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Query: Who designed the Vienna State Opera House?
The opera house was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstrasse commissioned by the Viennese "city expansion fund". Work commenced on the house in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style by the renowned Czech architect and contractor Josef Hlávka.
Outside of the USA, Scappucci made her UK debut as an opera conductor with Scottish Opera in October 2013. At the Vienna State Opera, Scappucci was the fourth-ever female conductor, and the first female Italian conductor, to conduct a production at the Vienna State Opera, for her house debut as conductor in November 2016. In February 2017, she was the first female conductor to direct the orchestra in the annual Vienna Opera Ball, as an emergency substitute for an indisposed Semyon Bychkov. 
At the age of 22 he was discovered by Claudio Abbado who chose him to play the role of Ferrando in Mozart's "Così fan tutte". He collaborates with the most prestigious theaters and musical institutions in the world as: Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Berlin State Opera and Deutsche Oper, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Musikverein, Bayerische Rundfunks in Munich, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
His productions were seen in all the major international houses: Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival. the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, La Scala, Milan, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera New York City, San Francisco Opera, Victoria State Opera, and Opera Australia.
In 1906, the company provided the Vienna State Opera with stage equipment. Forty years later, the company rebuilt the opera house's roof. Other roof projects include Vienna's Stephansdom in 1948, the Munich Olympic facilities in 1969, the Prater Stadium in Vienna in 1985, and the Reichstag dome in Berlin, for which the company won a European Steel Design award in 1999. Waagner-Biro won another award in 2003 for the British Museum's Queen Elizabeth II Great Court.
Pyant's extensive opera credits include lighting designs for the premiere of "The Minotaur" (1990). From 1974 to 1987 he worked with Glyndebourne Opera, where he later designed lighting for Sir Peter Hall's productions of "Le Nozze di Figaro", "Falstaff" and "New Year", as well as Stephen Lawless's production of "Death in Venice", among others. Since 1985, he has designed productions for the English National Opera (ENO). Early designs for ENO included "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" in 1987, Handel's "Xerxes" and "Carmen" in 1988, "Lear", "Falstaff" and "Street Scene" the next year. Later, he designed for them "Orfeo ed Euridice" (2001) and others. His designs have also been seen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Vienna Volksoper, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala, Milan; Opera de Monte Carlo, the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg and elsewhere. He has designed ten productions for the Houston Grand Opera, including "Rigoletto" and most recently Handel’s "Xerxes" in 2010. 
Beyond Glyndebourne, Pritchard appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at Edinburgh in 1952 (deputising for Ernest Ansermet, who was ill). He made his début at the Royal Opera House in 1951 and at the Vienna State Opera in 1952. He appeared regularly with the Vienna Symphony (1953–55).
Pizzi has worked in major houses including La Scala, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Arena di Verona, as well as the opera houses in Florence, Naples, Palermo, Parma, and the Teatro la Fenice in Venice. He has created numerous productions for the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he has had a working relationship for several decades.
Franca Squarciapino (born 1940) is an Italian costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for "Cyrano de Bergerac". She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others.
In Europe, Blankenship sang roles at the opera houses in Vienna (Vienna Volksoper & Vienna State Opera), Stuttgart, Hamburg, Braunschweig (1957–60), Bern (1960), Mannheim, Brunswick, Munich (from 1965), Berne, (1956 European debut), Bregenz (1972 as Phoebus in "The Fairy-Queen" by Henry Purcell). In the United States, he sang with the Santa Fe Opera, San Antonio, San Diego (1968), Dallas Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. He has sung in international festivals in Moscow, Salzburg, Vienna, Munich, and Rio de Janeiro. He performed concerts with major orchestras on radio and television.
The Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper) is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper). In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian Republic, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.
Major music venues in Vienna include the State Opera House, the People's Opera House, the Burgtheater, and the Theater an der Wien, the former three of which are owned by the federal government .
Traian Grozăvescu (21 November 1895 – 14 February 1927) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian operatic tenor. Born in Lugoj, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I. In 1922, following a disagreement with the Cluj Opera, he left for Vienna and sang at the Vienna State Opera, as well as at the Hungarian State Opera House and the Berlin State Opera, achieving great success.
Michael Levine (born 6 November 1961) is a Canadian set designer. He is best known for his work in opera, including the scenic design for the Canadian Opera Company's 2006 production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, directed by Atom Egoyan. Levine has also designed productions for Theatre Passe Muraille, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna State Opera, English National Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Dutch National Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, and the National Theatre.
