The State Opera is not a nightly concert for visitors, it is one of the great opera houses of the world, and it lets you in for the price of a coffee and a slice of cake. Standing tickets go on sale eighty minutes before the performance, at the entrance on the Operngasse corner.

Bring a scarf to tie to the rail, that is how you claim your spot. You stand for three hours and remember it for the rest of your life. wiener-staatsoper.at.