Program 2026
Festival of Joy: Thematic focus on "Perpetrators in National Socialism"
| Lucy Waldstein, contemporary witness | ||
| Ingo Metzmacher, conductor | ||
| Eleanor Lyons, soprano | ||
| Magda, singer | ||
| Vienna Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Time | Schedule | |
| Start 07:30 p.m |
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Franz Schreker: "Phantastische Ouvertüre" (Fantastic Overture) for large orchestra op.15 |
| Welcome remarks | by host Katharina Stemberger | |
| Willi Mernyi | Welcome address by the chariman of Mauthausen Committee Österreich | |
| Alexander Van der Bellen | Speech by the President of the Repbulic of Austria | |
| Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Bohuslav Martinů: "Památník Lidicím" (Memorial to Lidice), elegy for orchestra H.296 | |
| Paul Abraham: "Toujours l’amour" from the operetta "Ball at the Savoy" | ||
| Magda: "Wandrisse" (Wall Cracks), attanged by Eirik Berge | ||
| Magda: "Pflaster" (Pflaster), attanged by Eirik Berge | ||
| Fritz Kreisler: "Liebesleid" (Love´s Sorrow) for violin and orchestra from "Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen" (Old Viennese Dances) | ||
| Lucy Waldstein | Contribution by contemporary witness Lucy Waldstein | |
| Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Richard Strauss: "Malven", song for soprano and piano, TrV 297 (attanged for soprano and orchestra by Wolfgang Rihm) | |
| Richard Strauss: "Lied der Frauen" (Song of women) from Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten (Six Songs and poems) by Clemens Brentano op. 68 TrV 235 | ||
| Robert Schindel | Reading of a contribution on the thematic focus "Perpetrators in National Socialism" by Katharina Stemberger | |
| Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Kurt Weill: Symphonie Nr. 2, 3. movement (Allegro vivace-Presto) | |
| Magda: "Brich mich" (Break me), arranged by Eirik Berge | ||
| Ende | As every year, the celebration concludes with Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy" from the Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven. |