After a late-summer heat wave, it’s suddenly fall. And what a fall it is! September is proving more action-packed than ever this year, so let’s get right to it…rejoice, dear reader: it’s your Austrian Music Highlights for September. Jazz and everything after … read more »
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Austrian Music Theatre Day 2024
On September 27 and 28, this year’s Austrian Music Theatre Day will consider questions of ecology and sustainability – both in terms of theatre production and in the works to be presented. Austrian Music Theatre Day, part of the Musiktheatertage Wien, is … read more »
Open Call: Austrian Music Theatre Day 2024
Do you live in Austria and make music theatre? If so, your best chance to get your work seen and mix it up with other people in your branch is coming around again: the Austrian Music Theatre Day, happening on September 27 … read more »
Call for Submissions: Musiktheatertage Wien Residencies
The Musiktheatertage Wien, an internationally renowned contemporary music theater festival, hereby invites interested artists and collectives to take part in a residency in June and September 2024. The residencies are part of the EU-sponsored project “What’s Next?”, focusing on multidisciplinary reflection on … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights: September 2023
September! That peculiar month where, with a little effort, you can pretend it’s still August. The evenings are darker, but people are still sitting outside the cafés without the benefit of heat lamps or slightly ratty-looking fleece blankets. And Austrian music rolls … read more »
musiktheatertage VIENNA 2022: WHAT WORLD DO WE WANT?
This year’s MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN (MUSIC THEATRE DAYS VIENNA) will take place from 14-24 September 2022! The international festival returns with a fresh design, a new website and an exciting mix of contemporary productions, co-productions and guest performances. A CONTEMPORARY MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVAL Musiktheatertage Wien … read more »
2021 in Retrospect
The eleventh year of AUSTRIAN MUSIC EXPORT’S existence was, unsurprisingly, filled with special challenges. What began as a shock to the domestic and global systems in 2020, continued into 2021 as something like a pesty splinter in the foot, which still hasn’t … read more »
A review of the AUSTRIAN MUSIC THEATRE DAY 2019
Are world premieres a fetish, where is the audience, how can fair payment be made, how can equality be achieved? The AUSTRIAN MUSIC THEATRE DAY in Vienna looked for answers. A WELCOME CULTURE FOR MUSIC THEATRE Not everyone has to love new … read more »
Interview with Angélica Castelló
In September ANGÉLICA CASTELLÓ will perform at the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN as a composer exploring the theme of the body. Mixing tasks turns out to be a novelty for her. Just like the collaboration with the choreographer ANNA KNAPP and ten dancers. Sylvia … read more »
“Sound Cloud I” – An interview with Peter Jakober
The idea for the opening play of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN 2019 was born during a meeting for a new musical play. The idea of a kind of sound installation in the WUK, which would take up the theme of civilisation, was given … read more »