Splendour, deception, role-playing, and a daring test of fidelity: With subtle wit, Richard Heuberger’s Der Opernball looks behind the façades of high society. At the Salon Zuckerkandl, director Moritz Franz Beichl, dramaturge Sophie Jira, and music director Jakob Lehmann discuss the new production by the Vienna Volksoper and the revised text version developed together with Andreas Kouba. The conversation is complemented by selected musical numbers from the operetta, performed with piano accompaniment.