Pia Amofa-Antwi (known from "Pia and the Wild Nature") sets out on a special mission and ends up in Christmas-time Vienna 200 years ago, the home of composer and conductor Johann Strauss. He was a true pop star in his day. He composed waltzes, mazurkas, and polkas like an assembly line. Waltzes and waffles – that's how you get through the Christmas season in Vienna. And, of course, Christmas carols are part of it! That's when Pia needs some backup: a hearty sing-along is the order of the day!

Christmas with the Waltz King

Unterföhring Community Center

We are absolutely delighted to perform for you the world première of a new composition by Dominic McGonigal — ‘Sunset at Sea’. Dominic’s work has been described as having “great textures and a perfect sense of spacing and pacing” and his ‘Ave Maris Stella Takes Flight’ recently won the Palimpsest Competition at Canterbury Cathedral.

After training as a chorister, Dominic read music at King’s College, Cambridge where he sang bass in King’s Chapel Choir. He found his voice as a composer with his 'Missa Et Incarnatus Est', a large work for 8-part choir, soloists and small orchestra. These days he combines a career in the music business with performing and conducting, including appointments as musical director of COMA Voices, Stoneleigh Choral Society, the Church of St Anselm & St Cecilia in Holborn, Opera Spezzata, EJMS Big Band and St Giles Consort …. and as for this piece, you’ll just have to come and hear it for yourself.

Where the Water Flows...

All Saints Ecclesall

We hear classical parlour music as a quintet from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra lights up the November night. The programme includes gems from Clara and Robert Schumann and swinging Viennese waltzes. Magnus Fryklund is at the piano.

Roses from Schumann & Strauss

Göteborgs Symfoniker

A Vienna New Year's Celebration

Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church

Concert in Tokyo

ARK Hills

Join the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and the SoCal Chorale in Veterans Auditorium for an uplifting tribute honoring courage and unity.

Summon the Heroes - a Culver City Symphony Orchestra Veterans Day Concert

Veterans Memorial Park Culver City

Johann Strauss II, the legendary Viennese Waltz King, was born in Vienna 200 years ago in 1825. However, he died a German, namely a citizen of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Out of love for Adele, the Imperial and Royal Court Ball music director renounced his Austrian citizenship and converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism – and this only because the Pope did not annul the Catholic marriage between Strauss and his second wife, Lilli. As an art connoisseur, Duke Ernst II gladly opened the doors to celebrity and was willing to make Strauss "his" citizen. Following naturalization, the Strauss couple were married in the court chapel of Ehrenburg Palace. In gratitude, Strauss dedicated the polka française "Neues Leben" (New Life) to the Duke. The anniversary concert "Straussiana" will feature works by Strauss's contemporaries, admirers, and the master himself. Of course, his non-blood-related namesake, Richard Strauss, who was himself a master of the late Romantic waltz, will also be featured. Star cellist Alexey Stadler will open his residency with "Don Quixote," a tone poem on a theme of chivalric character.

Straussiana

State Theatre Eisenach

They called him Schani, and we call him Johann Strauss the Younger. And whoever is a son also has a mother. And lovers. And wives. All of them, in their own way, played a part in his journey to becoming the King of Waltz. Curious how Schani's mother encouraged him to pursue a career in music against the wishes of his unfaithful father? What it was like with Jetty, Angelika, and Adele? How the Strausses composed, rehearsed, lived, and loved? To mark his 200th birthday, we lift the curtain and take a tongue-in-cheek look at a not-quite-normal family...

The Waltz King's Ladies

Prinzregententheater

Composers captivated by rivers transform their works. Moved by tragedy, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 ebbs and flows with the treacherous yet gentle movement of the Rhine; Leonel Morales returns to the YSO as the featured pianist. Duke Ellington follows the transforming flow of water in the theatrical The River. Known as the ‘waltz king,’ Strauss’ composed On the Beautiful Blue Danube to boost wartime spirits with his uplifting work. Folk-inspired The Moldau, Bedrich Smetana’s symphonic poem admires the Vltava River through the magnificent Bohemian landscape.

Brahms & Ellington

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Get ready for a grand tour of Europe with beloved travel expert Rick Steves as your guide. Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe is a one-of-a-kind concert event that combines breathtaking symphonic music with stunning video from Rick’s acclaimed PBS travel series—projected above the orchestra in high-definition and synchronized live with the music.

