What do Belvedere Palace, the Opera Ball and Europe’s largest music competition have in widespread? A milestone birthday in 2023!
Austria has lots to supply in 2023! From its legendary snowboarding races to Belvedere’s three hundredth birthday, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Vienna World’s Honest and Europe’s largest free music competition, the Donauinselfest in Vienna, which turns 40 this 12 months – try the 2023 highlights beneath.
Sports activities
The Snowboarding World Cup 2023 is in full swing with all eyes on Kitzbühel (20-22 January) and Schladming (24 January) for the Hahnenkamm and Planai night time race, whereas St. Anton am Arlberg hosted the ladies’s downhill race and Tremendous-G (14-15 January) and the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships (16-25 January). And let’s not neglect in regards to the Ski Flying World cup at Klum, Styria (28-21 January).
But it surely’s not all about winter sports activities! Innsbruck-Stubai is preparing for the World Mountain and Path Operating Championships (6-10 June). The sporty occasion, the spotlight of a 10-day-festival held in a few of the most scenic locations within the Alps, will see athletes from around the globe compete in 4 completely different classes: vertical, path quick, path lengthy, and mountain traditional. Followers can watch the competitions and participate in path working workshops.
Conventional balls
The eightieth Vienna Philharmonic Ball takes place on 19 January turning the Musikverein into Vienna’s most elegant ballroom for one night time. It’s beloved amongst followers of classical music and one of many highlights of the Viennese ball season each ear.
2023 marks the sixty fifth anniversary of the legendary Vienna Opera Ball. The occasion on 16 February will see 5,000 company – together with many worldwide state company – dancing the night time away on the State Opera. This 12 months’s motto is “Solidarity”, with a small a part of the ticket worth going to charity.
Arts and exhibitions
In 2023, Vienna celebrates the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 1873 Vienna World’s Honest with a variety of particular exhibitions. The marathon kicks off on 2 Could with “Ladies at Work – 150 Years of the Ladies’s Pavilion of the Vienna World’s Honest” on the Vienna Museum of Know-how (TMW) adopted by an exhibition on J. & L. Lobmeyr, the standard Viennese manufactory for crystal glass and chandeliers, which was a part of the World’s Honest in 1873 and celebrates its two hundredth anniversary in 2023, at MAK – Museum of Utilized Arts (from 7 June) and an exhibition about Orientalism within the nineteenth century (from 21 June).
Vienna’s Belvedere Palace turns 300 this 12 months and marks the event with a number of new exhibitions. Among the many highlights: “Klimt. Impressed by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse…” about Klimt’s inventive heroes on the Decrease Belvedere (from 3 February) and “On the New. A various vary of fifty artists and twenty undertaking areas” about Vienna’s present artwork scene (beginning on 6 April at Belvedere 21).
The Musiktheater Linz, probably the most fashionable opera homes in Europe, celebrates its tenth birthday with a mixture of operas, musicals, and performs.
Music festivals
Europe’s largest free music competition, Vienna’s Donauinselfest (Danube Island Pageant), celebrates its fortieth anniversary from 23-25 June. The XXL occasion will see the factitious Danube Island flip into an open-air social gathering zone for 3 full days, with quite a few nationwide and worldwide music acts (line-up to be introduced in spring) on eleven phases. In 2022, greater than 2,5 million individuals attended the competition.
Linz in the meantime has a brand-new music competition known as Lido Sounds proper on the Danube, which is certain to be an prompt crowd-pleaser. Count on two phases, greater than 30 acts and 30.000 followers from 16-18 June. Florence + the Machine and German punk band Die Toten Hosen are headlining.