Vienna Volksoper, Opera house in Vienna, Austria

Vienna Volksoper is Vienna's second-largest opera house, on Währingerstraße in the 9th district, Alsergrund. Its three tiers hold 1,261 seats, 72 standing places and two wheelchair spaces. The stage measures 17.2 by 19 metres and carries a turntable with a surrounding ring platform 15 metres across; the orchestra pit can be lowered 2.65 metres below stage level.

The Kaiserjubiläum-Stadttheater opened on 14 December 1898, built in ten months by Alexander Graf and Franz von Krauss for a civic theatre association; Emperor Franz Joseph stayed away. Director Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn began with 160,000 florins of debt, and the house went bankrupt in 1903. Rainer Simons took over on 1 September 1903, engaged Alexander Zemlinsky, and added opera and operetta; the first Viennese Tosca followed in 1907.

The house performs in German and stages around 300 shows of 25 productions each season, running from September to June. Its name, meaning "People's Opera", dates from Rainer Simons' 1903 takeover, when the playhouse added opera and operetta. Operetta remains central to the repertoire alongside opera, musicals and ballet.

The house stands on Währinger Straße in the 9th district, near the Währinger Straße-Volksoper U6 station. The auditorium has 1,261 seats, 72 standing places and two wheelchair spaces on three levels. The orchestra pit can be lowered up to 2.65 metres below stage level, and the stage measures 17.2 by 19 metres.

The building served as a filming location for a 1987 James Bond movie and represented a music conservatory in a different city on screen. Many visitors are unaware of this film connection despite its presence in cinema history.