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Opera Ball 2023: Event planner Maryam Yeganehfar on her Visions for the Event of the Year

After a two-year pandemic break, the Viennese Opera Ball is reinventing itself a bit. For the first time, there will be a big focus on the charity aspect, which will help people in need ("Österreich hilft Österreich", translates to "Austria helps Austria"). To ensure that the ball sparkles on February 16, the well-known Viennese event planner and designer Maryam Yeganehfar is pulling the strings. L'Officiel Austria spoke with her.

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Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky: A mysterious love story

The spark between one of the greatest musical masterminds and the greatest fashion designer of the 20th century - did it happen? Film and literature have come up with their very own thoughts.

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Genius & Madness: "My Life with Virginia Woolf"

"I don't think two people could have been happier than we were." This is the love story between Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

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"Childhood Memories": Pianist Donka Angacheva presents her most personal album

Donka Angacheva is one of Austria's best-known pianists. The virtuoso of Bulgarian descent is initiating a concert for her new album "Childhood Memories", which will be given only once in almost the original line-up from the studio. Among others, the well-known violinist Lidia Baich will take part.

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An art exhibition of a special kind: Bucherer New York x Leon Löwentraut

Some works of the young German artist Leon Löwentraut can currently be admired in the flagship store of the Swiss jewellery manufacturer Bucherer in New York City.

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An Immortal Love: Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenska - 150 Letters and Two Meetings

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer.

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"Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams"-Exhibition travels from Paris to Tokyo

After it´s success at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the exhibition Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams has been reinvented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from December 21, 2022 to May 28, 2023. A special event of unprecedented scope, celebrating more than ever the link between Dior and Japan.

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Rosehall House: Secret Home of Coco Chanel and Hugh Bendor Grosvenor

The home, which was once Ms Chanel's secret hideaway, is still full of luxury finds formerly owned by the fashion designer.

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Inspiring: What Museum Shops offer to Deliver to our Doorsteps

"Shall we go to the museum again?" - For many, it may not always be possible to indulge in the pleasures of art in their stressful everyday lives, but there is also online shopping for that art kick in between. We've had a look around!

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In Talk with Artist Bárbara Moura about the art of painting and her escapism

Feminism, politics and sexuality are just some of the themes that inspire Bárbara Moura's artwork. In a candid interview, the artist gives a closer look at her working process.

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THE FILTERED SELF: Petra von Kazinyan showed at Bucherer

It is no longer possible to imagine our everyday life without Instagram. The photo-sharing app, once an easily accessible photo album, has long since mutated into a representation platform where nothing is as it seems. The artist Petra von Kazinyan has now interpreted the theme in a socially critical way on canvas.

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"No Fake Amore": Billi Thanner's big Opening Night in Vienna

At the moment, the whole city is incessantly celebrating. At the latest when salonière and grande dame Nicole Adler invites to an opening, they all come: the young, the wise, the beautiful, the rich, the artists, the champagne ladies and even Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian Chancellor.

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Billi Thanner and Nicole Adler in Talk: "Art has to be seen!"

The power duo Nicole Adler and Billi Thanner are joining forces. They will stage a sensational exhibition (Symbols of the Future) at Palais Herberstein in November 2022.

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THE DIRECTOR: Francisco Navarro Lara at the Wiener Konzertverein

The Spanish maestro Francisco Navarro Lara takes the audience on a magical journey through the most beautiful works of symphony, opera and film music with the powerful-sounding concert evening "DER DIRIGENT". On 12 November 2022 he will take the Viennese audience on this.

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Music meets Arts: BEON1X Festival initiates Europe's largest art cluster

The sonorous BEON1X Open Mind Music Festival ended its two-week debut in Cyprus with a record number of 16,000 fans visiting the venue on the gorgeous beach of Larnaca. As the largest electronic music festival on an island and one of the biggest events this fall in Europe, the first stage of a unique international socio-cultural project was opened in Cyprus, which is expected to become one of the largest art clusters in the world.