Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.

Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, the great heartbreaker of fin de sie{grv}cle Vienna, was stunning, smart, moderately unbalanced and phenomenally successful when it came to bedding famous men. She slept ...

Nearly 100 years ago Walter Gropius divorced from Alma Mahler, the Viennese musician married to the academy’s famed founder during the planning stages of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus, an influential avant ...

Bruce Beresford’s “Bride of the Wind” is a resolutely conventional biographical drama of a most unconventional woman, Alma Mahler. She was a Viennese beauty at the turn of the 20th century who set her ...

The swirling vortex of art, sex, psychology and dissolving taboos that defined fin de siecle Vienna has been rendered flat and flavorless in "Bride of the Wind," a distinctly unimaginative account of ...

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler. By Cate Haste.Bloomsbury; 486 pages; £26. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $32. ALMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of ...

German philosopher and social critic Teodor Adorno called her a “monster.” Composer Richard Strauss saw in her “the inferiority complexes of a dissolute female.” A Viennese acquaintance, Gina Kaus, ...

The Spokane Symphony will open their new season celebrating 80 years by giving the audience a window into a classical love triangle for the ages, as well as the music of a composer that was silenced.

From March 20 to June 22, 2025, Museum Folkwang is dedicating an exhibition to two great figures in art history: Oskar Kokoschka, pioneer of expressionism, and Alma Mahler, composer, hostess of ...

Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, who married and bedded a string of the 20th century’s most creative geniuses, is celebrating her 125th birthday — and what a party it’s going to be. For the occasion, ...

On the second page of “Passionate Spirit,” the English biographer Cate Haste runs up her flag: “I like Alma Mahler,” she declares. This statement places the author in direct contradiction to three ...