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 Exp ...

: ''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 his fru ...

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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, ''Ger ...

'' * 1996:

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

: ''

Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'' 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 version was finally published in 1924, it quick ...

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Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE (born 10 June 1960) is a British composer of classical music. Biography Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex. He began composing at age nine and at fourteen began studying at the junior section of the Royal College of M ...

: ''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. He (as Max Brand) 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 dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and ...

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

Leonard Bernstein Leonard 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 the first America ...

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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, Th ...

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: ''Johnny Johnson'' * 2003:

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète". Life and works Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end ...

: ''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 in Vienna, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Frankfurt Conservatory. In 1992 he was appointed pro ...

Peter Turrini Peter Turrini (born 26 September 1944 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia) is an Austrian playwright known for his socio-critical work and earlier folk-dramas. Born in Carinthia, Turrini has been writing since 1971, when his play ''Rozznjogd'' premiered at ...

: ''Endlich Schluss'' (World premiere) * 2004: Christoph Coburger nach Daniil Charms: ''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 ...

: ''God’s Liar'' * 2005:

Péter Eötvös Péter Eötvös ( hu, Eötvös Péter, ; born 2 January 1944) is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher. Eötvös was born in Székelyudvarhely, Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He studied composition in Budapest and Colog ...

: ''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 ...

: ''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 player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is conside ...

: ''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 Vienna ...

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

Ödön von Horváth Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, Paris France) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the name of ''nom de guerre'' Ödön von Horváth. He was ...

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

: ''Tea'' * 2008:

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernism (music), modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism a ...

: ''What next?'' //

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

: ''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 writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-vo ...

: ''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 Herwig Reiter (born 26 June 1941, in Waidhofen an der Thaya) is an Austrian composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupat ...

: ''Campiello'' (World premiere) * 2012: Markus Lehmann-Horn / Michael Schneider: ''Woyzeck 2.0 – Traumfalle'' (World premiere) * 2013:

Šimon Voseček Šimon Voseček (13 April 1978) is an Austrian- 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 Neue Oper Wien in 20 ...

: ''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 Mr. Punch and one other character w ...

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

: ''Orest''

References

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