Ludwig Hofmann (14 January 1895 in Frankfurt am Main – 28 December 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German opera singer (bass), who from the late 1920s obtained worldwide recognition above all as an exponent of Wagnerian roles. He worked principally in the opera houses in Berlin and Vienna and in the Vienna State Opera, and from 1928 to 1942 was frequently involved in the Bayreuth Festivals.
Wagner's other theatrical work ranges from off-Broadway and regional theatre productions to ballet and opera, including sets for the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and the New York City Ballet. 
Wagner has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design six times out of eleven nominations and the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design three times out of ten nominations.
A number of musicians from famous Viennese orchestras and ensembles collaborate with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra as soloists and conductors, among them members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony orchestras. In addition, singers from world-famous opera houses, principally from the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Volksoper, perform with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra.
Gallardo-Domâs' many Puccini performances include: "Turandot" and "Madama Butterfly" at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Royal Opera House; "La bohème" at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Paris Opéra; "Manon Lescaut" at the Zurich Opera and Los Angeles Opera; "Simon Boccanegra (by Verdi)" at Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; and "Suor Angelica" at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Teatro Colón. 
Opera houses such as the Valencia Opera House, the National Noh Theatre in Tokyo, the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Royal Opera House in London and the Teatro degli Arcimboldi and La Scala (both in Milan) have added the electronic titles, the latter providing English and Italian translations in addition to the original language of the opera.
In spring 2004, Crider celebrated an important role debut as Imogene in Bellini's "Il pirata" at the Vlaamse Opera. Other highlights of the season were her Carnegie Hall debut in March 2004 in "Un ballo in maschera", her return to the Vienna State Opera House as Aida, and gala concerts in the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and Wiesbaden. In 2004/2005, Crider sang her signature role of Aida at the Staatsoper Berlin, followed by house debuts at La Monnaie in Brussels, the Los Angeles Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, and at the Savonlinna Festival. Further highlights of the season were performances as Tosca at the Vienna State Opera and Amelia in "Un ballo in maschera" and Tosca at the Zurich Opera House.
During the first decade of the 20th century, Urlus made a series of debuts in different European cities. They included: Berlin (the Berlin State Opera); Prague; Vienna (the Vienna State Opera); Munich (the Bavarian State Opera); Stuttgart; Dresden (the Dresden Opera); Frankfurt; and, lastly, London (the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he sang in 1910 and 1914).
Marco Arturo Marelli (born 21 August 1949) is a Swiss set designer and stage director who has worked at European opera houses for opera and ballet. He designed sets for ballets by John Neumeier, and for premieres of the operas "Thomas Chatterton" by Matthias Pintscher at the Semperoper in Dresden (1998) and "Medea" by Aribert Reimann at the Vienna State Opera (2010). 
Canonero has also designed the costumes for several stagings directed by Otto Schenk, such as "Il trittico" (Puccini, Vienna State Opera 1979), "As You Like It" (Shakespeare, Salzburg Festival 1980), "Die Fledermaus" (Strauss, Vienna State Opera 1980), "Andrea Chénier" (Giordano, Vienna State Opera 1981), and "Arabella" (Strauss, Metropolitan Opera 1983). For director Luc Bondy she created the costumes for new productions of Puccini's "Tosca" (Metropolitan Opera, 2009), and of Euripides' "Helena" (Burgtheater, Vienna, 2010).
With the 1978 production of Luigi Nono’s "Al gran sole carico d’amore" in Frankfurt, Flimm for the first time emerged as an opera director. Three years later, the production of Jacques Offenbach's "Les contes d'Hoffmann" followed at the Hamburg State Opera, and in 1990 "Così fan tutte" was performed in Amsterdam. For the latter production, Flimm co-operated for the first time with the Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who became his most important artistic partner. During the last years, Flimm has produced works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Gounod, Stravinsky, Franz Schreker and others at La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Berlin State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Hamburg State Opera. In summer 2000, he staged a new version of Wagner's "Ring" for the Bayreuth Festival, and in June 2002, he was responsible for the scenic realisation of the world premiere of "Der Riese vom Steinfeld" by Friedrich Cerha at the Vienna State Opera.
In 1842 the Skarbek Theatre was opened making it the third largest theatre in Central Europe. In 1903 the Lviv National Opera house, which at that time was called the City-Theatre, was opened emulating the Vienna State Opera house. The house initially offered a changing repertoire such as classical dramas in German and Polish language, opera, operetta, comedy and theatre.
The opera house is named after the Ukrainian opera diva Salomea Krushelnytska who worked here.