
Sunday, August 23, 8:45 p.m.
Charles Gounod
featuring, among others, Nicole Car, Juan Diego Flórez, Etienne Dupuis, and Adam Palka
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Frank Castorf
Der Rosenkavalier (2025)
Sunday, August 30, 8:15 p.m.
Richard Strauss
featuring, among others, Krassimira Stoyanova, Günther Groissböck, and Piotr Beczala
Conductor: Adam Fischer
Director: Otto Schenk
Opern Air
Sunday, September 6, 8:15 p.m.
Live, delayed broadcast from the Burggarten in Vienna
featuring, among others, Asmik Grigorian, Piotr Beczala, Juan Diego Flórez, and Ludovic Tézier
Conductor: Axel Kober
