The Kursalon Hubner is here to assist you. It's a nice music hall located in downtown Vienna. Something like 200,000 people run through the place in a given year. You can see the patio on top of the columns in the photo, which is where patrons can spend intermission.
And I'd bet most of them were tourists. The cruise ships sell packages to come to see shows there. In our case, it featured Mozart and Strauss. We filed into one of the ballrooms; the facility was nice but it was very crowded on a hot August night. The 12-piece (a guess) orchestra handled its duties quite well, and some soloists were quite good too. The selections were generally popular favorites, including "The Blue Danube." Other songs were often in the public domain, which meant you probably would at least recognize them - perhaps from cartoons.
I suppose a visit to a bigger venue might be a more authentic experience, but for our tastes this was just fine. The video is essentially an ad for the program, but it does give you the chance to see the building:
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