The New Year's concert live from Vienna is one of the world's most famous and spectacular classical music events. It will be broadcasted on TV and radio and reaches over 90 countries around the world with more than 50 million viewers. The annual New Year's Day concert in Vienna has been a major event for more than eight decades, since 1939. It has been conducted by world-famous maestros such as Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Gustavo Dudamel and Franz Welser-Möst. This year the prestigious concert will be conducted by Christian Thielemann for the 2nd time (2019). The Vienna Philharmonic, as musical ambassadors of Austria, send people all over the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship, and peace with lively and light-hearted and at the same time nostalgic and profound music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and it's contemporaries.