The world's most famous classical music event.

On January 1, 2025, Maestro Riccardo Muti will take the stage to conduct the New Year's Concert for the seventh time, in Vienna's world-renowned Golden Hall of the Musikverein. This occasion will celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II. The live recording of the 2025 New Year's Concert will be available digitally on January 10, on CD on January 17, and on vinyl, DVD, and Blu-ray on January 24. All formats are now available for pre-order.

There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with such anticipation as the New Year's Concert. It will be broadcast to over 90 countries worldwide, reaching millions of people. The program will feature a repertoire from the Strauss family and their contemporaries, with a unique addition: for the first time, a work by a female composer, a friend of Johann Strauss II, will be performed. The Ferdinandus - Walzer, composed by twelve-year-old Constanze Geiger in 1848, will be part of this year's program.

The artistic collaboration with Maestro Muti, which began in 1971, has resulted in over 500 mutual concerts, including six New Year's Concerts, Philharmonic subscription concerts, commemorative concerts, guest performances and tours, as well as numerous opera productions. A special highlight of the 2024 season will be the celebratory concert for the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Muti's baton.