From the noble beauty of Elgar and the rhapsodic sweep of Smetana’s The Moldau to the joyful grandeur of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and the iconic charm of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz, each piece in this globe-trotting program evokes a different place, tradition, or cultural landmark. Rick Steves appears on screen throughout the concert, sharing personal insights and stories that deepen the audience’s connection to each work and destination.

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Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

Coffee Concert No. 2 »On the Road Through Europe«

Volkshaus Jena

Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti returns with an all-time orchestral favorite: Dvořák’s New World Symphony. Its glorious melodies capture the folk songs and spirituals the composer heard in America, dosed with a heartfelt longing for his Czech homeland. Composed in 1939, Hindemith’s majestic Mathis der Maler portrays an eminent Renaissance artist’s struggles against political repression.

Muti Conducts Strauss, Hindemith & Dvořák 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Konzert zum Nationalfeiertag

Musikverein Wien

Concert of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna

„Alle 100 Jahre wieder“

Vienna Music Society

Homage to Johann Bouquet

Anniversary concert «200 Years of Johann Strauss II»

Congress Center

Johann Strauss II, the legendary Viennese Waltz King, was born in Vienna 200 years ago in 1825. However, he died a German, namely a citizen of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Out of love for Adele, the Imperial and Royal Court Ball music director renounced his Austrian citizenship and converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism – and this only because the Pope did not annul the Catholic marriage between Strauss and his second wife, Lilli. As an art connoisseur, Duke Ernst II gladly opened the doors to celebrity and was willing to make Strauss "his" citizen. Following naturalization, the Strauss couple were married in the court chapel of Ehrenburg Palace. In gratitude, Strauss dedicated the polka française "Neues Leben" (New Life) to the Duke.

A2 Straussiana

Gotha City Hall

Guest performance in Weißenfels »Back from vacation«

Weißenfels Cultural Center

An ambitious local politician is talked into building a spaceport by an oligarch – to help his city - and perhaps himself - achieve new greatness. And yet Gabriel von Eisenstein actually has other problems: He is due to start a prison sentence tomorrow for disorderly conduct. But why face reality? Eisenstein prefers to follow the advice of his friend Dr. Falke and have a good time before starting his prison sentence - and thus falls into a net of intrigue in which quite a few honorable personalities stand to lose their good reputation.

The bat

German Oper am Rhein

Vienna, its life, its work. Let us recognize, on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth, that Johann Strauss Jr. alone encapsulates the spirit of the city. His younger brother, Josef, does the same in his own way, whose polka-mazurka, The Dragonfly, confirms what a genius he would have been had he renounced his first profession. After the trumpets and Magyar arches of Von Suppé's very brassy Light Cavalry , Korngold's Violin Concerto conjures up the disenchanted Vienna of Yesterday's World. Two cities, two atmospheres.

Gala Johann Strauss / Dueñas / Honeck

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Named Gramophone’s 2023 Young Artist of the Year, violinist Stella Chen has dazzled audiences worldwide and now makes her highly anticipated Vancouver debut with Saint-Saëns’ mesmerizing Third Violin Concerto. Conductor David Danzmayr, Music Director of the Oregon Symphony, brings his dynamic energy to Schubert’s enigmatic “Unfinished Symphony.” The evening culminates in pure splendor with Richard Strauss’ shimmering suite from his sophisticated Viennese comedy, Der Rosenkavalier.

Saint-Saëns’ Third Violin Concerto

Orpheum

When it comes to festivity and elegance in the world of music, few names shine brighter than Johann Strauss II. This year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth – celebrated with a concert brimming with sparkling waltzes and whirling polkas.

Masters of the Waltz

Stockholm City Hall

It's Carnival in Venice. The city is filled with masks and disguises, longings and illusions. Everything is permitted as long as Carnival reigns. In the colorful hustle and bustle of the lagoon city, Duke Urbino, a notorious playboy, pursues every skirt that crosses his path, sending the city's husbands into a panic. But while the men try to protect their wives from the infamous seducer, the wives have long since made plans of their own – defying any male dominance...

