Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz, legendary ORF commentator of the Vienna Opera Ball, on the art of cultivated fooling around, whoops, waltzes and taboos.
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Jutta Czeguhn
After a two-year Corona break, Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz will again comment on the “Ball of Balls”, the Vienna Opera Ball, together with Karl Hohenlohe from the ORF chamber on February 16th. The actor, cabaret artist, author and chief dramaturge of the Vienna Volksoper has been doing this since 2001. He has immortalized his great knowledge of state waltz in a book entitled “Alles Walzer – der Opernball von A bis Z”. You can reach the ball connoisseur on the phone, he has just returned to Vienna from Munich, where he has been giving humorous and knowledgeable introductions at the Gärtnerplatztheater since 2012, and since this season he has also been employed there as a dramaturge. A conversation with Wagner-Trenkwitz about the secret of successful balls, whoops and taboos.