Vienna New Year Concert 2025

Live Stream, TV Coverage, Lineup, Tickets, Online Webcast Feed

The fabulous Vienna new year's day concert returns once again for 2025, delighting a global audience who will be watching on TV and online via the free live stream in their millions.

The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has been a feature of the global new year's day celebrations for a great length of time, tracing it's origins way back to 1838, although the format and venues have changed over the years.

The current new year concert is in fact one of the most watched classical music events anywhere in the world, being brooadcast live on TV to dozens of countries around the world, with an even larger audience opened up in recent years by the large growth in the popularity and availability of online streaming.

Event Details

If you would like to attend the new year concert in Vienna then securing tickets is a lottery - literally! You'll need to register via the official website for any of the 3 main holiday season concerts:

30 December: Preview Performance
31 December: New Year's Eve Concert
1 January: New Year's Concert

The registration process takes place throughout January and February and results are notified in March for successful applicants, so you need to be making your plans well in advance. Get more details on the lottery process and apply for your tickets online here.

The New Year's Concert will be conducted by Christian Thielemann and normally includes the wonderful compositions by Josef Hellmesberger, Johann Strauss Jr, Josef Strauss, Carl Michael Ziehrer, Eduard Strauss.

Live Stream, TV Coverage

The new year concert from Vienna is broadcast around the world in many different countries and watched by an audience of many millions. In the UK is has been part of the BBC new year's day programming schedule for several years now, generally shown live on BBC2.

You can watch this coverage online here:

BBC2 live stream

In the US this is also being live streamed online by PBS as part of their Great Performances schedule:

Vienna new year on PBS

Hotels and Accommodation

If you are in Vienna over the Christmas and new year festive season then the city's many hotels will be very busy, so as usual we advise you to book well in advance rto secure the best places.

You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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