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From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024

Premiere: 1/1/2024 | 00:00:30 |

Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led by guest conductor Christian Thielemann. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns to host.

About the Episode

Celebrate the new year with this beloved annual concert featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. Hosted for the seventh consecutive year by PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville, the concert will include waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Eduard Strauss as well as favorites by Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. and others. Guest conducted by three-time Grammy nominee Christian Thielemann and featuring dances choreographed by Davide Bombana with soloists from the Vienna State Ballet, Great Performances – From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024 Folio premieres Monday, January 1 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). The program will also encore at 9:30 p.m. ET.

Musical Selections:

Johann Strauss II – Waldmeister Overture
Johann Strauss II – Ischl Waltz
Johann Strauss II – Nightingale Polka
Eduard Strauss – The Mountain Spring Polka
Johann Strauss II – New Pizzicato Polka
Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. – Estudiantina Polka
Carl Michael Ziehrer – Viennese Citizens Waltz
Anton Bruckner – Quadrille
Hans Christian Lumbye – Happy New Year! Galop
Josef Strauss – Deliriums Waltz
Josef Strauss – Jockey Quick Polka
Johann Strauss II – The Beautiful Blue Danube
Johann Strauss Sr. – Radetzky March

Locations:

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024 will feature various locations including the opulent ballroom of Vienna’s City Hall and the Freud Museum on the 125^th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s groundbreaking work with dream analysis. In addition, location sequences in the alpine resort of Bad Ischl will trace the love story of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, including a tour of the royal couple’s country estate.

Notable Talent:

Hugh Bonneville – host, actor, Masterpiece: Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey and Downton Abbey: A New Era
Christian Thielemann – Guest conductor, three-time Grammy Award nominee and Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden

Noteworthy Facts:

This is Christian Thielemann’s second time conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Year’s Day concert following 2019’s concert.
Christian Thielemann leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra regularly in subscription concerts in the Vienna Musikverein, at the Salzburg Festival, and on tour in Japan, China, Europe, and the U.S.
Christian Thielemann was recently announced to succeed Daniel Barenboim as General Music Director of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden in September 2024.
This is Hugh Bonneville’s seventh consecutive year acting as host for the New Year’s Concert.
The 2024 New Year’s Day Concert will mark the 40^th concert presented on PBS.

Features

Clip | The Beautiful Blue Danube

Clip | The Vienna State Ballet Performs Strauss’ “Ischl Waltz”

SERIES OVERVIEW
PRODUCTION CREDITS
FUNDING
TRANSCRIPT

SERIES OVERVIEW

For more than 50 years on PBS, Great Performances has provided an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America’s most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming. Showcasing a diverse range of artists from around the world, the series has earned 67 Emmy Awards and six Peabody Awards. The Great Performances website hosts exclusive videos, interviews, photos, full episodes and more. The series is produced by The WNET Group. Great Performances is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on PBS.org and the PBS App , available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

For more than 50 years on PBS, Great Performances has provided an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America’s most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming. Showcasing a diverse range of artists from around the world, the series has earned 67 Emmy Awards and six Peabody Awards. The Great Performances website hosts exclusive videos, interviews, photos, full episodes and more. The series is produced by The WNET Group. Great Performances is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on PBS.org and the PBS App , available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO.

FUNDING

Corporate support for From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024 is provided by Rolex. Series funding for Great Performances is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Leni and Peter May, Seton J. Melvin, the Blanche and Hayward Cirker Charitable Trust, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, Ellen and James S. Marcus, and Lorraine A. Egan and the late Richard T. Egan.

TRANSCRIPT

Hello, I'm Hugh Bonneville.

Celebrate the New Year in grand style with Great Performances from where else but Vienna, where a waltz, a march and melodies by Strauss bring smiles to everyone on New Year's Day.

Join me, our maestro Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Ballet as we welcome the New Year.

From all of us at Great Performances, we wish you every happiness for 2024.

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