On December 7, 2024, the Vienna State Opera will open its second venue: a music theater for children, teenagers, young adults and families. the theater will be called "NEST", an abbreviation for "Neue Staatsoper".

After numerous efforts to offer the young audience adequate space, for example with a tent on the terrace, a rented basement theater or our touring opera in the intermission rooms of the Vienna State Opera, a suitable location has now been found in the Künstlerhaus on Karlsplatz. After extensive renovation work, a theater with 248 seats, an orchestra pit and a laced floor has been created there in recent years.

At NEST you can expect world premieres of children's and youth operas and ballet, concerts, quiz shows, more experimental productions, discussion events, creative introductions to works and a wide variety of workshops to take part in. The new venue is also the place where our young artistic collectives - the opera school, the opera studio and the ballet academy - find opportunities to perform. In the very first season, there will be around 100 events on stage and 80 workshop dates planned in the second venue.

You can already discover the entire program and much more at nest.at and in our NEST season booklet.