Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, Derek Welton, Gerald Finley, Freddie de Tommaso, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, & Piotr Beczała Lead Wiener Konzerthaus’ 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.
VOCES8 leads a program of music by William Byrd, Virgil Thomson, Caroline Shaw, Morten Lauridsen, William Billings, Bobby McFerrin, Eric Whitacre, Taylor Scott Davis, Samuel Barber, Richard Rodgers, and Billy Strayhorn.
Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2026
The Mahler Academy Orchestra will be joined by Fleur Barron and Philipp von Steinaecker in music by Mahler.
Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2026
Piotr Beczała joins Marco Boemi and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in works by Wagner, Giordano and Puccini.
Performance Date: Sept. 26, 2026
Katharina Rothen, Franziska Lermer, and David Kropfreiter lead a program of music by Robert Schumann, Franz Lehár, Richard Strauss, Dmitri Schostakowitsch and Sergej Prokofjew.
Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2026
The Musicbanda Franui will be joined by Anja Mittermüller, Julian Prégardien, and Florian Boesch for a Schubert program.
Performance Date: Oct. 9, 2026
Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2026
The Klangforum Wien will be joined by Otto Katzameier and Sylvain Cambreling in a program of music by Salvatore Sciarrino and Isabel Mundry.
Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2026
Cantando Admont perform music by Solage, Filipoctus de Caserta, Johannes Ciconia, Jacob de Senleches, and Morton Feldman.
Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber take on the music of Schumann.
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2026
Ton Koopman conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in Mozart’s “Requiem” with Julia Lezhneva, Maarten Engeltjes, Julian Prégardien, and Krešimir Stražanac. The concert also includes music by Haydn.
Performance Dates: Nov. 2 & 3, 2026
Julian Prégardien and Feride Büyükdenktaş join Saskia Giorgini in a program of Schubert.
Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2026
The Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon will perform Mozart “Messe” and Schubert’s “Stabat Mater.” The concert will include soloists Lea Desandre, Kieran Carrel, and Huw Montague Rendall.
Performance Date: Nov. 6, 2026
The King’s Singers take on works by John Rutter, Thomas Weelkes, Robert Parsons, Ludwig Senfl, Hildegard von Bingen, Sir James MacMillan, Luciano Berio, Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Makiko Kinoshita, Tōru Takemitsu, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, and Paul Patterson.
Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2026
Nikola Hillebrand and Andrè Schuen join forces for works by Schumann with Julius Drake.
Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2026
A nocte temporis and Reinoud Van MechelenTenor will perform music by Bach.
Performance Date: Nov. 19, 2026
Andrè Schuen and Petr Popelka join the Wiener Symphoniker in music by Mahler.
Performance Date: Nov. 20, 2026
The Wiener KammerOrchester will be joined by Martina Neubauer and Joji Hattori in music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Carl Maria von Weber, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Gounod, Johann Strauß, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Performance Date: Nov. 20, 2026
Andrè Schuen and Petr Popelka join the Wiener Symphoniker for works by Gustav Mahler.
Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2026
Anna Netrebko performs Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” alongside Alexander Köpeczi and Henrik Nánási and Hungarian Rundfunk-SinfonieorchesterOrchester. Misi Boros is the pianist in Liszt’s Piano concerto No. 1.
Performance Date: Dec. 2, 2026
The Constellation Choir & Ensemble under Sir John Eliot Gardiner will lead works by Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Lajos Bárdos, Giovanni Bassano, Herbert Howells, William Byrd, Johann Gottfried Walther, Robert Armstrong, John Gardner, and Thomas Weelkes.
Performance Date: Dec. 3, 2026
The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will perform with Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Daniel Harding in a program of Mahler and Brahms.
Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2026
Gerald Finley and Julius Drake perform in recital in music by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Benjamin Britten, and Irving Berlin.
Performance Date: Dec. 5, 2026
The Remix Ensemble Casa da Música will perform music by Luciano Berio, Emmanuel Nunes, and Pierre Boulez.
Elīna Garanča and Freddie de Tommaso perform works by Händel, Schubert, Brahms, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky alongside Karel Mark Chichon and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Performance Date: Dec. 10, 2026
The Klangforum Wien will feature Viktoriia Vitrenko, Florian Bogner, and Bas Wiegers in a program of music by György Ligeti, Mark Andre, and György Kurtág.
Performance Date: Dec. 10, 2026
Alessandro De Marchi conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Teile I, II, IV und VI. Anna-Lena Elbert, Beth Taylor, Daniel Johannsen, and Tomáš Král.
Performance Dates: Dec. 20 & 21, 2026
Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Klangforum Wien in music by Hans Werner Henze. Julia Bullock and Peter Tantsits are the soloists.
Performance Date: Jan. 12, 2027
Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau take on the music of Zemlinsky and Liszt.
Performance Date: Jan. 13, 2027
John Butt conducts Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Belshazzar” with Ed Lyon, Nardus Williams, Beth Taylor, Matthew Brook, and Alexander Chance.
Performance Date: Jan. 16, 2027
Václav Luksconducts the Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 in music by Jan Dismas Zelenka. Tereza Zimková, Aneta Petrasová, Ondřej Holub, and Tomáš Šelc star.
