Vienna Festival

The Vienna Festival features theatre, opera and dance from all parts of the globe, also acting as producers of international works.

[8] The programme seeks to bridge tradition and current developments in productions from all genres: operas, concerts, drama, performances, installations, readings, films.

Under the artistic directorship of Christophe Slagmuylder (2019 – 2023), the Vienna Festival became Festwochen 2020 reframed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with digital events on offer during May and June followed by fifteen live productions staged between 26 August and 26 September 2020.

[12] The future form of festivals was debated in a range of participative formats, such as the Council of the Republic, and with an extended network of local and international partners.

The newly established Academy Second Modernism is the global womxn composers’ platform of the Vienna Festival | Free Republic of Vienna, which aims to significantly raise the share of works by womxn composers featured in the programmes of concerts, festivals and operas across the globe.