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8 unusual facts about Burgtheater


Achim Benning

Starting in 1971, he began to work as a director, enabling him to become a director at the Viennese Burgtheater.

Ellen Preis

After retiring she remained active as Professor Emeritus of the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst (University for Music and Performing Arts) in Vienna, and coaching the Openstudio of the Vienna Staatsoper and the Burgtheater, working together with directors, singers, and actors, and helping ensure that fencing performed in plays was properly done.

Karin Beier

The following year she directed productions at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Munich Kammerspiele, and the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Michael Laub

The latest such venue to have solicited a Portrait Series is Vienna’s Burgtheater.

He opened 2010 with the highly personal, original composition Death, Dance and some Talk in Berlin (February), followed by Portrait Series Istanbul (April–May), Portrait Series Rotterdam (September), and working on the Burgporträts at the Burgtheater, Vienna.

Sebastian Fuchsberger

As a trombonist, he has performed in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Klangforum Wien, the Camerata Academica Salzburg, the Wiener Taschenoper, the Janus Ensemble, Mund.Art, the Burgtheater, and bands such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, Max Nagel and the Alegre Correa Group.

As a tenor and "voice artist", he has worked with the Arnold Schönberg Choir and the choir of the Vienna State Opera, as a soloist in the Burgtheater, with the Inn District Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the bands Mnozil Brass, Global Kryner, Pro Brass, Alegre Correa, and Gansch & Roses.

Trixi Schuba

Born in Vienna, Schuba's passion for figure skating began as a young child in 1955 when she happened to see an American competition on the television bought by her parents to watch performances of the Vienna State Opera and the Burgtheater.


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Der Rauchfangkehrer

Commissioned by Emperor Joseph II for his German company, it was first performed on 30 April 1781 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Ein Sportstück

The premiere took place on 23 January 1998 at the Burgtheater in Vienna under the auspices of the German director Einar Schleef.

Fernando Scarpa

In 1999, the acclaimed European Oscar-nominated actor and director Klaus Maria Brandauer appointed Scarpa as Personal Assistant to the prestigious Burgtheater in Vienna.

Franca Squarciapino

She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others.

Giovanni Punto

They premièred the work on 18 April 1800 at the Burgtheater and the following month the pair played the work again in Pest, Hungary (it was here that the critic commented "who is this Beethoven?...").

Giuseppe Zevola

In 2005 Zevola was the chief assistant to Hermann Nitsch in his 122nd Aktion al Burgtheater of Vienna, thus celebrating their more than thirty-year intellectual and artistic friendship.

Luise Neumann

At the age of 16 she made her debut in a performance of the "Deutschen Hausfrau" in Karlsruhe and in 1839 she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna, which she was a member of until 1856.

Old Times

Peter Hall also directed the Broadway première, which opened at the Billy Rose Theater in New York on November 16, 1971, starring Robert Shaw, Rosemary Harris and Mary Ure; and a year later, the German language premiére of the play at the Burgtheater in Vienna, with Maximilian Schell, Erika Pluhar and Anna-Marie Duringer.


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