Living Legacies opens the 2026–27 ballet season at the Vienna State Opera with three works by major choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon and Frederick Ashton, this elegant ballet evening offers a rich introduction to different traditions of classical and contemporary ballet.
Performance details
- Venue: Vienna State Opera
- Company: Vienna State Ballet
- Programme: Divertimento No. 15 / Within the Golden Hour / Rhapsody
- Duration: approx. 2 hours 45 minutes, including two intermissions
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A refined ballet evening at the Vienna State Opera
Living Legacies presents ballet as a living tradition, shaped by choreographers whose works continue to inspire dancers and audiences today. The programme moves from Balanchine’s musical clarity and classical elegance to Wheeldon’s luminous contemporary lyricism and Ashton’s brilliant, technically sparkling ballet style.
For visitors to Vienna, this is an excellent choice for an evening with the Vienna State Ballet: varied, graceful and accessible, with three contrasting works in one performance. It is especially well suited to those who enjoy ballet as pure movement, musicality and stage beauty rather than a single narrative story.
Divertimento No. 15
- Conductor: David Coleman
- Choreography: George Balanchine
- Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Costumes: Karinska
- Staging: Sandra Jennings
Within the Golden Hour
- Conductor: David Coleman
- Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
- Music: Ezio Bosso, Antonio Vivaldi
- Costumes: Jasper Conran
- Lighting: Peter Mumford
Rhapsody
- Conductor: David Coleman
- Piano: Yoko Kikuchi
- Choreography and stage: Frederick Ashton
- Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Costumes reconstructed by: Natalia Stewart
- Lighting: Peter Teigen
Programme and cast may vary by performance date.
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Discover more performances by the Vienna State Ballet at the Vienna State Opera, from classical story ballets to contemporary choreography and mixed programmes.
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- Onegin at the Vienna State Opera
- Swan Lake at the Vienna State Opera
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