What do Belvedere Palace, the Opera Ball and Europe’s largest music pageant have in frequent? A milestone birthday in 2023!
Austria has lots to supply in 2023! From its legendary snowboarding races to Belvedere’s three hundredth birthday, the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Vienna World’s Truthful and Europe’s largest free music pageant, the Donauinselfest in Vienna, which turns 40 this 12 months – take a look at 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 evening 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 concerning the Ski Flying World cup at Klum, Styria (28-21 January).
Nevertheless it’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 number of the most scenic locations within the Alps, will see athletes from world wide compete in 4 totally 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 evening. 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 evening 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 a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 1873 Vienna World’s Truthful with quite a lot of particular exhibitions. The marathon kicks off on 2 Might with “Girls at Work – 150 Years of the Girls’s Pavilion of the Vienna World’s Truthful” on the Vienna Museum of Expertise (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 Truthful in 1873 and celebrates its 2 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 mission areas” about Vienna’s present artwork scene (beginning on 6 April at Belvedere 21).
The Musiktheater Linz, one of the vital trendy opera homes in Europe, celebrates its tenth birthday with a mixture of operas, musicals, and performs.
Music festivals
Europe’s largest free music pageant, Vienna’s Donauinselfest (Danube Island Competition), celebrates its fortieth anniversary from 23-25 June. The XXL occasion will see the synthetic Danube Island flip into an open-air celebration zone for 3 full days, with quite a few nationwide and worldwide music acts (line-up to be introduced in spring) on eleven levels. In 2022, greater than 2,5 million individuals attended the pageant.
Linz in the meantime has a brand-new music pageant referred to as Lido Sounds proper on the Danube, which is certain to be an prompt crowd-pleaser. Count on two levels, greater than 30 acts and 30.000 followers from 16-18 June. Florence + the Machine and German punk band Die Toten Hosen are headlining.