A night in Venice

Globe Coburg

We begin transporting you to the natural world through the magic of music with Strauss’ famous Tales from the Vienna Woods — waltzes through the countryside with poetic justice. Followed by York Symphony’s Principal Oboe Jill Haley’s work, National Parks Suite No. 2, which embodies America’s beloved landscapes. We finish the evening with Beethoven’s Sixth “Pastorale” Symphony which expresses a range of emotions while in nature – the pure joy of rambling in the woods to crashing sounds of a looming thunderstorm.

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony

Our season opens with a thrilling journey through myth, motion, and majesty. This all-orchestral program highlights the exceptional musicianship of the Dearborn Symphony, offering a vibrant and engaging experience for both longtime patrons and first-time guests.

We begin with Offenbach’s riotous Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, a cheeky romp through the realm of the gods, best known for its exhilarating can-can. Strauss’s Perpetuum Mobile keeps the energy spinning with its witty, whirlwind momentum — a musical joke that never runs out of steam.

Myth, Motion, and Majesty

Michael Schmid initially received his violin training as a junior student with Prof Conrad von der Goltz. After leaving school, he studied in Salzburg and Vienna with Prof Harald Herzl and Prof Christian Altenburger. He received further musical impulses in the class of Prof Ingolf Turban, in chamber music studies with Prof Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and in masterclasses with Leonidas Kavakos, Christian Tetzlaff and Prof Igor Ozim.

Chamber Music Evening N° 1

Semperoper Dresden

Guest performance in Arnstadt »Back from vacation«

Theater im Schlossgarten

Coffee Concert No. 1 »Back from Vacation«

2025 marks the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss (son). To mark this anniversary, Maximilian Kendlinger and his K&K Philharmonic Orchestra are presenting the »Vienna Johann Strauss Concert Gala«, which is a guarantee for a fresh attitude to life, vitality and sensuality. Since 1996, the Austrian export hit – the original with Kendlinger’s K&K Philharmonic Orchestra – has captivated more than 1.5 million fans in 19 European countries – a musical fountain of youth that even kings and emperors would enjoy – cult status included.

Kendlinger's K&K Philharmonic / Max Kendlinger

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

19th Wind Music Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic

Felsenreitschule

This program juxtaposes one of the grandest Viennese waltzes with an atmospheric work by contemporary New Zealand composer Salina Fisher. The program concludes with The Trout Quintet – named for its fourth movement, a variation on Schubert’s earlier work Die Forelle, or “The Trout,” and uniquely known for its melodic nature and an emphasis on the highest register of the piano.

Brandon Patrick George, flute; Yoonah Kim, clarinet; Benjamin Beilman, Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Lun Li, Melissa White, violins; Jordan Bak, Emma Wernig, violas; Jay Campbell, Bryan Cheng, cellos; Lizzie Burns, bass; Pedja Mužijević, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

Opera Theater of Connecticut marks its milestone 40th anniversary with a landmark season featuring Johann Strauss II’s sparkling masterpiece, Die Fledermaus. Taking the stage on August 7, 9, and 10, 2025, at the Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main Street, Clinton, this production, sung and performed in English, reimagines the timeless operetta with a fresh script by Artistic Director Alan Mann.

Die Fledermaus

Andrews Memorial Theater

Marking 200 years since the birth of ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, a celebration of the opulence and enchantment of Vienna’s Golden Age. The Prom also includes works by Lehár, Kálmán and others, and pieces by later composers inspired by the most popular dance in three-time. American soprano Erin Morley joins Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Viennese Whirl

Royal Albert Hall

Bask in the glow of a starry sky as the BSO brings a luminous program to the vineyard. This evening of flowing, graceful music features shimmering dances by Strauss and Shostakovich, folk-inspired charm from Dvořák, and the radiant Concertino for Harp by Germaine Tailleferre.

Sunset Serenades at Boordy Vineyards

Boordy Vineyards Inc

Overtures by Rossini and Johann Strauss are paired with Boccherini's Cello Concerto and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony in a program that celebrates la dolce vita.

Notes from Italy at Boordy Vineyards

Auckland Philharmonia principal musicians take centre stage for Mozart’s amiable concerto for a group of star wind players.

Nightscapes

Auckland Town Hall

"Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss II

20 years ago, Lyric Opera of the North’s very first event featured scenes from Die Fledermaus. What better way to celebrate our anniversary than with a beautiful new production of this operetta that is an ode to bubbles, waltzes, masked balls, and shimmery melodies!

