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Center Stage – Performance and its place in Viennese life
Food & Drink
On the Canal | Waterfront Dining, Where 1010 Meets 1020
Every year the Danube Canal promenade gets a little more sexy, with laid-back bars, delicious street-food-style eateries and the urban attitude to mat...
July/August 2016
July/August 2016 | Center Stage
Performance and its place in Viennese life
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City Life
How to Take the Stage in Vienna
These tips will help you to channel your inner Anna Netrebko, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Waltz or Fred Astaire.
Taking in a Zauberflöte at the Staat...
July/August 2016
Editorial: Once Again, Austria
Austrian football fans have reason to celebrate. Against all odds, their team has not only qualified for the European Championship, but is also taken ...
July/August 2016
Letters to the Editor – Jul/Aug
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Culture
On Stage: Impulstanz – Kaleidoscopes of Movement
Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival soars above all preconceptions
Dancers dream of space, limitless space to move. Of rooms with no...
Film
On Screen: Starlight Auditorium – Open-Air Cinema
For the discerning cinephile, summer screenings under the heavens have a special romance
Austrians love taking things outside. With hot but seldo...
July/August 2016
The Last Word: Thomas Drozda
Austria has a new chancellor and with him comes a new minister. Thomas Drozda is in charge of Arts and Culture, and while he is new to the job, we ask...
July/August 2016
Piaristenviertel | Best of Both Worlds
Students and professors, officials and artists all feel at home in this venerable neighborhood
If location is everything, the Piaristenviertel in...
Art
On Display: Calle Libre – Living Walls
The Calle Libre Festival turns urban walls into galleries
When Jakob Kattner looks around Vienna, he doesn’t see the historic architecture that ...
July/August 2016
On Music: Rufus Wainwright
After 18 years, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter is still going strong
Known for his characteristic, warm voice, a complex, ever-changing st...
July/August 2016
Editorial: Politics with Production Values
Austria’s new media-savvy chancellor Christian Kern offers a “New Deal,” while facing down the far right
It was high drama in the Austrian Parliament...
July/August 2016
On Music: World Peace Choral Festival
Youth choirs from around the world sing for a better tomorrow
Hosted by Vienna’s classical music posterboys the Wiener Sängerknaben, the World Pe...
July/August 2016
On the Road: Classical Indulgence – Salzburg Festival
Salzburg is far more than Mozartkugeln, especially during festival season
The majestic Salzburg cathedral is the scenic backdrop for the seminal...
July/August 2016
Op-Ed: Confessions of a British Casting Agent in Vienna
Austria still needs to stamp its identity on supporting roles in international film and TV productions. One Brit in town has a mission to help things ...
July/August 2016
Science: Physics Showdown in Russia
A group of gifted high schoolers will defend Austria’s “physical” fitness at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament in early July
The Aus...
Cafés and Restaurants
Be My Guest: It’s All About the Meat, Baby
The creators of It’s All About the Meat, Baby share their plans for the future of Vienna burgers and how to make the best one
Resurrected from th...
Cover Story
Theater in Vienna – Reimagining The Self
Vienna’s dramatists have a long, brilliant and turbulent history. But no year was quite so momentous as 1929, the year modernity was born.
Hedwig Kie...
July/August 2016
Wine Labels | Love Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Even in the world of wine, appearances matter
So there you are in the Vinothek, staring at the shelves. So many wine labels; so many vintages… Now w...
Film
On Screen: High-Rise
Ben Wheatley's retro-futurist dystopia is slick, atmospheric and nightmarish
High-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's scathing social critique ...
July/August 2016
On Sale: Poetry in Motion
Two expat dancers, Stephanie Cumming and Katarina Meves warm up for Impulstanz in the Painting 2.0 exhibit at Mumok
Photos: Markus Thums
Styling...
Interviews
Sharon Booth | Dancer, Reloaded
We met Sharon Booth, an inpirational Canadian-born, Juilliard-educated dancer who found her way to Vienna, now teaching contemporary dance at the Staa...
July/August 2016
Editor’s Letter – Jul/Aug
Enter, stage left
The Irish dramatist Seán O’Casey once said, “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” As an exp...
July/August 2016
Technology: Artificial Intelligence in Music
Scientists are teaching computers about the complex factors that make music expressive. Might computers outperform humans someday?
The digital ag...
July/August 2016
On Music: Summers of Love and Music – Festivals
The nearby open air festivals will keep you busy while Vienna is on vacation
Bathed in sunshine, white wine and world-class entertainment, the Au...
Books
Books: Cultural Geotagging
Doing business with people from different cultural backgrounds can be tricky. Understanding them is the first step to making it work
There is an ol...
International
International: Making New Austrians out of Refugees
Austria's true challenge of the ongoing refugee crisis lies not in handling the immediate influx, but in making sure those who stay, stay with a purpo...
Art
On Display: Heritage Twice Removed
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei explores the meaning of migration at Vienna’s 21er Haus
Ai Weiwei is thrilled by the possibilities of his ...
Film
On Screen: Captain Fantastic
Screening at Sundance and Cannes, this indie family drama explores parenthood
Winning best director at Cannes’ Un certain regard competition this y...
Business
Business & Career: Beyond the White Cube
How young, savvy art producers bring new talent directly to the public by exploiting new spaces, technology and social media, thereby sidestepping the...
July/August 2016
Profiles: Vienna’s Got Talent
Raise the curtain! Cue the lights! For these Vienna-based performers, the show must go on. A classical violinist, an opera soprano, a musical theater ...
Bars and Nightlife
Moon River | Evening Cruise on the Alte Donau
Under a night sky, boating can rekindle romance – if you avoid the obstacles
With schools out and the European Championships drawing to a close, ...
July/August 2016
Editorial: Of Us and Them
Trump notwithstanding, America has been far more successful than Austria at making newcomers feel part of society.
The key is approach: A fervent b...