LIVE - Follow the Vienna New Year's Concert 2025

There could be no more fitting way to open the anniversary year for the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Son than with the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. On January 1, 2025, the orchestra will offer a varied program of works from the famous Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries for the 85th time.

For the seventh time, the Italian star conductor Riccardo Muti, who has a decades-long collaboration and friendship with the Vienna Philharmonic, will take over the musical direction of the New Year's Concert.

Here the Vienna New Year's Concert 2025 will be broadcast live

The ORF will again broadcast the New Year's Concert 2025 live from the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein - at 11.15 am on ORF 2 and Ö1 as well as on ORF ON. The traditional cultural event is considered the most broadcast concert event worldwide, which millions of people in almost 100 countries watch every year. The TV broadcast for the German-speaking countries will be commented live for the television audience by Teresa Vogl for the third time.

This time, two dance performances by the Vienna State Ballet were pre-produced at the end of summer, which will be broadcast during the TV concert broadcast to two special compositions - a polka and a waltz by Johann Strauss Son. During the concert break, the ORF film "2025 - A Strauss Odyssey" pays tribute to the musical regent of the year.

Live Broadcast at Stephansplatz and at the Winter Market on Riesenradplatz

The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will once again be broadcast live this year at Stephansplatz and the Winter Market on Riesenradplatz. From 11.15 am, visitors can enjoy the sounds of the world-famous orchestra under the open sky.

Vienna New Year's Concert 2025 to Watch in Retrospect

Those who miss the live broadcast of the Vienna New Year's Concert 2025 in the morning can experience the event three more times on ORF. Thus, ORF III Culture and Information offers the proven encore in the main evening program (8.15 pm) on January 1, preceded by the "Prelude to the New Year's Concert" (7.40 pm).

3sat presents the classical event on January 4 (8.15 pm). ORF 2 shows the high-profile cultural event again in the "matinee" on Epiphany, January 6 (10.00 am), and for tuning in beforehand, the so-called "intermission film" (9.05 am) as well as the making-of documentary, this time under the title "Behind the Scenes of the New Year's Concert" (9.30 am).

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