New Years Eve Concerts in Vienna 2023

New Years Eve concerts. There is hardly a better way to let 2023 float past in Vienna than with music. If you are not up to a violinist fiddling into your ear at an Austrian dinner show, you will find my list of the top six ‘Silvester’ classical concerts useful.

‘Silvesterkonzert‘ by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

New Years Eve Concerts. The most prestigious of all new years eve concerts in Vienna is the concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Like their widely broadcast New Year’s Concert, it is taking place in the sumptuous Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. This year, star conductor Christian Thielemann will conduct the Philharmonics.

Concert tickets are allocated through an online drawing between January and March of the same year. Find out how to get tickets for the New Year’s Eve Concert if you haven’t won the drawing.

New Years Eve Concert: Beethoven’s 9th

New Years Eve Concerts. This year, praised Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda will lead the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and the Vienna Singing Academy during their annual Beethoven no. 9 Symphony. 

Not only is this symphony one of Beethoven’s greatest works it also includes the European Hymn, which based on Schiller’s Ode To Joy. Since Beethoven finalised the Ninth in Vienna (1824) the European Hymn was born in Wien. As for the orchestra, the ‘Vienna Symphony’ is renown across the world and is the innovative force of classical music in Vienna. 

Date and Time: 30th and 31st December 2023; 1 January 2023; 7.00 pm (tbc)
Location: Wiener Konzerthaus, Lothringer Strasse, 1030;
Tickets: check available tickets

For an overview of what is on stage at the Vienna State Opera, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Volksoper, and Mozarthaus find out more in New Year’s Eve in Vienna 2023.

The Four Seasons

New Years Eve Concerts. If you want to remember ‘Le Quattro Stagioni’ as more than a type of pizza, head for  church St. Charles Borromeo (Karlskirche). On New Year’s Eve, Vivaldi’s baroque masterpiece ‘The Four Seasons’ will leave nature’s message of the year gone past, from tweeting birds and blossoming meadows to gentle breezes, and thunder and lightning.

In fact, after he composed the Four Seasons, Italian composer and master violinist Vivaldi moved in Vienna where he died in 1741. 

More than at any other church music venue, there is lots of eye candy in the splendid baroque interiors. On top, the concert will finish early enough for you to go and see the fireworks in town.
Date and Time: 31st December 2023
Location: Church St. Charles Borromeo
Bookings: get tickets (tbc)

Mozart And Strauss Gala

New Years Eve Concerts. With light and breezy classical music by Vienna’s top waltz and operetta composers you can float into the new year. Also, this is the kind of tunes that form part of our much loved Vienna New Year’s Concert. Predominantly, the Vienna Royal Orchestra will perform music and opera arias by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Johann Strauss, among them the famous aria ‘Wiener Blut’.

Interestingly, the concert venue is at one of Vienna’s oldest and prestigious secondary schools, the Akademisches Gymnasium. If the imposing neo-gothic Imperial concert hall reminds you of the Vienna’s City Hall, that is no coincidence. The buildings have the same architect. Since Mozart and Strauss concerts are so popular with travelers you won’t be the only tourist at this event.

Date and Time: 31st December 2023; 4.30 pm and 8.15 pm (tbc)
Location: Haus am Beethovenplatz (Akademisches Gymnasium), Beethovenplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Bookings: tbc

Schönbrunner Schlosskonzerte

New Years Eve Concerts.  Many visitors to Vienna dream of listening to classical music by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Vienna waltz kings Johann and Josef Strauss right at fairy tale Schonbrunn Palace. It is an impression of our culture that can hardly be confused with any other city or event.

The Schönbrunner Schlosskonzerte (Schonbrunn palace concerts) perfectly create these impressions at the palace’s historic orangery.

The concert series will also take place at New Year’s Eve, including two ballet dancers, a soprano and a baritone. You will listen to the best of Viennese classical and operetta music, such as ouvertures, duets and arias of Mozart operas The Magic Flute, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni, and Johann Strauss’ Danube Waltz and Radetzky March. An honest comment on the side: As with the Mozart and Strauss Gala, you will not be the only tourist there.
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