Damrau Diana © Simon Fowler
Spyres Michael © Marco Borelli
Kopatchinskaja Patricia © Marco Borggreve
Halls Matthew © Benjamin Ealovega
Festkonzerte der Wiener Symphoniker
4 Konzerte im Großen Saal
1 Konzert im Großen Musikvereinssaal
Saalplan mit 8 Kategorien (Großer Saal)
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra celebrates the beginning and end of the season, the pre-Christmas and pre-Easter periods, and »Spring in Vienna« with its festive concerts: They open their season at the Wiener Konzerthaus under the baton of Robin Ticciati with Mahler's »Song of the Earth«. Fittingly for the times before Christmas and Easter, they present Tchaikovsky's ballet »The Nutcracker« under Christoph Eschenbach and Bach's »St. Matthew Passion« under Matthew Halls and with the Vienna Singakademie. They perform the traditional gala »Spring in Vienna« with Manfred Honeck and star soprano Diana Damrau. At the end of the season, they return once again to the great Russian ballet tradition, and portrait artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja interprets Arnold Schönberg's Violin Concerto on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth.