Auditorium · 19:00
Carmen
Bizet’s Carmen, sung in French, in Calixto Bieito’s staging.
- Three categories, €93.00 to €252.00 — €0.00 booking fee
- Curtain at 19:00
- Auditorium: Opernring 2
- A printed card from the organiser: collect it free from our office, or we deliver it free to your hotel. Never posted.
Book in three moves
Pick a date, then choose a category and how many seats. Nothing is charged here.
The basket shows every line with its own refund date before anything is paid.
At a glance
- What
- Bizet’s Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper in Calixto Bieito’s production: four acts in Seville, sung in French, with surtitles at every seat.
- When
- 1 date from Saturday, 17 October 2026 to 17 October 2026; curtain at 19:00.
- Where
- Auditorium, Opernring 2, 1010 Wien.
- Prices
- Preisgruppe 1 €252.00, Preisgruppe 3 €172.00, Preisgruppe 5 €93.00. €0.00 booking fee.
- Seating
- No seat is assigned for this.
- Tickets
- A printed card from the organiser: collect it free from our office, or we deliver it free to your hotel. Never posted.
- Changes
- Free date change until 48 hours before, same event and category, up to twice. Refund dates are printed per line in your basket.
- Booking
- Sold by Vienna Evening, an independent ticket service and not the house itself, at the face value printed on the card. The price you see is the price charged.
The room
Auditorium
Wiener Staatsoper, Opernring 2, 1010 Wien
The opera house on the Ring, first of the great Ringstrasse buildings. A few nights a season the Wiener Mozart Konzert takes its stage.
1 night · 17 October 2026 – 17 October 2026
Who plays
Seville, a cigarette factory and a bullring
Carmen works in a cigarette factory in Seville and answers to nobody. Don José is the corporal who lets her escape arrest, deserts for her and follows her into a band of smugglers; Escamillo is the bullfighter she turns to; Micaëla is the girl from his village who comes to bring him home.
Calixto Bieito’s production, with sets by Alfons Flores and costumes by Mercè Paloma, is sung in the original French. Henrik Nánási conducts.
Stéphanie d’Oustrac
Carmen
Roberto Alagna
Don José
Philippe Sly
Escamillo
Anna Bondarenko
Micaëla
Henrik Nánási
Musical direction
The houseTiers of red and gold under the chandelier
The way inThe grand staircase, before the curtain
On the RingThe house lit for the evening
Know before you book
- Curtain at 19:00, down at about 22:00, with one interval. Sung in French; every seat has its own surtitle screen, with English and German always available. The house recommends it from 14.
- Calixto Bieito’s production, with sets by Alfons Flores and costumes by Mercè Paloma, conducted by Henrik Nánási. Stéphanie d’Oustrac sings Carmen, Roberto Alagna Don José, Philippe Sly Escamillo and Anna Bondarenko Micaëla.
- The cast is the one the house announces for this evening. Casting is the house’s to change, and a change does not change your ticket.
- We buy these seats from the house at its public sale, like anybody else, and resell each one at the price the house prints on it. Our booking fee is €0.00.
- A printed ticket from the house: collect it free at our office, or we deliver it free to your hotel. Never posted.
- Each ticket is a single seat the house assigned inside its Preisgruppe, so we cannot promise that two of them are together.
Questions guests ask
What do you add to the price?
Nothing. The price on this page is the price the Wiener Staatsoper prints on the ticket, and our booking fee is €0.00. The house sells the same seats itself — online, by phone and at its box office — and where one is left there, buying direct costs the same.
What is a Preisgruppe?
The house’s own price group. The Wiener Staatsoper divides its seats into nine by their view of the stage, and what each costs depends on the evening. We hold seats in three of them; each row on this page says where in the house it is.
Can we sit together?
We cannot promise it. The house assigns each seat inside its Preisgruppe and we hold individual seats, so two tickets may be apart. The seat is printed on the ticket.
How do I get the ticket?
It is a printed ticket from the house. Collect it free at our office, or have it delivered free to your hotel — you choose at checkout. We never post it.
What if a singer cancels?
The performance goes ahead with the singer the house sends on and your ticket stays valid — the house’s own terms say a cast change is never a reason to return a ticket. Your own cancellation date, printed on your order line, is unaffected.
Until when can I cancel?
Fourteen days from purchase, and never inside 48 hours of the curtain — whichever comes first. The exact date is printed on your order line before you pay.
Can I change the date?
Only to another evening of the same opera that we hold, in the same Preisgruppe, until 48 hours before. For this opera we hold one evening, so today there is no other date to move to.
Is there a cheaper way in?
Standing room. The house sells it on the day of the performance from 10:00, online and at its box offices, for €15 to €23 on these evenings — and nobody can hold it for you, us included.
What happens when these seats are gone?
The row reads sold out and stays on the page. We do not buy more on the night or offer a substitute; the house’s own box office is linked from its page.
Getting there
Wiener Staatsoper
Opernring 2, 1010 Wien — Auditorium
Karlsplatz (U1, U2, U4) exits directly beneath the house; trams D, 1, 2, 62 and 71 stop at Oper.
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