The Vienna State Opera is going on a search for truth in the coming season – music theater

Bogdan Roščić counted “dealing with the core repertoire” among his ambitions as director of the State Opera, and he still finds this a central concern. In this respect, the program of a new season is always a managerial answer to the question of what belongs to the core of the repertoire. For Roščić, Giacomo Puccini, who likes to be taken for kitsch, is one of them. That’s how it will be The triptych, staged by Tatjana Gürbaca, the first premiere of the 2023/24 season. Also a second Puccini blockbuster, viz Turandot, will be shown as a premiere. Claus Guth is directing, and Franz Welser-Möst, the former music director of the State Opera, is conducting.