July 16, 2026

Shown in Italy every year on Rai 2, this yearly January 1 classical music event was aired for the first time in Mongolia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago in 2010, after building up an audience in dozens of countries since the 1960s. Which concert of Strauss waltzes and polkas from Vienna's Musikverein do these audiences share?

A Danses concertantes
B Festival Internacional Cervantino
C Vienna New Year's Concert
D Concert of Europe

The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert (called Neujahrskonzert) has been held on January 1 every year since 1941 in the Musikverein's Great Hall. It is shown in Italy every year on Rai 2 and reached about 50 million viewers in over 90 countries, including a first-time broadcast to Mongolia in 2010.

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