At the Summer Night Concert, the Vienna Philharmonic play open-air in the park of Schönbrunn Palace and to the familiar high standard. And have done so year after year since 2004. The open-air concert for classical music is one of the main highlights of the philharmonic year. Just like the famous New Year's Concert, with which the orchestra sends musical greetings to the world on the first day of each year.

Impressions of the Summer Night Concert at Schönbrunn, 2018 - 2024

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Musical celebration with Sokhiev and Beczała

Maestro Tugan Sokhiev will wield the baton at the 2025 Summer Night Concert for the first time. He regularly conducts renowned orchestras such as the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Dresden and Berlin Staatskapelle and the New York Philharmonic. He was the musical advisor of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Bolshoi Theater until 2022.

The Vienna Boys’ Choir will also be performing at the Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert for the first time.

Tenor Piotr Beczała will sing three arias as a soloist, from Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot and Emmerich Kálmán’s operetta Countess Mariza.

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Nessun Dorma & The Flower Song

The focus of this year’s program is on melodies from operas and operettas. They form a musical journey through various European landscapes and moods. This year, the Vienna Philharmonic will dedicate Otto Nicolai’s overture to the opera “The Merry Wives of Windsor” to the 25th anniversary of House of Music. The Vienna Philharmonic Museum was opened there, in the former home of orchestra founder Otto Nicolai, in the year 2000, and the orchestra’s historical archive was moved into the building. 

Full program

• >> Deeply shocked by the attack at a school in Graz on June 10, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is changing the program. They will begin with “Air” by Johann Sebastian Bach. This will be followed by a minute's silence. <<
   
• Jacques Offenbach: “Komm’ mit uns und sing’ und tanze”, Elfenchor from the opera “Die Rheinnixen”
• Georges Bizet: Farandole from the L`Arlésienne, Suite No. 2
• Georges Bizet: Prelude to Act 3 of the opera “Carmen”
• Georges Bizet: “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée”, aria of Don José from the opera “Carmen” (‘Flower Song’)
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers from the ballet “The Nutcracker”, op. 71
• Edvard Grieg: Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46
• Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major, op. 46/1
• Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from the opera “Cavalleria rusticana”
• Giacomo Puccini: “Nessun Dorma”, aria of Prince Calaf from the opera “Turandot”
• Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Bacchanale from the opera “Samson et Dalila”, op. 47
• Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March from the opera “La Damnation de Faust”, op. 24
• Otto Nicolai: Overture to the opera “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
• Emmerich Kálmán: “Wenn es Abend wird” (“Greetings to my Vienna”), Tassilo’s song from the operetta “Countess Mariza”

Magical moments

In the midst of the Baroque parkland and framed by the extraordinary setting of Schönbrunn Palace and the Gloriette are the orchestra podium and the spectator area. The magic of the place and the enchantment of the classical music make the Summer Night Concert an unforgettable live experience for the audience, as well as for the millions who tune in on TV.

22. Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2025 by the Vienna Philharmonic

Friday, June 13, 2025, 8:45 p.m.
Free admission – no tickets required.
No seating.

Admission information

Global television broadcast from Schönbrunn Palace Park

• ORF 2: live with time-delay from 9:20 p.m.

• 3sat: Broadcast of the recording of the concert on the following day (June 14, 2025) from 8.15 p.m.

• Viewers in other countries are advised to check the TV program listings in their home country.

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