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The Hallé and conductor Stephen Bell usher in 2022 with a joyful Viennese concert of music by the Strauss family and other composers. 

Amid stressful cancelations and last-minute program shifts, Xian Zhang offered thrilling interpretations of classic Beethoven and Rossini works in her Philadelphia Orchestra debut.

Christoph Altstaedt conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a charming programme of quintessentially Viennese music for New Year.

Imogen Cooper shone in Aurora's serious and fulsome performances of Mozart.

For The Cleveland Orchestra’s gala concert, music director Franz Welser-Möst offered a crowd-pleasing program of works inspired by Italy.

The fabulous new Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Wrocław presented a very original Silvester offering of Szymanowski, Grieg and Dvořák.

The Manchester Camerata under Alpesh Chouhan and soprano Olena Tokar welcomed the New Year with Johann Strauss favourites, five of Brahms's Hungarian Dances and a selection of arias.

De la trompette de Marc Geujon aux valses de Strauss, retour sur le concert du Nouvel An donné par l'Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse à La Filature et diffusé sur Facebook.

Die Münchner Residenz Solisten ließen bei ihrem Neujahrskonzert in kammermusikalischen Arrangements bekannter Klassik sinfonischen Orchesterklang kaum vermissen.

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Rome redonne vie à la Chauve-souris de Roland Petit au Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Pour Eleonora Abbagnato qui a pris la tête du Ballet de l’Opéra de Rome en 2015, ce choix chorégraphique est un manifeste incarnant son attachement à Paris et à Roland Petit.