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Candlelit Schubert: Winterreise

Friday 27 November 2026 Salon Rosenthal

WhenFriday 27 November 202620:00 – 21:15 CET
WhereSalon RosenthalVienna, Austria
Entry€19–€68140 spots left

About this event

Twenty-four songs of a winter journey, sung by baritone and piano in a mirrored salon lit by four hundred candles. Seventy-five minutes, no interval, and no applause between songs: the cycle is meant to be heard as one long walk through the snow.

Salon Rosenthal sits on the first floor of an old town house off Singerstraße. The mirrors double every flame, the parquet creaks in the right places and the piano lid stays half open so the voice carries over it, never under it. Doors open at 7:30 pm with a glass of Grüner Veltliner in the anteroom; latecomers wait until the fifth song.

Three ways in. Parterre seats sit three rows from the piano. Balcony seats look down over the candles. Standing places line the back wall, the cheapest way to be in the room. Coats go to the cloakroom, phones go dark.

Schedule

2 sessions

Friday 27 November

  1. 20:30 21:00

    Doors and Gru00fcner Veltliner in the anteroom

    Anteroom

  2. 21:00 22:15

    Winterreise, songs 1u201324

    Lukas Arnsdorf, Henrike Valtl Mirrored salon

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Speakers

  • Lukas Arnsdorf

    Baritone

    Winterreise, D 911

    Sings the full cycle from memory, with a dark, unforced middle voice suited to the late songs.

  • Henrike Valtl

    Piano

    Winterreise, D 911

    Plays a restored 1890s Viennese grand and treats the piano part as the second narrator.

Location

Salon Rosenthal

Salon Rosenthal, Singerstraße, Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria