Seasonal and special · a permanent page
The Vienna season, honestly booked.
Gala nights, ball nights and the evenings a city sells out months ahead are not our own events. We buy a handful of cards when each organiser releases them and pass them on at the printed price with a €0.00 fee. So this page is written to be useful when we hold nothing: what each evening is, who runs it, and who to ask when our shelf is empty.
How galas and balls work here
Pre-acquired stock, not a supplier relationship
Every concert on this site comes from an ensemble we have an arrangement with. Galas and balls do not work that way: a club or a promoter runs the night, sells to whoever is quickest, and owes us nothing. We queue like everybody else, buy a few cards, and resell them at the price printed on them.
The consequence is honest and slightly awkward: our shelf empties, sometimes within days of a release. When it does, this page still tells you what the evening is and whose door to knock on.
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The organiser releases, everybody queues
Every performance goes on public sale from the house itself, to everyone at once. We are in that queue like anybody else and get nothing earlier.
02
We buy a handful
A small number of physical cards per evening, bought at the release and paid for. They are ours: a real financial position, which is why the number is small.
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We resell at the price printed on the card
The face value is printed beside our price on every line, our booking fee is €0.00, and on these cards our margin is €0.00 by design.
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When they are gone, we say so
The row reads sold out and keeps its place. No waiting list, no timer, no substitute you did not choose — and the house’s own box office is linked from every page.
What we hold
Seasonal and special, on our shelf today
Read fresh at the moment you load this page. Open or sold out — never a count of somebody else’s seats.
SeasonalAdvent Candlelight: Bach & CorelliKarlskircheKarlskirchefrom €33.00
SeasonalChristmas Oratorio at the CathedralSt Stephen’s CathedralSt Stephen’s Cathedralfrom €45.00
SeasonalNew Year’s Eve Gala at the HofburgHofburgHofburgfrom €89.00
SeasonalVienna Boys’ Choir: Christmas MatineeMuTh, AugartenMuTh, Augartenfrom €39.00
The ball season
Every ball is run by its own club
Sold at its own printed price, and entry never includes a seat at a table. A ball with a page of its own is listed here, in stock or out.
If the organiser cancels
If we cannot supply
If we cannot supply what you bought, the affected line is refunded in full and immediately, however close the date, and the 48-hour limit does not apply.
Refunded in full, whatever the date
Printed cards
Printed cards
Some products are physical cards issued by the organiser. They are collected free from our office or delivered free to your hotel. They are never posted.
Collected or delivered free — never posted
Changing the date
Changing the date
A date change is free until 48 hours before the performance, for the same event and the same category, up to two times per order.
A printed card comes back to us first
The season at a glance
- What
- A permanent page for the Viennese season: the gala and ball nights we buy cards for, and what to do when we hold none.
- How we sell
- Pre-acquired stock: a handful of cards bought at each release and resold at the printed price, €0.00 booking fee. When the shelf is empty the page says so and names the organiser.
- On the shelf
- 4 evenings listed, each open or sold out.
- Changes
- Gala and ball cards are the organiser’s product; a cancelled night is refunded in full. The rule in full is on changes and refunds.
- Where to ask
- A person on WhatsApp, or our counter — the office.
About these facts
Every claim on this page is one of our own recorded decisions. Nothing here states a date, a price or a house we did not read from the catalogue.
Questions people actually ask
Is it cheaper to buy from the house?
Is it cheaper to buy from the house?
Usually yes, and where that is true we link to their own box office on the page. Our booking fee is €0.00, but a house selling its own seat has no intermediary at all.
Why do you not show how many seats are left?
Why do you not show how many seats are left?
Because for most of the catalogue they are not our seats to count. We would be reporting a number we cannot see.
Why do you sell opera cards at zero margin?
Why do you sell opera cards at zero margin?
So a visitor arriving in December can still get into an evening that sold out in September. It is a service position, not a profit one, and we carry the risk if a card goes unsold.
When are house releases?
When are house releases?
Each house publishes its own dates, months in advance. Where we know the next one for a title we hold nothing for, we print it on that title’s page.