Neue Oper Wien is an Austrian opera company based in Vienna.

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Wiener Taschenoper Wiener Taschenoper (Vienna pocket opera) is an Austrian opera company based in Vienna. Insight Guides cite them and the Neue Oper Wien as "two of the independent groups which perform exclusively 20th and 21st-century opera". Productions Choreo ...

as "two of the independent groups which perform exclusively 20th and 21st-century opera".

Operas performed, 1992–2014

* 1992: Musiktheater-Keimzellen (World premiere) * 1994: Axel Seidelmann: ''Hiob'' (World premiere) * 1995: Reinhard Süss/

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expre ...

: ''Sphinx und Strohmann'' (World premiere) * 1995:

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

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Der Silbersee ''Der Silbersee: ein Wintermärchen'' (''The Silver Lake: a Winter's Fairy Tale'') is a 'play with music' in three acts by Kurt Weill to a German text by Georg Kaiser. The subtitle is an allusion to Heinrich Heine's 1844 satirical epic poem, '' G ...

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Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, o ...

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Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'', also known as ''Billy Budd, Foretopman'', is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed vers ...

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Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 10 June 1960) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Life and career Mark-Anthony Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex on 10 June 1960. Turnage was the eldest of three children. His parents were lov ...

: ''Greek'' * 1997:

Max Brand Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American writer known primarily for his Western (genre), Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young ...

: ''Maschinist Hopkins'' * 1999:

Tan Dun Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a pairing which has shaped much of his life and mu ...

: ''Marco Polo'' * 2000: Dirk D'Ase: ''Arrest'' (World premiere) * 2000:

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...

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Candide ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled ''Candide: or, All for the Best'' (1759); ''Candide: or, The ...

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: ''Johnny Johnson'' * 2003:

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (; born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Associated with the "instrumental musique concrète" style, Lachenmann is alongside Wolfgang Rihm as among the leading Germa ...

: ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'' * 2003:

Wolfram Wagner Wolfram Wagner (born 28 September 1962 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and flautist. He graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, University of Music in Vienna, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Frank ...

/ Peter Turrini: ''Endlich Schluss'' (World premiere) * 2004: Christoph Coburger nach

Daniil Charms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (; – 2 February 1942) was a Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist in the early Soviet era. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvachev in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of the Ru ...

: ''Zwischenfälle'' (World premiere) * 2004:

John Casken John Arthur Casken (born 15 July 1949) is an English composer. Casken was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. While at Barnsley Grammar School in the 1960s his music teacher played a recording of Berg's Violin Concerto, which h ...

: ''God’s Liar'' * 2005:

Péter Eötvös Péter Eötvös (, ; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher. After studies of composition in Budapest and Cologne, Eötvös composed film music in Hungary from 1962. He played with the Stockhaus ...

: ''Le Balcon'' //

Michael Tippett Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as o ...

: ''The Knot Garden'' * 2005: Christoph Cech –

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string instrument, string player. A composer of both Secular music, secular and Church music, sacred music, and a pioneer ...

: ''Orfeo'' (World premiere) * 2006:

Richard Dünser Richard Dünser (born 1 May 1959) is an Austrian composer of stage works, orchestral music and chamber music, among others. Life Born in Bregenz, Dünser studied composition after his Matura first at the of his hometown and later at the Vienn ...

/Thomas Höft: ''Radek'' (World premiere) * 2006: Erik Hojsgaard nach

Ödön von Horváth Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901 – 1 June 1938) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the ''nom de plume'' Ödön von Horváth (). He was one of the most critically admired writers of his g ...

: ''Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg'' (World premiere) * 2006:

Dieter Kaufmann Dieter Kaufmann (born 22 April 1941) is an Austrian composer. Biography Kaufmann was born in Vienna and grew up in Carinthia. He studied music, German philology, art history, violoncello, composition (with Karl Schiske, Gottfried von Einem, Oli ...

nach Josef Winkler: ''Requiem für Piccoletto'' (World premiere) * 2006:

Thomas Pernes Thomas Pernes (25 February 1956 – 26 February 2018) was an Austrian avant-garde composer and performance artist who lived and worked in Vienna. He studied piano with Bruno Seidlhofer and composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. The start o ...

/Gloria G.: ''Zauberflöte06'' (World premiere) * 2007:

: ''Tea'' * 2008:

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American " ...

: ''What next?'' //

Detlev Glanert Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a Opera in German, German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Biography Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came ...

: ''Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung'' * 2008: Isidora Zebeljan: ''Eine Marathon-Familie'' (World premiere) * 2008:

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices ...

: ''FUGE – UNFUG – E'' (World premiere) * 2009:

Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include '' T ...

: ''The Last Supper'' * 2010: Herwig Reiter/ Peter Turrini: ''Campiello'' (World premiere) * 2012: Markus Lehmann-Horn / Michael Schneider: ''Woyzeck 2.0 – Traumfalle'' (World premiere) * 2013:

Šimon Voseček Šimon Voseček (born 13 April 1978) is an Austrians, Austrian-Czechs, Czech composer. He is known for his opera ''Biedermann und die Brandstifter'' (''Biedermann and the Arsonists'', (2005–2007; 2013; 2015), which was premiered in Vienna by Ne ...

: ''Biedermann und die Brandstifter'' (World premiere) * 2013:

: "Paradise reloaded (Lilith)" (World premiere) * 2014: Harrison Birtwistle: ''

Punch and Judy Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Mr Punch and one other ...

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Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Brau ...

: ''Orest''

References

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* Austrian opera companies Organisations based in Vienna Musical groups from Vienna {{Austria-stub