New Year’s Concert

The program consists of romantic waltzes, thrilling overtures and passionate polkas by the brothers Strauss and Franz von Suppé. Four renowned opera singers delight with arias, duets and quartets by Franz Lehár, Johann Strauss Sohn and Emmerich Kálmán.

Just as Johann Strauss planned, and according to the tradition of all great Viennese orchestras, the musicians have prepared some musical jokes to delight the audience!

The Festival hall (Festsaal) is the largest hall in the Vienna Hofburg with almost 1,000 m2.

The impressive ceiling paintings by the painter Schramm show the motto of Emperor Franz Joseph I. “Viribus Unitis” (With united forces).
Eduard Veith and Viktor Stauffer have immortalized personalities from Austrian history in the lunettes and octagon fields below.

The Festival Hall was originally planned as a throne room, but was never used in this form because the monarchy ended before its completion.