NorShor Theatre

The 38th Weekday Afternoon Concert

Tokyo Opera City Tower

The 26th Shibuya Afternoon Concert

Bunkamura

Concert in Ried im Innkreis

Jahnturnhalle

Concert in Vienna

9th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

Comprising titled musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra, this acclaimed ensemble presents chamber music classics.

Kennedy Center Chamber Players: Summer Concert

Kennedy Center

A supremely well-crafted ballet performed in tutus and set to the sparkling music of Mozart, Divertimento No. 15 illustrates Balanchine’s unsurpassed gift for exploring the variety and richness of classical choreography. Vienna Waltzes, a ballet in five parts set to music from Johann Strauss II, Franz Léhar, and Richard Strauss, is Balanchine’s variously hued tribute to the Austrian capital at its cultural apex in the 19th Century.

All Balanchine II

Lincoln Center

The 2025 Spring Gala highlights Balanchine’s fondness for the waltz with the monumental five-part Vienna Waltzes, featuring opulent settings, sumptuous costumes, and 50 dancers in dreamlike motion.

Spring Gala

Concert in Linz

Brucknerhaus

Concert in Villach

Josef-Resch-Hall

The programme for the last evening in Trieste dances from musical Vienna to the whole world, circling around Italy again and again. Petr Popelka and the Wiener Symphoniker slowly move with Johann Strauss Sohn and his Gruß an Wien to the land Where the Lemons Blossom and finally spend A Night in Venice. Of course, the polka Auf Ferienreisen is also performed. The second part of the programme includes works by Giacomo Puccini (Preludio sinfonico), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Capriccio Italien) and the interlude to Franz Schmidt's opera Notre Dame. The programme closes with the Strauss waltz Roses from the South. An atmospheric evening that will also be recorded by ORF and broadcast to the world from Trieste.

Springtime from Vienna

Politeama Rossetti/Rossetti Theatre

Concert in Lisbon

MEO Arena

Experience an evening of musical brilliance with the Symphony of Southeast Texas as they present "Ode to Joy" at the Julie Rogers Theatre for the Performing Arts. This captivating concert, part of the Classics Series, features an exquisite selection of compositions that promise to enchant and inspire. The program opens with the lively and spirited "Die Fledermaus Overture" by Johann Strauss, setting a jubilant tone for the evening. Following this, the audience will be treated to the intricate and dynamic "Concerto Grosso" by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, showcasing the orchestra's versatility and technical prowess.

The highlight of the night is undoubtedly Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental Symphony No. 9, a masterpiece that has resonated through the ages with its powerful themes of unity and joy. Under the baton of guest conductor Ronald White, alongside Maestro Chelsea Tipton II, the Symphony of Southeast Texas will bring this iconic work to life, accompanied by the SOST Chorus. The performance promises to be a profound and moving experience, celebrating the enduring power of Beethoven's final symphony.

Join the Symphony of Southeast Texas for an unforgettable evening of classical music, where each note and harmony will transport you to a world of artistic excellence and emotional depth.

Ode to Joy!

Julie Rogers Theatre

Concert in the Musikverein

2025 SPO Outreach Orchestral Concert

Gangdong Arts Center

Gwanak Art Hall

Experience the intoxicating musical world of turn-of-the-century Vienna!​ Join us for a fanciful mix of Viennese waltzes, polkas, gallops and more, followed by Vienna's own Gustav Mahler's deeply emotional Symphony No. 4, featuring soprano Marcelina Román.

Invitation To Vienna

Sieminski Theater

The Presbyterian Church in Westfield

New Year's Concert 2025

Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt

Concert in Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie

Concert in Hamburg

Embark on a musical odyssey with the MSO, from the rolling Appalachian hills to the stunning Blue Mountains, cruising down grand European rivers and journeying to a galaxy far, far away.

Journeys and Adventures

Kings Domain

Concert in Munich

Munich Residence

Concert in Luzern

Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre

Make "more enjoyment" your resolution for the new year! The Jena Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Swann van Rechem offers the perfect opportunity to put this into practice. Forget Dubai chocolate! We will open our musical box of chocolates for you, filled with the finest sounds from France, Austria and Germany. And with us you know exactly what you are getting. Enjoy the finest delicacies from Strauss and Sons, from Frederick Loewe, Erik Satie, Emmanuel Chabrier, Julius Fučík, Émile Waldteufel, Claude Debussy and Paul Lincke - and all without regrets. Whether tenderly melting or sparklingly fast - every piece is a feast for the ears. Bon appétit!

