2024-01-02 04:00:00
Time.news – On the podium of the Musikverein in Vienna a New Year’s Eve 2025 maestro Riccardo Muti will return. The Philharmonic of the Austrian capital announced this in a statement immediately after the end of this year’s concert, conducted by Christian Thielemann and broadcast live in over one hundred countries around the world.
Next year we celebrate the bicentenary of the “father of the waltz”, Johann Strauss Junior. “To commemorate this important anniversary, the Vienna Philharmonic has once again invited maestro Riccardo Muti to conduct the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Concert,” reads the note from the Philharmonic.
It will be the seventh time that the famous conductor Neapolitan, now 82 years old, will direct the famous waltz and polka concert in Vienna with which the Viennese Philharmonic traditionally sends its New Year greetings to the whole world: in fact it has already taken the stage of the Musikverein in 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2018 and 2021.
The decision took place as always with an orchestra voting system. Since the beginning of this artistic collaboration in 1971, Muti, lifetime music director of the Chicago Symphony, he conducted more than half a thousand concerts and opera productions by the Vienna Philharmonic.
“Riccardo Muti has occupied an exceptional place in the history of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for over fifty years. An honorary member of the orchestra since 2011, he has contributed to uniquely shaping the repertoire and specific sound of the ensemble”, underlines in the press release the president of the orchestra, Daniel Froschauer.
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