Happy Birthday 2025! Happy Birthday Johann Strauss!
Advance booking for New Year's concert starts
After the great successes in 2023 and 2024, the festival:philharmonie westfalen will once again make a guest appearance in Beckum in 2025 with the support of Sparkasse Münsterland Ost.
As 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Waltz King Johann Strauss, the orchestra is dedicating itself entirely to the Austrian-German conductor and composer. With conductor Michael Zlabinger, it has a Viennese and true Strauss connoisseur in its ranks.
The musical director of the festival:philharmonie westfalen has put together a programme that places works by Strauss in relation to other composers of his era. These include precursors such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) and Johann Strauss Vater (1804 - 1849). But works by contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) and Richard Wagner (1813 - 1833) will also be heard. Michael Zlabinger will explain the mutual influences and adaptations to the audience in his usual knowledgeable and charming manner.
The second part of the programme consists exclusively of works by Johann Strauss Sohn himself - well-known arias, polkas and, of course, waltzes. These include "Entr'acte" from the operetta "Die Fledermaus", the fast-paced "Tik-Tak Polka" (op. 365) and the famous "Kaiserwalzer" (op. 437).
The audience can once again look forward to a highly interesting and entertaining concert evening with one or two birthday surprises.
Book your ticket now!
Tickets are available from 11 November at a pre-sale price of 32 euros at www.beckum.de/Kartenvorverkauf, in the Beckum town council offices and on the ticket hotline 02521 29-3350. The price at the box office is 35 euros.