Imaginatively styled guests and VIPs stroll from 20.00 clock on the Red Carpet, the
the first time this year by the Burgtheater extends to City Hall. Only those guests in the
appear on right, have exceptional styling to 21.45 clock
Coming from the ring road - - via the main entrance at the entrance to Town Hall Square
Ball site. An access road for costumed guests on the ring road is blocked off to
21.30 clock possible.
Life Ball Fanfare - 22.00 clock
As in previous years, the official opening of the Life Ball
the traditional fanfare - for the Life Ball composed by Béla Fischer - initiated.
ORF1 is at the beginning of the transmission clock at 21.45, delayed by 3sat. Heuer have
the first time T-Mobile customers the ability to broadcast live the Life Ball
Opening on the phone to receive free of charge.
Orchestra Life Ball 2010: Vienna Ensemble under the direction of sound Azis Sadikovic
and the Vienna Philharmonic Choir under the direction of Professor Walter toe.
A Midsummer Night begins
"Dance of the Clowns" by Felix Mendelssohn Batholdy
For excerpts from Felix Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream and recited Batholdys
Verse of Shakespeare dances Mihail Sosnovschi, principal dancer of the Vienna State Opera,
the soprano Mojca Erdmann in Vöslauer flower cars meet. Concept
and the idea come from Andreas Lackner (Lila). This is accompanied by the
BalletttänzInnen ballet ensemble of the St. Pölten and the vienna waltz project
based on the choreography by Christian Tichy.
Ball opening black and white - collect the Life Ball debutantes
"Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn Batholdy
Were several hundreds of applications this year, 100 young women and
Young men's pairs of Alamande Belfor and Prof. Dkfm. Thomas Schaefer-Elmayer
cast for the Life Ball opening. The elaborate choreography takes already
For the second time Thomas Schaefer-Elmayer. The black and white effect is in accordance with
This time the ball tradition taken very literally open 50 pairs of dark-skinned
in white tuxedos and white dresses of Peppino Teuschler Sportalm, 50
light-skinned black couples in tuxedos and black dresses by Sportalm.
The invitation to the Life Ball audience is: "All life!" - Instead of "Alles Walzer".
Life Ball event as a prelude to AIDS2010
Words of welcome by Dr. Julio Montaner (President of the International AIDS Society)
and Gery Keszler (Life Ball organizer and chairman of LIFE AIDS)
Welcome by the Mayor
Host and current Mayor Michael Häupl, accompanied by Klaus
Wowereit, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, welcomed the guests and the Life Ball
the guest of Vienna.
Mother wakes the world
Farstrider Wotan, bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny awakened the sleeping
Erda, Whoopi Goldberg, and invites them to a prophecy about the future of the earth.
Music: Siegfried by Richard Wagner Text version of the Life Ball: Sonja Minar (DDB Vienna)
and Martin Gellner (Beat4Feet)