The New Year's party is the most anticipated event of the year. 2024 is approaching, from December 20, 2023 to January 1, 2024, there will be 5 high-level symphonies** in Shenyang, bringing a full "sense of ceremony" to the public.
New Year's greetings from Vienna
The New Year's party is indispensable for voices from Vienna. This year's New Year's Party in Shenyang will feature two orchestras from Vienna performing for the audience.
On December 20th, the Johann Strauss Light Opera Symphony Orchestra will take the lead in opening the Shenyang New Year's performance at the Liaoning Grand Theater. Every year around the New Year, the Johann Strauss Operetta Symphony Orchestra tours Vienna and other European countries with New Year's party tours, performing classic works of the Strauss family. In this concert, the symphony orchestra will bring the audience in Shenyang such world-famous songs as Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Waltz for an Artist's Career", Mozart's "What a Beautiful Flute", Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Waltz of Spring" and "Blue Danube Waltz".
On December 29th, the New Year's Party of the Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna will be held at the Shengjing Grand TheatreThe Johann Strauss Orchestra Vienna is one of the purest interpreters of the works of the Strauss family** and other Viennese composers of his time. In 1966, 120 years after Johann Strauss the Elder founded the Strauss Orchestra, people's pursuit of light and high-quality interpretation prompted the leaders from the Vienna Radio Orchestra to establish the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra. The orchestra's mission is not only to promote the creation of the Strauss family, but also to promote Vienna itself. The orchestra is composed of 42 members, and this orchestra is loved and recognized by the Strauss family in order to present a more authentic work of the Strauss family.
The three major symphony orchestras compete in the same city
It is worth mentioningIn the performance of the Shenyang New Year's Party, there were also performances from the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Symphony OrchestraDifferent styles of art will also bring an extraordinary audio-visual feast to the audience in Shenyang.
The Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra performs. (Details**).
On December 21st, the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra's New Year's Party will be staged at the Liaoning Grand Theater.
The Slovak National Symphony Orchestra was founded in 2002. The orchestra was founded on the basis of the Slovak National Sinfonietta with elite members from several national orchestras. Founded in 1974, the Slovak State Sinfonietta is one of Europe's leading small symphony orchestras, especially in Czechoslovakia and Eastern European countries. In 1977, the orchestra was invited to participate in the prestigious Salzburg Festival and was designated as the official orchestra of the festival, which made the orchestra famous overnight. The Slovak National Symphony Orchestra will present Strauss's Bat Overture and Blue Danube, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11.
On December 31st, the Barry Douglas & Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra New Year's Party will be staged at the Shengjing Grand Theater. In 1986, pianist Barry Douglas won the gold medal in the piano category of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, and his international career as an artist began. Founded in 1925, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the leading symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe and has been dedicated to spreading Armenian culture and ** since its inception. Among the most important companies he has worked with are Dmitry Kabalevsky, Alam Khachaturian and Christopher Penderecki. More than 30 CDs have been released so far, and they have toured the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Greece, Russia, and more.
On January 1, 2024, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra's 2024 New Year** will be staged at the Shengjing Grand Theatre. The Moscow Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1989 by conductor Dmitry Orlov. It is the only orchestra in the world and in Russia that devotes all its energies to discovering and nurturing great and excellent artists from young people and educating them. Since its birth, it has brought together the most radiant young artists of Russia, and it has become the "commander-in-chief of the Russian kingdom" with its absolutely infectious epic ** and absolute appeal.
Shen Baoquan**Reporter: Gai Yunfei.