Opera & Champagne – All the Bar’s a StageEdited by Madelyn Miller, the travelLady
The bar almost strikes you as being a modern stage set with its red theater box, grand piano, mirrored walls, violin-shaped bar, original record covers and over 120 autographed opera-legend .
La Divina More music bars in Vienna: Great Guidebooks Rick Steve’s Germany & Austria 2005 Madelyn Miller is a food and wine writer who contributes regularly to seven online publications that get over 7 million hits a month. Read her work on www.travellady.com, www.chocolateatlas.com, www.cocktailatlas.com, www.carladynews.com, and www.teaATlas.com. She is co-founder of the Food and Travel Atlas Group. photo credit: Austrian Tourist Office |
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If getting hold of opera tickets has eluded you, paying a visit to “La Divina” bar is some consolation. Here you can sip your drinks in a recreated Vienna State Opera box, while viewing a film version of the current opera showing on a gold-encased wide screen. Every evening you can enjoy the respective opera, ballet or jazz performance, while on Thursdays young talent delivers live music. 
It will come as no surprise that the mastermind behind the furnishings and fittings was none less than the Opera House’s stage set director. However the idea and the autographed come from Marianne Kohn. The legendary gastronome has reigned as Vienna’s queen of nightlife for over a quarter of a century. A devote opera lover, “La Divina” was her memorial to the great Maria Callas and the fulfillment of a life dream. As a young girl, Kohn regularly bought standing tickets for evening performances at the Vienna State Opera.
