New Year's Eve Concerts in Mallorca

From the 1st of January 2024 the island offers different cultural options to celebrate the beginning of the new year by enjoying classical music. Among the most outstanding are the performances by the Strauss Festival Orchestra and the New Year’s concert by the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears (Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands).

Mallorca’s New Year’s Eve 2024 concert programme is a traditional event that brings together classical music lovers in Palma’s most emblematic cultural venues.

Strauss Festival Orchestra: 34 years of successful touring throughout Europe

For lovers of classical music, the best-known titles of the waltz king, Napoleon, Flower Festival, The Emperor’s Waltz or Champagne, The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Radetzky March make up the programme of this concert which has so far been attended by more than 5 million spectators from all over the world.

Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Musikhalle, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid… These are some of the venues that filled up to see one of the most eagerly awaited events of the musical season.

Great New Year’s Concert 2024: Strauss Festival Orchestra.
Date and time: 2 January, at 8 pm.
Location: Palma Auditorium.
Venue: Sala Magna.

Photo: Auditorium de Palma.

New Year’s Concert 2024 by the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears

Pablo Mielgo conducts the traditional New Year’s concert of the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears. The OSIB celebrates the beginning of 2024 with a programme consisting mainly of works by Johann Strauss Jr. Soprano Elena Sancho will be the soloist.

Programme:

O. Nicolai / Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture.
J. Strauss / Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus).
E. Korngold / Straussiana Waltz.
E. Kalman / Höre ich di Zigeunergeigen (Gräfin Mariza).
J. Strauss II / Trisch-Trasch Polka, op. 214.
G. Gimenez – Nieto / They call me la Primorosa (The Barber of Seville).
J. Strauss II / Neue Pizzicato-Polka, Op. 449.
C. Gounod / Je Veux Vivre (Romeo and Juliet).
J. Strauss II / Kaiser-Waltzer op.437.
N.Paganini / Liebe du Himmel auf Arde.
J. Strauss / Schützen-Quadrille.
G. Donizetti / Oh luce di quest’anima (Linda di Chamounix).
L. Anderson / Typewriter.
J. Strauss / Frühlingsstimmen.
J. Strauss II / Marche Persanne, Op. 289.
J. Strauss II / Eljen A Magyar (Ungarische Polka Schnell) op. 332.
P. Luna / De España vengo (El niño Judío).

New Year’s Concert 2024
Date and time: Monday, 1st January.
Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma.
Time: 20 h.
(Tuesday) 19:30 – 21:30 h. Auditori de Manacor.

concierto de zarzuela orquestra simfònica de les illes balears

Photo: Teatre Principal.

Programme of the Teatre Principal de Palma 2024

Starting on the 1st of January 2024, the Teatre Principal presents its programme for the new year:

Zarzuela Concert

A concert dedicated to the “género chico” in which we can listen to the best-known romanzas from the popular zarzuela repertoire with pieces by Sorozábal, Chapí and the Mallorcan Miquel Marquès. It will be performed by the Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears (Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands).

Programme:

– R. Chapí – Preludio (El tambor de granaderos)
– P. Luna – La roca fria del calvario (La Dolorosa)
– P. Miguel Marqués – Lágrimas mías (El anillo de hierro)
– F. Chueca – Preludio (El Bateo)
– F. Moreno Torroba – De este apacible rincón (Luisa Fernanda)
– F. Asenjo Barbieri – De qué me sirve (Los diamantes de la corona)
– A. Vives – Dúo La van a Oír (Doña Francisquita)
– P. Luna – Danza Árabe (El niño judío)
– P. Luna – Paxarin tu que vuelas (La Pícara Molinera)
– P. Sorozábal – No corte más que una rosa (La del manojo de rosas)
– R. Soutullo y J. Vert – Intermedio (La leyenda del beso)
– P. Sorozábal – No puede ser (Tabernera del Puerto)
– P. Sorozábal – Dúo de Marola y Leandro (Tabernera del Puerto)
– G. Giménez – La boda de Luis Alonso, Intermedio