Walzer cult: Wiener festival year honors Strauss with a unique happening!

Walzer cult: Wiener festival year honors Strauss with a unique happening!

It was a very special evening in the Vienna concert hall when the event "Save the Last Waltz for Me" took place on Friday. On June 7, 2025, exactly 126 years after the funeral of the Waltz king Johann Strauss son, visitors were offered an impressive happening. Oskar Haag and Oliver Welter were responsible for concept and director, while the dramaturgical feather was run by Tomas Zierhofer-Kin. Fritz Ostermayer flipped off the grave speech and thus set the emotional framework for the evening.

The evening began with a moving film about Johann Strauss, which was shown at the composer's grave. The performances ranged from a rare appearance of Naked Lunch, which has been performing their first concert for seven years, right down to a new song by the talented Nino from Vienna, which was performed every three -quarter time. A highlight was the performance of Peaches, which together with Clara breakfast presented a number with Strauss motifs. Verena Altenberger also impressed with a language performance, while Yury Revich improvised musically. To round off the evening, Lars Eidinger as a DJ ensured the perfect end of the event - the only technical Problem was the not always functioning microphones and cameras.

Johann Strauss 2025: A comprehensive festival year

"Waltz, Vienna and joie de vivre" - as Roland Geyer, the director of the festival year, describes the heir of Johann Strauss. In 2025, the composer's birthday is celebrated for the 200th time. The cultural program promises no less than 65 productions and three exhibitions that are distributed across the entire city. From classic concerts to creative, non-classic performances-everyone finds something here that appeals to him. The events will take place at 69 different locations in Vienna, which underlines the variety of formats offered again.

The program is divided into three pillars: "PUR", "Mix" and "Off". The “PUR” line promises top-class performances, including a “operetta pasticcio” by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst. In the "Mix" line, a playful way of dealing with Strauss ’work is on the program, inclusive premieres by Jacqueline Kornmüller and the theater ensemble Nestval. The "off" column, in turn

a final chord for the festival year

The celebrations will find their crowning conclusion with a summary gala "by (e) Strauss" on December 31, 2025 in the Theater an der Vienna. Together with surprise guests, Nikolaus Habjan will celebrate the inheritance of the great composer. The comprehensive cosmopolitanism of the Strauss festival year shows that Johann Strauss is not just a name, but a attitude to life that is deeply rooted in Vienna's culture. Even if reference has not always been made directly to the waltz king, the love of music is an integral part of life in Vienna.

For all those who want to be inspired by the variety of the program, it should be said: The festival year offers the opportunity to rediscover Johann Strauss from many perspectives. And so it only remains to be said that the Viennese joie de vivre is particularly popular this year - in the spirit of our imperishable waltz king.

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