Aida

Giuseppe Verdi

10. July - 24. August 2024

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The grand opera about love's immortality

Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs - a secret, impossible love: the slave Aida and the military commander Radamès yearn to spend their lives together, and it is not only their unequal status that prevents them. The pharaoh’s passionate daughter Amneris also has eyes for the dapper captain and suspects her shy servant to be her rival.

With 'Aida', Giuseppe Verdi fashioned a great opera about the immortality of love. Large and grandiose crowd scenes are contrasted with passionate, almost chamber-like episodes in which the longings and conflicts of the characters are beguilingly expressed by the music.

Aida 2024 Kostümskizze Aida
676053 Steinbruch St Margarethen Steinbruch St Margarethen 1933 Andreas Tischler HQ

A place where nature can work it's magic

20-30 million of years ago, this quarry was part of the seabed. The limestone rocks contain a wealth of marine fossils. If you are lucky, you will find prehistoric mussels, corals, sea urchins and coralline algae. The limestone from the quarry was used for building St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, and the grandest buildings along the Vienna‘s Ringstraße. The colours and shapes of the rocks appear to change, according to where the sun is shining.

Ever since 1996, the St. Margarethen Quarry has been a favourite meeting place for international opera lovers. This open-air stage in beautiful Burgenland (65 km southeast of Vienna) provides a natural forum for bringing together cultures and people from East and West.

Set in the midst of a historic landscape, this venue will transport you to a world of new, unique experiences. By providing first-rate facilities for staging popular and top quality opera productions, their festival has succeeded in attracting enthusiastic audiences as well as international opera stars and musicians.

One of Europe’s most beautiful and impressive open-air arenas, operas have been performed at St. Margarethen Quarry since 1996. With the Esterházy Foundation as its owner, this location was redeveloped in 2006. AWG, a young, international architects group from Vienna, designed exciting architecture that was also sensitively attuned to the setting, a space that had actually been an industrial site for many centuries.


The seasoned leading team previously conjured up Asian flair at St. Margarethen Quarry in 2021. Now in 2024 they invite audiences to take a journey back in time to the Egypt of the Pharaohs and witness the dramatic love story between the servant Aida and the captain Radames.

2024 invites the leading team to take a journey back in time to the Egypt of the Pharaohs

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The breath-taking stage design only comes to life through the artists on stage. This summer, with an ensemble of top international singers under conductor Iván López-Reynoso, musical quality of the highest level is guaranteed.

The breath-taking stage design only comes to life through the artists on stage.

Leah Crocetto
Ekaterina Sannikova C Daniil Rabovsky
Gordon
Hovannes Ayvazyan kein C2
Puerta 00 Portrait 2023 Riccardo Botta 07 Q
Mikheil Sheshaberidze C DR
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Ksenia Nikolaeva kein C
Sofija Petrovic C DR
Leo An kein C
Zoltan Nagy c DR
Jongmin Parl c Shirley Suarez 001 Q
In Sung Sim C Siwoong Song
Artyom Wasnetsov
Ivan Zivoniev 01 JET2021 Moritz Schell 2 q
Melissa Purnell C Atelier Fotografico Fabio Boschi
Xhoiden Dervishi
Gruppenfotos Chor Orchester 002
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Leah Crocetto
Ekaterina Sannikova C Daniil Rabovsky
Gordon
Hovannes Ayvazyan kein C2
Puerta 00 Portrait 2023 Riccardo Botta 07 Q
Mikheil Sheshaberidze C DR
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Ksenia Nikolaeva kein C
Sofija Petrovic C DR
Leo An kein C
Zoltan Nagy c DR
Jongmin Parl c Shirley Suarez 001 Q
In Sung Sim C Siwoong Song
Artyom Wasnetsov
Ivan Zivoniev 01 JET2021 Moritz Schell 2 q
Melissa Purnell C Atelier Fotografico Fabio Boschi
Xhoiden Dervishi
Gruppenfotos Chor Orchester 002
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Oper im Steinbruch c Katharina Schiffl

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Concerts in the quarry

The quarry in St. Margarethen is a spectacular open-air stage. Thanks to its acoustics and impressive atmosphere, this natural, 7000 m² open-air concert hall makes for an unforgettable concert experience.

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