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Streaming Release: DIE WEISSE ROSE
After its CD release, the cast recording of the musical DIE WEISSE ROSE is finally also available on streaming platforms.
Stream the music of the award-winning show now , for example here.
50th Anniversary of His Death
Anton Profes (1896–1976)
22 August 2026 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Anton Profes (1896–1976). Profes, who initially worked as a conductor and successful songwriter, went on to write music for more than one hundred sound films from the 1930s onwards. Today, his name is particularly associated with the soundtrack to the legendary Sissi trilogy starring Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm: Sissi (1955), Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi – The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957).
Anton Profes’s compositions continue to be performed in concert halls today. In 2015, Paul Hertel compiled and arranged the 55-minute SISI: The Movie Trilogy Suite for large orchestra, based on Profes’s original film music. Published by Josef Weinberger, the suite brings the world-famous melodies from the Sissi films back to life in a concert setting. In this way, the work connects two generations of Austrian composers and allows Anton Profes’s music to continue to resonate 50 years after his death.
Find out more about SISI: The Movie Trilogy Suite here.
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LETTERS FROM RUTH "Best Production of a Musical"
The chamber musical by Aksel-Otto Bull and Gisle Kverndokk received the 14th Austrian Music Theater Award last Tuesday for best musical production, as presented by the Vienna Chamber Opera.
It tells the story of a young Jewish girl who flees from Vienna to Norway in 1939 to escape the Nazis and live in freedom there — until Norway, too, is occupied.
This powerful musical is based on Ruth Maier’s real diaries, letters and drawings, which bear witness to her unbridled zest for life.
Read the report on the winners of the 14th Austrian Music Theater Award here