Premieres Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app
The beloved annual concert performed by Vienna Philharmonic takes place in Schönbrunn Palace Park and is conducted for the first time by Maestro Tugan Sokhiev.
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Renowned opera singer Piotr Beczała joins as the vocal soloist, performing three famed arias from Bizet’s “Carmen,” Puccini’s “Turandot,” and Kálmán’s operetta “Gräfin Mariza.”
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Additionally, the Vienna Boys Choir will perform at the concert for the first time.
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Musical program:
- “Air” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major – Johann Sebastian Bach
- “The Rhine Nixies: The Elves’ Song” – Jacques Offenbach
- “The Farandole” from “L’Arlesienne Suite” No. 2 – Georges Bizet
- “The Flower That You Threw To Me” from “Carmen” – Georges Bizet
- “The Waltz of the Flowers” from “The Nutcracker” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major – Antonín Dvořák
- Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” – Pietro Mascagni
- “Nessun Dorma” from “Turandot” – Giacomo Puccini
- Bacchanal Dance from “Samson et Delila” – Camille Saint-Saëns
- Hungarian March from “La Damnation de Faust” – Hector Berlioz
- Overture from “The Merry Wives of Windsor” – Otto Nicolai
- “When Evening Comes (Greet Me, My Vienna)” from “Countess Mariza” – Emmerich Kálmán
- “Friends, Life is Worth Living” from “Giuditta” – Franz Léhar
- “Vienna Blood” Waltz – Johann Strauss
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