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Vienna Opera House The actress Mira Sorvino at the opera ball (2013). The Vienna Opera Ball (German: Wiener Opernball) is an annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday (a religious holiday).
Most balls are formal events where dancers wear a gown, tuxedo, or formal traditional Austrian dress. Traditional balls such as the Vienna Opera Ball open with debutantes performing a polonaise, followed by a choreographed waltz such as the viennese waltz. [2]
White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.
The Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper, IPA: [ˈviːnɐ ˈʃtaːtsˌʔoːpɐ]) is a historic opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road .
Evening gloves or opera gloves are a type of formal glove that reaches beyond the elbow worn by women. Women's gloves for formal and semi-formal wear come in three lengths for women: wrist , elbow , and opera or full-length (over the elbow, usually reaching to the biceps but sometimes to the full length of the arm).
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An opera cloak is an ankle- or floor-length loose-fitting cloak of dark, luxurious fabric such as velvet, brocade or satin, to be worn over an evening gown for a woman or a man's white tie or black tie tuxedo, named after its typical designation for the opera. [1]
Ariana Grande, Nicole Kidman, and Michelle Yeoh all made stylish appearances at the annual awards show, held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.