Vestas Feuer is a fragment of an opera composed in 1803 by Ludwig van Beethoven to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The plot involves a romantic intrigue in which the heroine temporarily becomes a V
Detail of an 1804–05 portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler
Emanuel Schikaneder playing the role of Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute. Engraving by Ignaz Alberti.
The Theater an der Wien as it appeared in 1815
Ancient Roman statue of a Vestal Virgin
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The lib
Playbill of the first performance
Opera in the Heights ensemble, 2011