Don't get scammed!…read more My fiancé and I went to visit the Vienna Opera house on our first day here and were greeted by men in costumes advertising a concert. We started discussing it with one of the guys and were led to believe it would be a performance similar to what we would see at the opera house, only held at a different venue. He showed us photos of beautiful stages, large theatres, multiple ensembles of ballet dancers and couples waltzing, and told us the price of the tickets (starting at €42). Once we arrived at the venue we saw this was actually a conference-type hall (albeit in a beautiful building), a 2 foot tall stage, uncomfortable banquet chairs all on one level, similar to what you would see in a high school orchestra concert. This makes the view from the back almost impossible. In reality, it was a small orchestra, 2 ballet dancers doing a couple moves on the very tiny makeshift stage directly in front of the orchestra, and two singers who only performed a couple times. During "intermission," they had glasses of champagne but no change for people to buy, and no sooner did you get your glass were the attendants snatching them away from you, rudely refusing to let you keep your glass and watch the second half of the show. We were even told to not buy the VIP tickets because the stage was too high in "orchestra" seating for us to see all the dancers! Absolutely abysmal. The only good part of this was that the musicians and performers were actually talented, it's just a shame their skills were completely clouded by the fact that everyone felt scammed and cheated. This is NOT worth all the money they charge.

The music was lovely, but the ticket sales are a scam. They show you a searing plan that is bot…read morelike where you will be sitting. They show you that you have certain seats, then after you purchase them, they tell you it is general admission with unassigned seating. We were told to get here 20 minutes early, no problem. It is a national holiday, and everything was very quiet. Well, we got there 20 minutes early, and it was almost full. Seats in the last row.