Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn
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Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn (German: Sommernachtskonzert) is an annual free entry outdoor concert in Vienna held by the Vienna Philharmonic. The venue for the concert is the Schönbrunn Palace.[1] It has telecast on PBS in the United States as part of the series Great Performances.[2]
History
The concert began operations in 2004.[3] Rolex began sponsoring it in 2009. As of around that year the concert has crowds of over 100,000.[4]
The concert has performed works by
Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner.[5] The concert invariably ends with Wiener Blut, by Johann Strauss II
.
Conductors
The concert has been conducted by:[3]
- 2024: Andris Nelsons
- 2023: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- 2022: Andris Nelsons
- 2021: Daniel Harding
- 2020: Valery Gergiev
- 2019: Gustavo Dudamel
- 2018: Valery Gergiev
- 2017: Christoph Eschenbach
- 2016: Semyon Bychkov
- 2015: Zubin Mehta
- 2014: Christoph Eschenbach
- 2013: Lorin Maazel
- 2012: Gustavo Dudamel
- 2011: Valery Gergiev
- 2010: Franz Welser-Möst
- 2009: Daniel Barenboim
- 2008: Georges Prêtre
- 2007: Valery Gergiev
- 2006: Plácido Domingo
- 2005: Zubin Mehta
- 2004: Bobby McFerrin
References
- ^ "Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2014." Vienna Philharmonic. Retrieved on July 6, 2014.
- ^ "Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013" (Archive). PBS. Retrieved on July 6, 2014.
- ^ a b "The Summer Night Classical Concert" (Archive). RTÉ. 24 June 2012. Retrieved on 6 July 2014.
- ^ "Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert" (Archive). Rolex. Retrieved on July 6, 2014.
- ^ "Summer-night Concert from Vienna Episode Guide" (Archive). BBC. Retrieved on July 6, 2014.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vienna Philharmonic Schönbrunn concert.
- Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn
- Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn (in German)
- Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn (website of 2004–2007)
- (in German) "Musikgenuss vom Feinsten: "Sommernachtskonzert" 2014 am 29. Mai live in ORF 2 und 3sat" (Archive). ORF.
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