Vienna tips
Concerts
17 places in Vienna we like to recommend to our guests.
Organ at eight in the Michaelerkirche
Saturday at eight, from June to September: half an hour on the Sieber organ of 1714, the largest baroque organ in Vienna. The instrument …
Michaelerplatz 5, 1010 WienRead more
Early music at the Ruprechtskirche, in summer
Vienna's oldest church, Monday and Tuesday at half past seven, from early July to early September. An hour of music from the middle ages …
Ruprechtsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
High Mass at the Augustinerkirche
Sunday at eleven, two minutes from the Hofburg: a complete orchestral mass by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert or Beethoven, with the choir, soloists and orchestra …
Augustinerstraße 3, 1010 WienRead more
Chamber music in the Sala Terrena
The oldest concert room in Vienna, an oval frescoed hall with a cupola and thirty-five seats. Mozart lived and played music here in 1781. …
Singerstraße 7, 1010 WienRead more
Klangkultur at the Minoritenkirche
The address we missed the longest ourselves. All year round at eight, about seventy minutes, 29 to 65 euro. What is played is real …
Minoritenplatz 2A, 1010 WienRead more
Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Hofburgkapelle
Sunday, quarter past nine, since 1498. This is not a performance, it is a mass: a complete setting by Mozart, Haydn or Schubert, sung …
Hofburg, Schweizerhof, 1010 WienRead more
MuTh, the concert hall of the Vienna Boys’ Choir
If you want to see the choir and not only hear it, go to their own hall by the Augarten. A Friday afternoon series, …
Am Augartenspitz 1, 1020 WienRead more
Palace concerts at Schönbrunn, the Orangery
Every evening at half past eight in the Orangery, where Mozart was set against Salieri in 1786. Mozart in the first half, Strauss in …
Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47, 1130 WienRead more
Vienna Mozart Concert at the Musikverein
The Golden Hall is the Golden Hall, there is no arguing with that. Mozart and Strauss, thirty-three performers in period costume, around one hundred …
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Musikverein, the regular season
The best kept tip in the city is not on any poster: returned tickets. When someone cannot use a seat they hand it back …
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Wiener Konzerthaus, the regular season
For everyone under thirty: remaining tickets at twenty euro, available thirty minutes before the start at the Ticket and Service Center, with proof of …
Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 WienRead more
Vienna State Opera, the standing places
The State Opera is not a nightly concert for visitors, it is one of the great opera houses of the world, and it lets …
Opernring 2, 1010 WienRead more
Spanish Riding School, if you would rather watch movement
Not a concert, but the most common mix-up in conversation. The performances in the winter riding hall of 1735 are accompanied by Viennese classical …
Michaelerplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Classic Ensemble Vienna at the Peterskirche
The best rated address among the evening concerts in Vienna, and that across more than a thousand reviews. An hour of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart …
Petersplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Vivaldi at the Karlskirche, Orchester 1756
The Four Seasons on period instruments, in the domed church on Karlsplatz, a few steps from Vivaldi's grave. Around seventy-five minutes, no interval, no …
Karlsplatz 1, 1040 WienRead more
The Four Seasons in St Stephen’s Cathedral
On Friday and Saturday evenings in the summer half of the year: Bach and Vivaldi inside the cathedral, played by the Harmonia Ensemble Wien. …
Stephansplatz 3, 1010 WienRead more
Eine kleine Nachtmusik at the Kapuzinerkirche
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at seven, directly above the Imperial Crypt on the Neuer Markt. Mozart, Bach, Schubert and Vivaldi, sixty minutes, played by …
Tegetthoffstraße 2, 1010 WienRead more