From its 18th century roots, Vienna’s celebrated ball season has evolved and now involves teenagers learning to waltz by ...

The 160 debutantes at the 2025 Vienna Opera Ball wore Swarovski tiaras and their escorts wore Swarovski tie pins on their lapels ...

The aristocrats of the Habsburg royal court who danced in the first of Vienna’s famed balls in the 18th century could never have imagined how the hallmark of the Austrian capital’s social and ...

VIENNA (AP) — 3 parties agree to form a new Austrian government, 5 months after the country’s election.

Glamorous partygoers dazzled in white gowns and tuxedos for the opening ceremony of the Lawyers' Ball in Vienna on Saturday. At the height of the city's ball season, debutantes aged between 18 ...

Professional guilds throughout the city host their own events, like the Ball of the Viennese Chimney Sweeps that marks the opening of the season. The sparkling balls are deeply rooted in Viennese ...