Performance Date: Jan. 23, 2027
Jordi Savall conducts Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis” with Le Concert des Nations and soloists Lina Johnson, Olivia Vermeulen, Martin Platz, and Manuel Walser.
Julian Prégardien and Cornelius Obonya perform works by Schubert.
Performance Date: Feb. 11, 2027
The ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien under Marin Alsop perform music by Händel with Anja Om, Chanda Rule, and Zwakele Tshabalala.
Performance Date: Feb. 13, 2027
The Constellation Choir & Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner lead Bach’s “Messe h-moll.”
Performance Date: Feb. 16, 2027
Camila Mandillo and Filipe Gaio Pereira team up for a recital of music by Olivier Messiaen, Ruth Schönthal, Richard Strauss, and Bushra El-Turk.
Performance Date: Feb. 17, 2027
Jan Willem de Vriendconducts the Wiener KammerOrchester and Juliette Khalil in Mahler and Berg.
The Wiener Symphoniker will showcase music by Fauré, Berlioz, and Franck. The concert will feature Benjamin Bernheim and Matthew Halls.
Performance Dates: Feb. 25 & 26, 2027
Elionor Martinez and Josep Maria Martí take on the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, Alfonso Ferrabosco der Jüngere, John Dowland, Richard Nicholson, Francesca Caccini, Georg Friedrich Händel, and Anna Campmany.
Performance Date: March 9, 2027
Georg Zeppenfeld and Gerold Huber perform Schubert and Brahms.
Performance Date: March 13, 2027
Philippe Herreweghe leads the Collegium Vocale Gent in Bach’s “St Matthew Passion.” Soloists include Mauro Peter, Florian Boesch, Marie-Luise Werneburg, Johanna Ihrig, Alex Potter, Benno Schachtner, Samuel Boden, Hugo Bradley, Samuel Hasselhorn, and Jonas Müller.
Performance Date: March 18, 2027
Huw Montague Rendall and Carrie-Ann Matheson team up for Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove, Arnold Schönberg, and Gustav Mahler.
Tenebrae Choir will showcase music by Orlando di Lasso, Philip Moore, Caroline Shaw, Owain Park, Joanna Marsh, Orlando Gibbons, Gregorio Allegri, Sir John Tavener, Anton Bruckner, Sergej Rachmaninoff, Pawel G. Tschesnokow, James McMillan, and Gustav Holst.
Performance Date: April 1, 2027
Mirga Gražinytė-TylaDirigentin conducts Mieczysław Weinberg’s “Die Passagierin” with Iurii Samoilov, Adrienn Miksch, Anna Gorbachyova, Lidia Vinyes-Curtis, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Nadezhda Karyazina, Olivia Doray, Helen Field, Liuba Sokolova, Daveda Karanas, Nikolai Schukoff, Géraldine Dulex, Albert Casals, Marcell Bakonyi, and Hrólfur Sæmundsson.
Performance Date: April 6, 2027
Jan Willem de Vriend conducts the Wiener KammerOrchester in music by Beethoven with Sara Blanch, Pavol Breslik, and Alexander Grassauer.
Performance Dates: April 7 & 8, 2027
Patricia Nolz and Malcolm Martineau perform in recital in music by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Alexander Zemlinsky.
Performance Date: April 10, 2027
The Wiener KammerOrchester will perform music by Ives, Handel, Montgomery, Beranek, and Bach. Anja Mittermüller is the soloist and Johannes Beranek conducts.
Performance Date: April 16, 2027
Patrick Hahn conducts the Wiener Symphoniker and Natalie Lewis in Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow, Lili Boulanger, and Sergej Rachmaninoff.
Performance Dates: April 18 & 19, 2027
Sir Simon Rattle conducts London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with Beth Taylor as the soloist.
Performance Date: April 24, 2027
Kent Nagano conducts the Dresdner Festspielorchester in “The Ring Cycle” with Derek Welton, Johannes Kammler, Mauro Peter, Tansel Akzeybek, Annika Schlicht, Sarah Wegener, Gerhild Romberger, Daniel Schmutzhard, Thomas Ebenstein, Christian Immler, Patrick Zielke, Ric Furman, Åsa Jäger, Thomas Blondelle, and Tölzer Sängerknabe.
Performance Dates: May 1-9, 2027
The Orchester der J. S. Bach-Stiftung under Rudolf Lutz perform works by Bach with Elvira Bill and Daniel Johannsen.
Performance Date: May 20, 2027
Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy perform music by Claude Debussy, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Alma Mahler, Franz Liszt, Mel Bonis, and Marguerite Canal.
Performance Date: May 25, 2027
Julian Prégardien, Daniel Heide, Anja Mittermüller, and Richard Fu perform music by Beethoven and Schubert.
Performance Date: June 3, 2027
Company of Music will perform works by Luciano Berio, Caroline Shaw, Henry Purcell, Carola Bauckholt, Manuela Kerer and Claudio Monteverdi.
Performance Date: June 6, 2027
Jakub Hrůša conducts Bamberger Symphoniker in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and 9 with soloists Louise Alder, Jingwen Cai, Thomas Atkins, and Nicholas Brownlee.
Performance Date: June 6, 2027
Marin Alsop conducts Britten’s “War Requiem.” The ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien will be joined by Eleanor Lyons, Paul Appleby, and Andrè Schuen.
Performance Date: June 11, 2027
