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

Description

For the first time, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will take the baton at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. The Canadian conductor, long closely associated with the orchestra, is the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the golden hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, he will present, alongside popular pieces such as "Roses from the South" and the "Quadrille from Die Fledermaus," 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 women's orchestra. The New Year's Concert is one of the greatest 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 more than eight decades: since 1939, it has been broadcast on television and radio, reaching millions of viewers in over 90 countries around the world. The concert has so far been conducted by world-renowned maestros 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 Vienna Philharmonic send their New Year's wishes to the whole world under the sign of hope, friendship, and peace — through music that is both playful and carefree, but also nostalgic and profound, drawn from the great repertoire of the Strauss family and their contemporaries.