Musical life in the new opera house on the Ring

Playbill advertising the opening of the Vienna Court Opera House with a performance of Mozart’s *Don Juan* (Don Giovanni), 26 May 1869, repro-negative

 

Opening performance at the new Court Opera in Vienna with Mozart’s *Don Giovanni*, view of the auditorium looking towards the stage, 25 May 1869, contemporary watercolour

 

Visit of the King and Queen of Italy to Vienna, Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth with their guests at the Court Opera, 28 October 1881, xylograph after an ad vivum drawing by Wilhelm Gause

 

Gala performance at the opera given in honour of the King and Queen of Romania, early 20th century, heliogravure

 

Moritz Nähr: Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) in the loggia of the Vienna Court Opera, 1907, photograph

 

Set designs by Alfred Roller for *Tristan und Isolde* by Richard Wagner, repro-negative

 

Playbill advertising a performance at the Vienna Court Opera of the new production of *Tristan und Isolde* by Richard Wagner on 21 February 1903, repro-negative after a print

 

Gustav Mahler: Farewell letter in the composer’s own hand to the members of the Court Opera, dated 7 December 1907

 

Gustav Mahler: Transcription of the farewell letter in the composer’s own hand to the members of the Court Opera, dated 7 December 1907