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Music Theater Prize 2025: Linzer Landestheater, the strong contender!
The Austrian Music Theater Prize will be awarded in Vienna on September 17, 2025, with 63 nominations in 15 categories.
Music Theater Prize 2025: Linzer Landestheater, the strong contender!
Salzburg and Vienna are in competition for the renowned Austrian Music Theater Prize 2025. The prize, which was founded by Karl-Michael Ebner in 2012, honors outstanding achievements in operas and theaters as well as music festivals in Austria. The nominations include a total of 63 submissions in 15 categories, with the Linz State Theater leading the way with five nominations. The Vienna State Opera, the Volksoper, the Graz Opera and the Klagenfurt City Theater also showed strong support with four nominations each. This is reported by the Small newspaper.
The nominations and ultimate winners are determined by a media jury. The categories range from “Best Opera Production” to “Best Newcomer”. Impressive works are nominated in the “Best Opera Production” category, including “The Idiot,” “Il canto s’attrista, perché?” and “The Love of Three Oranges”. Dramatic works such as “Schwanda, the Bagpiper” are also in the running.
Categories and nominees
A look at the categories shows the diversity and wealth of the Austrian musical theater landscape. The following nominations can be found in the most important categories:
| category | nominees |
|---|---|
| Best Opera Production | “The Idiot”, “Il canto s’attrista, perché?”, “The Love of the Three Oranges”, “Schwanda, the Bagpiper” |
| Best operetta | “Venus in Silk”, “Mrs. Luna”, “Candide”, “To Golden Love” |
| Best musical production | “West Side Story”, “Rock me Amadeus”, “School of Rock”, “The Queens” |
| Best direction | Krzysztof Warlikowski, Lydia Steier, Tobias scratch, Jan Philipp Gloger |
| Best musical direction | Christian Thielemann, Petr Popelka, Nicholas Milton, Marin Alsop |
| Best Leading Role (Female) | Vera-Lotte Boecker, Lisette Oropesa, Katherine Broderick, Alexandra-Yoana Alexandrova |
| Best Leading Role (Male) | Georg Nigl, Matjaž Stopinšek, Sean Panikkar, Bogdan Volkov |
There are also nominations in the categories “Best Supporting Role (female and male)”, “Best Overall Production Opera, Operetta, Musical”, “Best Premiere/Premiere Performance”, “Best Off-Production”, “Best Sets”, “Best Overall Production Youth” and “Best Young Talent (female and male)”. The full list of nominations can be viewed on the official website musiktheaterpreis.at can be viewed.
An anniversary dedicated to musical theater
The gala for the awarding of the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2025 will take place on September 17, 2025 at 7 p.m. in the tent of the Circus Theater Roncalli on Heumarkt. To mark the 10th anniversary of the prize, a new illustrated book is being published that captures important personalities and moments from recent years. The illustrated book, the proceeds of which will benefit independent music theater productions that have been financially burdened during the pandemic, costs 29.90 euros. In addition, to celebrate the anniversary, an exquisite statuette will be made depicting a feather and a panpipe with seven pipes - a symbol of the panpipe from Mozart's "Magic Flute" and the traditional flame technique, which is considered a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.