Gunkl – one of Austria’s most gifted stage entertainers – is performing a new programme. The artist also known as Günther Paal will perform “Die großen Kränkungen der Menschheit – auch schon nicht leicht” on several stages across Austria in the coming weeks. However, the “Salzburger Stier” laureate is also looking forward to entertaining his […]
One of Austria’s most renowned spoken word artists has presented his latest programme while a Dutch bluesman tours the country. “Un Ruhe Stand”, which plays with the German term for retirement (Ruhestand), is the 24th stage programme of Lukas Resetarits. In it, the celebrated entertainer and actor tries to find out whether the complaints of […]
Political leaders and showbiz stars had only kind words about last night’s (Thurs) Opera Ball. Austrian President Heinz Fischer said the event had nothing to do with the corruption scandals former Austrian government ministers, businesspeople and lobbyists are accused of being involved in. A special parliamentary commission headed by Gabriela Moser of the Green Party […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Cuba is set to arrive in Vienna in March 2012 to wash away the winter blues. The MuseumsQuartier will play host to “The Bar at Buena Vista” hailed as “The grandfathers of Cuban music” at the beginning of March, continuing the Caribbean celebration with Dance Company, “Ballet Revolución” later in the month. […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Corsets, transvestites and ray guns. It can only mean one thing – The Rocky Horror Show is back in Vienna. Richard O’Brien’s iconic musical in all its grotesque glory is currently being performed in the MuseumsQuartier and over 38 years after it was first staged in London, appears to still be attracting […]
A movie the British Film Institute named the best British film of the 20th century will be on at the Burgkino this Sunday (27 November). THE THIRD MAN has been on at the Viennese cinema, which shows all films in their original language versions, for years. Tourists and local residents are flocking to the Burgkino […]
A series of pre-Christmas, classical concerts will take place in Salzburg this winter. The event named “Delirium” is to be presented by conductor, director and founder of the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, Gustav Kuhn. The various concerts will take place in the Mozarteum Foundation’s Large Hall and will play host to both the orchestra and […]
Steven Soderbergh’s new medical thriller CONTAGION will be on at the Burgkino Vienna – where all films are screened in their original language versions – tomorrow (Weds). The film starring Matt Damon (“The Bourne Identity”, “The Departed”) and Laurence Fishburne (“Rumble Fish”, “Mission: Impossible III”) won wide acclaim by critics and crowds. David Cronenberg’s A […]
By Fidan Aliyeva The presentation of the 2010-released movie “Gogol, the closest” directed by Soviet and Russian actress and film director Natalia Bondarchuk was held last week in the city’s Burg Kino. The evening was devoted to Ukranian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Vasiliyevich Gogol, with the participation of the Russian and Austrian embassies, and […]
Keira Knightley has revealed how she managed to leave her sinister role in a new drama movie behind her at the end of a day of shooting. The English actress plays Sabina Spielrein, a psychoanalyst and patient of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, in David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”. In the film, Knightley’s character suffers from […]