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The best seats in the great music cities.
Mozart in Vienna’s golden halls, Vivaldi by candlelight in Venice, Fado in Porto, opera under the Sydney sails. Real reviews of the concerts worth travelling for, in the cities where the music is the reason to go.
Worth the trip for the music alone
Three cities you go to for the concert.
Some places you visit for the sights. Vienna, Venice and Salzburg you visit for the evening performance: the golden hall, the opera house, the candlelit chamber concert. These are the cities audiences plan a whole trip around.
Austria
Vienna
No city wears its music more openly. Mozart and Strauss play nightly in the Musikverein's Golden Hall, in the mirrored rooms of Schonbrunn, under the dome of the Karlskirche and inside St Stephen's. Players take the stage in period dress and the programmes are the ones the city wrote. If you only chase one sound across a trip, start here.
- 1 Vienna: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Concert in Karlskirche
- 2 Vienna: Mozart Concert at the Golden Hall
- 3 Vienna: Classical Concert in St. Anne’s Church (Annakirche)
Italy
Venice
Venice keeps two great traditions a short walk apart. At La Fenice, one of the world's most beautiful opera houses reopens its gilded boxes night after night. Across the water, ensembles like the Interpreti Veneziani play Vivaldi's Four Seasons by candlelight in the churches it was written for. Few evenings anywhere feel this much of their place.
- 1 Venice: La Fenice Opera House Entry Ticket with Audio Guide
- 2 Venice: Interpreti Veneziani Concert at Church of San Vidal
- 3 Venice: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Live Classical Music Concert
Austria
Salzburg
Mozart's home town plays him beautifully. Candlelit chamber concerts fill the marble Mirabell Palace where the young composer himself performed, and a fortress dinner-concert sends the music out over the rooftops. A compact city where the programmes, the rooms and the history all line up.
- 1 Salzburg: Mozart Concert at Mirabell Palace
- 2 Salzburg: Best of Mozart Fortress Concert and Dinner
- 3 Salzburg: Mozart Concert with Dinner
If you only book one seat
The concert more audiences rave about than any other.
Out of every performance on the site, this is the one people come home telling everyone they know to book.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Concerts Right Now
Vivaldi in a Vienna church, the Four Seasons by candlelight in Venice, Mozart at Mirabell, Fado in Porto. The seats audiences are happiest they booked.
Start with a city
The best concerts, city by city.
Vienna for the golden-hall classics, Venice for the opera house, Salzburg for Mozart, Porto for Fado. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the concerts worth booking there.
Where the music is
Three corners of Europe worth the trip.
Start with the sound you came for. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a different kind of evening waiting at the end of it.
Vienna
The city that plays itself every night.
Vienna keeps Mozart and Strauss on stage the way other cities keep the lights on. The Musikverein’s Golden Hall, the mirrored salons of Schonbrunn, a string quartet under the dome of the Karlskirche, players in period dress. Whatever night you arrive, the programme is the one the city is famous for.
See the best Vienna concerts →Venice
Opera house and candlelight, a bridge apart.
Few cities hold two great traditions this close. At La Fenice, one of the world’s most beautiful opera houses raises the curtain on its gilded boxes night after night. Across a canal or two, ensembles play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by candlelight in the churches it was written for. Pick the grand night or the intimate one, or both.
See the best Venice concerts →Porto
Fado, a glass of port, and the saddest songs you’ll love.
Porto sings its homesickness out loud. In small rooms over the river, a guitarra and a single voice carry Fado the way the city has for generations, usually with a glass of tawny port in your hand. An evening here is the most Portuguese sound there is, and a side of the city a day-tripper never hears.
See the best Porto concerts →Mozart’s home town
Mozart, in the rooms he grew up playing.
Salzburg plays its most famous son the way no other city can. Candlelit chamber concerts fill the marble hall of Mirabell Palace, where the boy Mozart himself performed, and a fortress dinner-concert high above the rooftops turns an evening into the whole reason to come. Small city, perfect acoustics, the programmes that belong here.
- 1 Salzburg: Mozart Concert at Mirabell Palace
- 2 Salzburg: Best of Mozart Fortress Concert and Dinner
- 3 Salzburg: Mozart Concert with Dinner
By the evening
What kind of night are you after?
A candlelit recital in a Prague chapel. A grand gala in Vienna’s gold room. The Sydney Opera House lit up over the harbour. Pick the evening that sounds like your kind of concert.
An intimate night
Prague, by candlelight.A small ensemble in the Mirror Chapel or a baroque hall, close enough to hear the bow leave the string. Vivaldi, Mozart and Bach in rooms built for exactly this, an hour that feels like a private concert.
A grand-hall gala
Vienna, in the gold room.Mozart and Strauss in the Musikverein's Golden Hall or the mirrored salons of Schonbrunn, players in period dress, the city's whole musical history in one evening. The night Vienna is famous for.
The icon, lit up
Sydney, under the sails.A performance or a guided walk inside the Opera House, the harbour glittering through the glass and the building itself the headline act. The bucket-list night that needs no introduction.
Prague
The rooms were built for this sound.
Prague is a city of small, perfect rooms: the gilded Mirror Chapel of the Clementinum, baroque halls and church naves where a string quartet or an organ fills the space exactly as the architects intended. Vivaldi, Mozart and Bach played a few metres from your seat, plus a jazz club or two for after. An evening here feels less like attending a concert than being inside one.
See all 21 Prague concerts →By city
Pick a city and find your seat.
Vienna for the golden halls. Venice for the opera house. Salzburg for Mozart. Prague for the candlelit chapels. Budapest for the great organs. Porto for Fado.
More cities
More cities worth a night at the concert.
Rome for the great basilicas, Verona for opera in a Roman arena, Krakow and Warsaw for Chopin in his own country, Paris for the recital halls. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
A perfect music weekend
Three cities, one unforgettable run of nights.
Vienna for the grand opening, Salzburg for Mozart at the source, Prague to finish by candlelight. A short hop across Central Europe, an evening performance waiting in each.
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