Vienna State Opera
In Vienna State Opera once stood a 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival house that became the first major building on Vienna’s Ringstrasse. Work began in 1861 and the opera house was completed in 1869, after plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll and designs by Josef Hlávka. It was inaugurated as the “Vienna Court Opera” (Wiener Hofoper) in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria—an imperial beginning for a venue that would define the city’s musical life. The building’s name changed after 1921, when it took on its current identity with the establishment of the First Austrian Republic. In 1945 it was destroyed during World War, but the project returned in architectural reconstruction in 1950—and again with further reconstruction in 1990—so the opera house you associate with Vienna Philharmonic and State Ballet is, in a very literal sense, a post-war rebuild. …
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