{"id":8658,"date":"2025-02-14T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:28","slug":"the-presidents-new-years-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/the-presidents-new-years-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s New Year\u2019s Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Modelled on the famous New Year\u2019s Concerts at Vienna\u2019s Musikverein, The President\u2019s New Year\u2019s Concert offers the opportunity to experience this glamorous Viennese event in Malta.&nbsp; Audiences will be greeted upon arrival with a complimentary drink before the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s performance under the direction of charismatic Greek conductor Dionysis Grammenos and featuring the voice of internationally acclaimed Maltese soprano Nicola Said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In true Viennese style, the carefully selected programme will include well-known light orchestral music including&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe Blue Danube\u201d<\/em>, \u201c<em>Radetzky March\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;and von Supp\u00e9\u2019s \u201c<em>Light Cavalry Overture<\/em>\u201d. In addition, the concert will also include operatic arias from Gounod\u2019s \u201c<em>Rom\u00e9o et Juliette\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>and Bernstein\u2019s&nbsp;<em>\u201cCandide\u201d,<\/em>&nbsp;as well as much loved songs from&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>\u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This concert will take place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, beginning at 8.30pm and lasting approximately one hour without interval. Tickets are priced at \u20ac10 and \u20ac15 and are available from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcc.com.mt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.mcc.com.mt<\/a>. For further information, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltaorchestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.maltaorchestra.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31st December, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will ring in the New Year in style with a performance of operatic arias and rousing orchestral music in a very special New Year\u2019s Concert presented by Arts Council Malta and the Office of the President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8682,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}