"If music be the food of love...": Culinary highlights of the Vienna Opera Ball

"If music be the food of love, play on!" says the very first scene of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". It may not be an opera, but it is a fact that musical and epicurean enjoyment work best together, soaring to almost ecstatic heights; this was already well known by the English poet. Especially in a culinary stronghold with an affinity for culture like Vienna, prestigious events give rise to great expectations - and what could be more prestigious than the Opera Ball? Together with renowned artists from the opera scene, exquisite couture from Austria (this year by Alexandra Gogolok-Nagl from Vienna, Maiken Kloser from Vorarlberg and Marlen Sabetzer from Styria) and the traditional media hustle and bustle, food and drink play first fiddle here.