Johann Strauss Snow-White Ball (rescheduled from December 18)

A long-standing European tradition to celebrate Christmas and New Year with the music of Johann Strauss, inspired the CONCORD ORCHESTRA to create an annual show on the New Year's Eve. Strauss music is so beautiful and harmonious that one wants to listen it repeatedly. The Johann Strauss Snow-White Ball New Year Show will help you to make sure of this.

This is a terrific event filled with the magnificent music of the waltz king and magical dances. The waltzes of the Viennese composer are considered by many to be the benchmark of dance music performed on New Year's Eve everywhere in the world.

On December 23, 2018, at 18:00, the CONCORD ORCHESTRA invites you to its annual Johann Strauss Snow-White Ball New Year Show. Traditionally, this New Year Eve show will be held on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace.

The new program of this show includes the most popular waltzes, polkas and marches: “The Imperial Waltz”, “Spring Voices”, “TheBlue Danube" and, of course, the world most famous waltz “Tales from the Vienna Woods” (“Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald”). The program completes with the famous “Radetzky March” (“Radetzky-Marsch”).

When the latter is performed, the audience usually beats the beat, and the conductor turns his face to them and conducts this applause.

The program involves by the CONCORD ORCHESTRA under the direction of artistic director and chief conductor Fabio Pirola (Italy), Vladimir Celebrovsky, Honored Artist of the Republic of Karelia, Tamara Marchenko, soloist of St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theatre and Larisa Elina, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The true adornment of the New Year's show will be the performance of dancers, prize-winners of Russia tournament in ballroom dances. Fans of the famous Viennese composer will be able to enjoy not only the splendor waltzes performed by the famous orchestra, but also ballroom dances of the best dance pairs of Russia. The annual Johann Strauss Snow-White Ball New Year Show Show  will be the brightest event in Moscow on the New Year's Eve.

It has become a good tradition to come to the Johann Strauss Snow-White Ball New Year Show  wearing  festive outfits. This time special Christmas gifts are prepared for all spectators in snow-white outfits! Your festive outfit should feature the  white color: a white dress, a white blouse or white shoes. All this will create an unforgettable atmosphere of unity of thousands of beautiful people in the festive snow-white outfits!

This year the symbol of the New Year show "Snow-white Ball of Johann Strauss" is a white carnation. Therefore, the Grand Concert Hall of the State Kremlin Palace on this day will have a festive decoration with thousands of snow-white carnations turning it into a snow-white fairy tale.

Participants:

CONCORD symphony orchestra

Artistic director and chief conductor Fabio PIROLA (Italy)

Choreographer Artem Mayorov

Dancers - prize-winners of Russian tournament in ballroom dancing

Vladimir Celebrovsky, Honored Artist of the Republic of Karelia

Tamara Marchenko, soloist of the St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theater

Larisa Yelina, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater

The show will be hosted by Nikolay Pozdeev, Honored Artist of Russia

Tickets purchased for the event of December 18 will be valid for the event on December 23.