New Year's concert in the afternoon

Musicians from the Auckland Philharmonia come together to mentor talented young musicians through sectionals, workshops and rehearsals in a concentrated five-day training programme.

Orchestral Summer School Finale Concert

Bruce Mason Centre

Concert in Nowon

Nowon Culture & Arts Center

Concert in Seogwipo

Seogwipo Art Center

Concert in Chungnam

Chungnam Culture Art Hall

Concert in Ulsan

Ulsan Art Museum

New Year's Concert

Bürgerhaus Neuenhagen

Kulturkirche event center

Concert in Busan

Busan Cultural Center

Concert in Cheonan

Cheonan Arts Center

Concert in Fukuoka

Acros Fukuoka

The swirling majesty and joyous sounds of the traditional Viennese Gala will see you spinning into the New Year with a flourish! This year’s sparkling concert brings you all of your favourite waltzes, polkas and marches by Johann Strauss, his family and his contemporaries.

BSO: New Year Viennese Gala

Weymouth Pavilion

Guest performance in Weißenfels New Year's Concert

Kulturhaus Weißenfels

Foster Hall

With the operetta The Patch by Johann Strauss the Younger, you get a real Epiphany treat to enjoy. The fact that a large ensemble of young Swedish singers also participates only makes the experience even more exciting. This operetta also has everything - beautiful arias, languid waltzes, happy polkas and a completely wacky plot. Here, everyone tries to be someone other than they are, and everyone wants to come to Prince Orlofsky's party. The maid Adéle disguises herself as a fine lady, Dr. Falke becomes the Marquis Renard, Eisenstein, who should actually be in prison, is suddenly free, and his wife Rosalinda appears as a seductive Hungarian countess. The prison warden, who has also arrived, introduces himself as Chevalier Chagrin. Everything ends, as you can imagine, in complete chaos, and everyone ends up in the dumps. But it is wonderfully funny, and with music that lives on for a long time afterwards.

The patch

Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

Conductor Eduardo Strausser and the Hallé are joined by enchanting soprano Alexandra Lowe for a whirl around the ballrooms of Vienna in this traditional New Year concert. Featuring the lively overture to Die Fledermaus, the playful rhythms of Tritsch-Tratsch Polka and the romantic strains of Lehar’s Vilja, this concert is the perfect way to spend a January afternoon.

Viennese New Year

The Bridgewater Hall

Concert in Osaka

Nakanoshima Festival Tower

Concert in Yokohama

Queen's Square Yokohama

This New Year's concert is full of passion, temperament and great opera and operetta hits. We present stirring melodies by Rossini and the Strauss family that are as popular as pop songs. You will also hear Brahms' "Hungarian Dances" and the most beautiful melodies from George Bizet's "Carmen".

Kleist Forum

Concert in Beijing

Poly Theater

Concert in Shanghai

Shanghai Concert Hall

Guest performance in Arnstadt New Year's Eve concert • SOLD OUT

Last Night of the Year

Gasteig HP8

Experience the enchantment of Viennese Christmas at our spectacular concert!

Viennese Christmas Spectacular by Candlelight

St George's Hall

We're off to Vienna because it's New Year's Eve, but beware of the turbulence. From the elegant Viennese palaces, where Hungarian Dance and The Blue Danube resonate , we zigzag towards the cabaret: and here is the entire heritage of Beethoven, Kreisler and Johann Strauss revisited and energized by a few guests with furious energy. The Janoska Ensemble, from Bratislava, is having a blast with the National and its musical director at the start of this year.

Johann Strauss II

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 5, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Guest performance in Weißenfels New Year's Concert · Jenaer Philharmonie

Oct 4 - Dec 31, 2025

A night in Venice · Landestheater Coburg

Oct 18, 2025 - Jan 23, 2026

The bat · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dec 30, 2025

Viennese Christmas Spectacular by Candelight · Cadogan Hall

Dec 30, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Katharina Konradi / Manfred Honeck · Elbphilharmonie

Past events

12 - 13 Dec, 2025

Christmas with the Waltz King · Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Nov 29, 2025

Where the Water Flows... · Sheffield Chamber Orchestra

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