The Vienna New Year’s Ballet 2026

For more than 20 years, Creative Director Albert Kriemler and choreographer John Neumeier have shared a passion for fashion, music, and dance. Two decades later, they return to the place where it all began in 2006 — with the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. For the ballet segments of the 2026 New Year’s Concert broadcast, Kriemler once again designed the costumes for the dancers of the Vienna State Ballet. This makes the 2026 New Year’s Concert ballet a remarkable anniversary of their artistic collaboration.

Inspired by the lightness of the waltz Roses from the South and the precise rhythm of the Diplomat Polka by Johann Strauss (son), Kriemler created pure, flowing silk georgette dresses and suits in velvet and wool double-face: garments that make movement, expression, and dance itself visible.

The Fabric of Dance

The New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is among the most celebrated classical music events in the world. In 2026, it will be conducted for the first time by Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The concert was broadcasted on January 1, 2026, as a coproduction of ORF and the Vienna Philharmonic to 150 countries worldwide.

For those who would like to watch the New Year’s Concert again, please click on the link below for the resprective broadcast station in your country.

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