What do Belvedere Palace, the Opera Ball and Europe’s largest music pageant 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 a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Vienna World’s Fair and Europe’s largest free music pageant, the Donauinselfest in Vienna, which turns 40 this 12 months – take a look at the 2023 highlights under.
Sports
The Skiing 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 Super-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’s not all about winter sports activities! Innsbruck-Stubai is preparing for the World Mountain and Trail Running 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. Fans can watch the competitions and participate in path operating workshops.
Traditional 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 value going to charity.
Arts and exhibitions
In 2023, Vienna celebrates the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair with quite a lot of particular exhibitions. The marathon kicks off on 2 May with “Women at Work – 150 Years of the Women’s Pavilion of the Vienna World’s Fair” on the Vienna Museum of Technology (TMW) adopted by an exhibition on J. & L. Lobmeyr, the normal Viennese manufactory for crystal glass and chandeliers, which was a part of the World’s Fair in 1873 and celebrates its 2 hundredth anniversary in 2023, at MAK – Museum of Applied 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 highlights: “Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse…” about Klimt’s creative heroes on the Lower Belvedere (from 3 February) and “On the New. A diverse range of fifty artists and twenty project spaces” 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 pageant, Vienna’s Donauinselfest (Danube Island Festival), celebrates its fortieth anniversary from 23-25 June. The XXL occasion will see the substitute Danube Island flip into an open-air get together 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 folks 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 instantaneous crowd-pleaser. Expect 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.