Without the traditional concert from Vienna what New Year’s Eve would it be? Comfortably sitting in their living room after the night’s efforts, millions of spectators will attend the Wiener Philharmoniker concert tomorrow from the all-gold and stucco hall of the Musikverein, broadcast live on television in almost 100 countries, with Riccardo Muti on his seventh time on the podium: a cycle that the Neapolitan master began in 1994 and which saw him as the protagonist of memorable editions.
The program of the 2025 New Year’s concert is doubly special, because it will not only offer a tribute to the timeless, sparkling repertoire of Viennese music, and in particular to Johann Strauss the son, the most famous of the Strauss family, on the bicentenary of his birth; but, for the first time ever, it will give space to the work of a female composer, with Constanze Geiger’s “Ferdinandus Walzer”, performed for the first time in 1848 and then long forgotten. A very beautiful piece with great personality, according to Muti, written by the author when she was only 12 years old. The news seemed sensational to many, a historic step, considering that the Wieners have only admitted women into their ranks since 1997.
It will also be possible to follow the concert live on TV Capodistria with commentary in Italian by Luisa Antoni starting from 11.15am. In Italy, Rai will broadcast it on a deferred basis to allow live coverage of the New Year’s Eve concert at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice: now in its 22nd edition, it is directed this year by the Englishman Daniel Harding with the voices of Mariangela Sicilia and Francesco Demuro , and a program featuring music by Beethoven, Verdi and Puccini.
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