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Museumsquartier instead of Naschmarkt, Halle E instead of Theater an der Wien... The 22/23 season brings with it not only the new artistic director Stefan Herheim, but also a new venue. We would like to continue to give all theater enthusiasts the opportunity to look behind the scenes and at the same time get to know our new venue.

Although the comic opera Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari by Giambattista Casti with music by Antonio Salieri is apparently set in Cathay, the situation it portrays is actually that of European royal courts, especially the court of the Russian tsar. The central question raised by the authors, in the true spirit of the Enlightenment in Europe, is how those in power deal with the responsibility they have for their lands.

Is this a courtly drama or a parody of one? In his opera "Flavio", George Frideric Handel tells a story of love, jealousy, ambition and wounded pride at the court of the King of the Lombards in the 9th century.