New Year's Concert 2019 with Christian Thielemann
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The 2019 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert takes place on January 1, 2019, under the baton of Christian Thielemann in the Musikverein in Vienna. Christian Thielemann, Principal Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle and Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, has since 2000 been a musical partner of the Vienna Philharmonic. The New Year's Concert 2019 represents Thielemann's first time to conduct this prestigious international concert event.
The 2019 New Year's Concert will be broadcast in over 90 countries and followed by as many as 50 million television viewers around the world.
The Vienna Philharmonic presents annually at the New Year a program consisting of the lively and yet nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the Strauss family and its contemporaries. This concert is now broadcast to over 90 countries around the world.
Christian Thieleman
The 2018/2019 season is Christian Thielemann’s seventh as Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Following engagements at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in Gelsenkirchen, Karlsruhe, Hanover and Dusseldorf, in 1988 he moved to Nuremberg to occupy the post of Generalmusikdirektor. In 1997 he returned to his hometown of Berlin to direct the Deutsche Oper until 2004, when he became Music Director of the Munich Philharmonic, a post he occupied until 2011. In addition to his current position in Dresden, Thielemann has been Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival since 2013, where the Staatskapelle is resident orchestra.
Floral Decorations by Vienna Parks and Gardens
When Christian Thielemann raises his baton for the New Year's Concert on January 1, 2019, it will mark the first time that he has conducted this prestigious concert. The partnership between the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna City Gardens for the floral arrangements throughout the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, has been in place since 2015.
Once again this year, to the delight of concertgoers and viewers of the television broadcast around the world, the Vienna City Gardens, along with the Austrian gardeners and florists, will produce the arrangements which light up the Golden Hall in a resplendent sea of blossoming floral color.
Christian Thielemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Thielemann
Christian Thielemann
http://www.staatskapelle-dresden.de/staatskapelle/christian-thielemann/
"Willste nen Cognac?"- Christian Thielemann erzählt von seiner Erstbegegnung mit "Tosca"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12xQDjerTo
Silvesterkonzert aus der Semperoper 2017 - Christian Thielemann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCrW14ZLZk
The History of the New Year's Concert
http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/new-years-concert/history