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MARLENE HENGSTBERGER is a freelance dancer and dance teacher.
Born in Lower Austria, she began her dance career with ballet lessons. In the years that followed, she regularly trained in different styles such as contemporary, jazz dance, hip hop and commercial styles, attended numerous workshops and also received lessons in several instruments and singing.
After training as a dance teacher at the KKTP in Vienna, she continued her dance and artistic training in Berlin. Since then she has appeared as a versatile dancer in various shows and performances in Austria and Europe.
This summer, we will be playing in the very center of the city, at the newly created OPERNARENA AM HEUMARKT, featuring the beautiful side façade of the Vienna Konzerthaus as the stage background, which will also be used for the impressive light projections.
For our second season, taking place from 1st to 19th July 2025, we will perform one of the most glorious Italian operas, La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. In our production, you can experience the reborn composer as narrator between the fantastic music, as played by the Austrian Oscar-awarded actor Karl Markovics. He will explain the insights of the touching story of Violetta, the terminally ill courtesan with the noblest of all souls. In this way, we can create a new opera experience that will delight both connoisseurs and newcomers alike, while the music sounds true to the original. And of course we will have English subtitles!