Announcing an important
partnership with
SOS Children’s Villages Canada!
Toronto will once again celebrate the New Year
in traditional Viennese style!
Salute to Vienna is returning to Roy
Thomson Hall on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 at 2:30p.m.
to delight its audience with the glorious music, song and dance
of Vienna’s ‘Waltz King’, Johann Strauss Jr., and his contemporaries.
What a fantastic way to ring in the New Year!
This season Salute to Vienna is proud
to announce an important partnership with a worldwide charity organization.
With National offices based in Ottawa, SOS Children’s Villages
Canada is part of the world’s largest orphan-focused charity,
operating in more than 130 countries. With its roots in post World
War II Austria, SOS Children's Villages has spread
around the world as a beacon of hope for children in need. It provides
long-term, family-based care to orphaned and abandoned children,
giving them security, support, education, training and the life
skills to become active and involved citizens in their communities.
Just as Salute to Vienna provides joy and inspiration
to its audiences, SOS Children’s Villages provides love and
security to children in need. Visit
www.soschildrensvillages.ca
and help celebrate the 60th anniversary of SOS
Children’s Villages!
Now in its 14th year, Salute to Vienna
performances have continuously sold out in major concert halls across
North America. Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, Place des Arts in Montreal,
the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa,
the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Lincoln Center in New York,
the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, the Walt Disney Concert Hall
in Los Angeles are but a few of the 25 venues simultaneously celebrating
the New Year with Salute to Vienna! This ‘old-world’
tradition has been strongly embraced by ‘new-world’ audiences!
A Salute to Vienna invitation has become a coveted
prize for the best of Europe’s artistic community. Once again, a
talented cast of both new and seasoned performers will grace the
stages of all Salute to Vienna performances. Each
Salute to Vienna concert boasts a brilliant cast of
over 70 performers, featuring renowned international singers and
dancers accompanied by a full Symphony orchestra.
The Toronto concert will be hosted by the acclaimed Maestro Guido Mancusi
(Vienna) who will lead the full Strauss Symphony
of Canada in this joyful celebration of Viennese music.
The hall will resound with the beautiful voices of talented
soprano
Zsuzsa Kalocsai and distinguished tenor Dániel Vadász (both from
Budapest) as
they perform arias and duets from some of the best-loved operettas
including "Die Fledermaus" and the "Gypsy Baron" by Johann Strauss
Jr., or excerpts from the famous "Merry Widow" by Franz Lehár. In
addition, beautifully costumed dancers from the Budapest Ballet
will swirl and glide across the stage as they perform the popular
Viennese waltzes and polkas live on stage.
For more than 70 years, Vienna’s famous Neujahrskonzert has
been a sell-out.
Concertgoers purchase tickets years in advance for the Vienna Philharmonic’s
New Year’s Concert in the Musikverein, whose stage is decorated
with flowers given by the city of San Remo, Italy. This year’s star
conductor will be Maestro Daniel Barenboim.
The lilting melodies of Strauss, Lehár
and Mozart will also soar in the sumptuous halls of the Habsburg
Palace and linger in the cafés of Vienna where music lovers savour
Apfelstrudel and Sachertorte.
The magic of Vienna’s New Year’s Concert is shared via television
with a worldwide audience that numbers in excess of a billion viewers
each year. However, North Americans now have the opportunity to
experience a live festive Neujahrskonzert in not less
than 25 major centers. Salute to Vienna is the only
genuine re-creation in the United States and Canada of its Viennese
sister and is officially recognized by the Mayor of Vienna as an
authentic Viennese New Year’s celebration.
Celebrate the New Year with this Roy Thomson Hall tradition, Salute to Vienna, live on
January 1, 2009 at
2:30p.m. and see for yourself why this is the
World’s
Greatest New Year’s Concert! What Nutcracker is to Christmas,
Salute to Vienna is to the New Year!
Ticket prices for Salute to Vienna start at $55.00.
To purchase tickets, visit
www.roythomson.com
or call 416-872-4255. For information, please call 1-800-545-7807
or visit www.salutetovienna.com.
Discounted admission is available for groups of 10 or more.
Salute to Vienna Contact:
Attila Glatz
Attila Glatz Concert Productions Inc.
77 Bloor Street West, Suite 1801
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1M2
Email: glatz1@glatzconcerts.com
Tel. 416-323-1403
SOS Children’s Villages Canada Contact:
Kelsey Lemon
200 – 244 Rideau Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5Y3
Email: k.lemon@soschildrensvillages.ca
Tel. 613-232-3309 ext 21 or 800-767-5111
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