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In the "GOODGOODS - from experiment to mass production" project, students developed a product together with detailed instructions that show the production process broken down into individual steps and can therefore be mass produced - even by someone else.

As a play, La Folle journée by the scandalous author Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais was banned in Vienna. However, Mozart and Da Ponte were able to suggest to Emperor Joseph II that the genre of opera would defuse the revolutionarily objectionable text and were thus commissioned to compose and write the libretto. The question of whether they did not in fact intensify the play in other ways is one that is posed anew in every production. With Le nozze di Figaro, Gernot Sahler and Alexander von Pfeil's opera class continued their Da Ponte cycle, which began with Così fan tutte in May 2023.

Masterclasses, concerts, operettas, contemporary composition and much more between Salzburg, Bad Ischl and Siena: an exciting academy summer awaits at the Mozarteum University!

Our loyal alumnus, passionate musician (oboist) and pedagogue Wolfgang Billeb passed away in June 2024. In his memory, we would like to publish his memories of his studies at the Mozarteum University once again. The interview was conducted with Ilse Tiebert in 2014 on the occasion of the celebration with his fellow students to mark the 60th anniversary of his graduation from the Mozarteum in June 1954 as part of the "Narrated History" programme of the Art Archive Room.

The student of the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University Giulia Giammona won the prize of the 20th Festival Körber Studio Junge Regie with her production "Penelope" yesterday on 9 June 2024. We congratulate her warmly!

After their first concert at the end of May, musical director Kai Röhrig and flautist Leona Rajakowitsch, founding members of the newly formed ensemble for contemporary music at the Mozarteum University, and composer Anna Skladannaya reflect on the potential and significance of new music - with a view to more to come.

The Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University recently moved into premises at Franz-Josef-Straße 18 that were once occupied by the Austrian National Bank. An interview with Prof. Claudia Lehmann, who has headed the institute since 2023.

Writer, literary and cultural scholar and university lecturer Thomas Ballhausen has been head of the Inter-University Centre for Science & Art since October 2023. A conversation about his new role at the "interface".

The Applied Theatre Master's programme at Mozarteum University celebrates its 5th birthday. A look back and ahead with Prof. Ulrike Hatzer, who has headed the programme since 2019.

First Mozarteum Rapid Chess Tournament: On 7 June 2024, instead of music, singing, exhibitions, speech, performance and other art, the foyer of the Mozarteum University was filled for the first time with a total of 10 chess boards and many concentrated chess enthusiasts.