Thirty-five years ago, I visited Vienna on my first backpacking trip to Europe. I have a faint memory of touring the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Naturhistorisches Museum, Schönbrunn Palace, and ...

Vienna's renowned state opera will have to make do with an old stage set for Friday's performance of Rossini's opera 'The Barber of Seville' following complaints about "unpleasant odours" some likened ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg This was featured in live coverage.

At the Vienna State Opera, the crowd dresses the part. Clambering up the stairs to the standing section, where I scored a last-minute, €15 ($17.50) perch to watch Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem ...