The Vienna Festival 2019 is Opened

More+Events ♦ Published: May 10, 2019; 22:35 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) were opened and started with a mainly female stage. The Vienna Festival is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five weeks in May and June. The Wiener Festwochen show theatre, opera and dance productions from all parts of the world and also perform as producers of international productions.

The Vienna Festival 2019 takes place from 10 May to 16 June. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Bwag [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

They were held for the first time in 1927 and for the first time in the "Ständestaat" on 2 June 1935.

After the Second World War, they were reinstalled on 26 May 1951 (after the first Music and Theatre Festival had been held in June 1947) on the initiative of City Councillor Hans Mandl and have since been held annually in May/June with growing success.

In 1955, the…