!!!Opernball

Opera Ball, official highlight of the Vienna ball season during 
Fasching (carnival). First held at the Vienna State Opera as a charity 
ball in 1936 ("Winterhilfswerk", a welfare scheme for the 
indigent during the winter months). After an 18-year interval (due to 
World War II and the destruction of the opera house), the Opera Ball 
has been held annually since 1956 (with the exception of 1991, when it 
was cancelled because of the Gulf War), and is traditionally attended 
by celebrities from political, business, and artistic life. Since1990 
the Opera Ball has repeatedly been the target of protest 
demonstrations against bourgois culture and its overt materialism.


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