Neujahrskonzert 2026 / New Year's Concert 2026 / Concert du Nouvel An 2026

Description

For the first time, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert. The Canadian conductor, long and closely associated with the orchestra, is the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, alongside popular pieces such as "Roses from the South" and the "Die Fledermaus Quadrille," he will present five new works performed there for the first time – including compositions by American Florence Price (1887–1953) and Josephine Weinlich (1848–1887), founder of Europe's first all-female orchestra. The New Year's Concert is one of the biggest events in classical music; it is broadcast in over 150 countries and reaches more than 150 million viewers. The Vienna New Year's Concert has been a major event for over eight decades: since 1939, it has been broadcast on television and radio, reaching millions of viewers in over 90 countries worldwide. The concert has so far been conducted by world-renowned masters such as Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Möst, Gustavo Dudamel, and many others. As musical ambassadors of Austria, the Wiener Philharmoniker send their New Year's greetings to the whole world, conveying hope, friendship, and peace – through music that is at once joyful and light-hearted, yet also nostalgic and profound, drawn from the great repertoire of the Strauss family and their contemporaries.