Vienna Trip Report, Twenty-Four Threescore Minutes Catamenia 7: Country Opera, Albertina

DAY 7, 23 NOVEMBER 2017, Thursday:

Vienna State Opera house

TRAIN TICKET OPTIONS:

OBB is the official railways of Republic of Austria . We tin purchase discounted tickets ahead for €19 merely on the move twenty-four hr catamenia it'll become upwards to €45.

Westbahn plies hourly trains betwixt Vienna too Salzburg too tickets are reasonably priced for electrical current twenty-four hr catamenia travel also. We decided to role this flexibility.

We reached Salzburg hbf, looked for the side past times side westbahn prepare to Vienna. It was at 9.20 am. We could non detect machines, then decided to purchase tickets on the train. We looked for the dedicated westbahn platform too boarded our train. We bought tickets from the controller for €27.

Local carry card:

The wifi was fantabulous too nosotros bought local carry menu for Vienna on the prepare itself then that nosotros tin start its role every bit nosotros landed.

Single ticket is € 2,20
Wochenkarte - seven twenty-four hr catamenia Zone 100 (city centre) travelcard €16.20

Great deal!

(Valid on All forms of transport - but beware: valid from 00:00 Mon to 09:00 the next Mon regardless of what twenty-four hr catamenia of the calendar week you lot purchase it! Buy it on a Lord's Day too you lot larn less than 1 day's use!). It was a Thursday, then skilful value for us. We had been told machines may non dispense that week's menu after inwards the week, then buying online proved corking for us. No require to validate/time postage every bit the menu was dated for the electrical current calendar week too it had our names also. We got it printed when nosotros reached our hotel, inwards representative telephone battery runs out.

COMFORT APARTMENTS, WIEN:

Our prepare reached Westbahnhof. We took autobus five to Alser strasse. Our bird was 100m from the stop. We had an early on checkin.

Spacious, construct clean bird amongst corking connectivity.

Tram correct outside...

13A which is from the opp side of the same street took us the hbf for our twenty-four hr catamenia trip to Melk too also prepare to Budapest.

Trams 43, 44 halt correct inwards front end of the apt too withdraw maintain us to Scottentor from where nosotros could become anywhere every bit at that spot are many connections. Billa supermarket is 100m away.

Relevant stops are circled hither inwards the local carry map here:

On the negative side, the heater never worked, the hot H2O is moderated at a less than existent hot temperature. We did non heed these because of the other positives. We got a belatedly checkout every bit good after our three nighttime stay.

Vienna is a splendid metropolis on the banks of the Danube River. For centuries the gateway betwixt West too East Europe, it was the natural nucleus of the 1 time sprawling Habsburg Empire, then at that spot are many palaces.

On Th Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is opened upwards till 9pm, then I had scheduled that.

Vienna State Opera House (Wiener Staatsoper):

First nosotros went to the Vienna State Opera for a tour. There are tours at xiv too fifteen hours on 23, 24 nov: 25 nov closed. nine euros

One of the world's largest too nearly splendid theaters, the Vienna State Opera House (Wiener Staatsoper) has hosted many of the world's nearly prominent composers, conductors, soloists, too dancers. Operatic too ballet performances are staged at to the lowest degree 300 times a year, fuelled past times an obsession amongst music that goes every bit far dorsum every bit 1625 when the outset Viennese Court Opera was performed.

The electrical current massive Opera House was built inwards 1869 too is notable for its French Early Renaissance style, piece interior highlights include a grand staircase leading to the outset floor, the Schwind Foyer (named after its paintings of famous opera scenes), too the exquisite Tea Room amongst its valuable tapestries. Capable of accommodating an audience of 2,211 along amongst 110 musicians, the Opera House is also domicile to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

From the foyer, nosotros withdraw maintain the grand staircase to the solid ground rooms (Tea Salon, Marble Hall, Schwind Foyer, Gustav Mahler Hall) earlier nosotros attain the auditorium (catching a facial expression at the stage).

Underground: U1, U2, U4 – Stop at KARLSPLATZ
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 – Stop at OPERNRING
Bus: 59A

Had high expectations merely it was less impressive than Paris Opera Garnier or fifty-fifty Budapest opera house.

Emperor's salon (Tea salon)

walls are adorned amongst the entwined letters F too J, the monogram of Emperor Francis Joseph (1830-1916), who had the Court Opera House built, too during his long reign subsidized it amongst personal funds.

Marble Hall is hung amongst modern tapestries

Marble hall

Albertina:

We wanted to become to Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, then decided to encounter Albertina on the way.

Raphael:

There was Raphael, nosotros withdraw maintain enjoyed extensively inwards Rome

Raphael rooms inwards Sistine chapel, Roma

Impressionism:

impressionism display, We LOVE impressionism merely nosotros withdraw maintain seen extensive corking pieces inwards Paris too fifty-fifty inwards Houston. Here the expose was meager.

Rodin...

Picasso

There was Picasso. We don't "get" his art

Bruegel

We LOVED the Bruegel pieces. LOOK at the strokes!!

We had been looking frontward to seeing the State apartments merely they were shut for a ceremony. This was a huge disappointment. Wish I had known inwards advance.

Anyways nosotros went inwards search of Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna merely got lost too could non detect it.

It was dark, nosotros called it a twenty-four hr catamenia too went dorsum to our apartments.

VIDEO LINK FOR VIENNA:

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Vienna, Melk Abbey, Wachau valley, Durnstein

A piddling fleck of a disappointing start on the 1st twenty-four hr catamenia merely thankfully side past times side days were all AWESOME. It's covered here:

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