The Musikverein Wien has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season.

Herbert Lippert Joins the Philharmonia Schrammeln for “Das is’ die Wiener G’müatlichkeit.”

Performance Dates: Sept. 29, 2025

Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch perform lieder by Antonín Dvořák, Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius

Performance Dates: Oct. 1, 2025

Martin Haselböck conducts the Orchester Wiener Akademie in a program by Bach. Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Hannah Fheodoroff, Daniel Johannsen, and Alexandre Baldo are the soloists

Performance Dates: Oct. 2, 2025

The ORF RSO Wien will be conducted by Markus Poschner. Robert Kovács and Paul Schweinester perform music by Lili Boulanger and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Günther Groissböck and Igor Levit team up for lieder by Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Franz Liszt, and Gustav Mahler.

Tugan Sokhiev, Dirigent conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in music by Johann Strauss II with soloist Nikola Hillebrand.

Performance Dates: Oct. 25 & 26, 2025

Chen Reiss, Michaela Selinger, Jan Petryka, and Florian Boesch lead Haydn’s Mass. The Orchester Wiener Akademie and Wiener Sängerknaben will be conducted by Martin Haselböck. The program also includes Ján Krigovský and music by Mozart.

Marco Armiliato and Aigul Akhmetshina team up with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich. The program includes music by Chausson, Wagner, Mendelssohn, and Elgar.

Kate Lindsey and Georg Nigl perform Mozart alongside the Concentus Musicus Wien and Stefan Gottfried.

Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2025

Simona Eisinger, Flaka Goranci, Rainer Trost, Hans-Jörg Gaugelhofer, and Günter Haumerstar in Schubert’s Mass in E Flat Major.

Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2025

The Capella Istropolitana under Vasilis Tsitsianis will perform works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Sir Henry Bishop, Antonio Santana, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ernest Bloch, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Frühling and Johann Strauß Vater. Soloists include James Strauss, Aleksandra Szmyd, Inês Simões, Yulia Savrasova, Pacho Flores, Jitka Hosprova, and Liina Leijala.

Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2025

Shira Patchornik and violinist Alessandro Ciccolini perform music by Antonio Caldara, Nicola Matteis d.J., Giuseppe Porsile, and Antonio Vivaldi. Le Musiche Nove is conducted by Claudio Osele.

Performance Date: Nov. 16, 2025

The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Mari Eriksmoen and Anna Lucia Richter.

Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2025

The Ensemble Kontrapunkte under Gottfried Rabl will perform works by Kurt Schwertsik. Josipa Bainac and Georg Nigl are the soloists.

Performance Date: Nov. 23, 2025

Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov perform Schubert’s Winterreise.

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2025

The Ensemble Prisma under Thomas Fheodoroff performs works by Vivaldi and Corelli. Miriam Kutrowatz is the soloist and Johannes Prominczel moderates.

Performance Date: Nov. 25, 2025

Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov perform Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin.

Performance Date: Nov. 26, 2025

Marie-Sophie Janke will sing alongside Katharina Paul, Daria Rumiantseva, and Jingrui Wang in a program of music by Giovanni Bottesini, Jane Vignery, Robert Maxwell, Henriette Renié, and Richard Wagner.

Performance Date: Nov. 27, 2025

Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov perform Franz Schubert’s Sonate für Klavier B-Dur and Schwanengesang.

Performance Date: Nov. 28, 2025

The Wiener Symphoniker and Adam Fischer lead a program of music by Haydn and Mozart. The soloists are Katharina Konradi, Yajie Zhang, Mauro Peter, and Florian Boesch.

Performance Dates: Nov. 29, 30, & Dec. 1, 2025

The Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselböck will perform music by Bach with soloists Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Kathrin Zukowski, Alois Mühlbacher, Reginald Mobley, Daniel Johannsen, Benedikt Kristjánsson, Stefan Zenkl, and Felix Schwandtke.

Performance Date: Nov. 30, 2025

Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Te Deum with Elza van den Heever, Gerhild Romberger, Daniel Behle, and Kostas Smoriginas. Martha Argerich will perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto. The program opens with Johan Wagenaar’s Cyrano de Bergerac Ouvertüre.

Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2025

Vasilis Tsiatsianis conducts the Cappella Istropolitana in a program of music by Shostakovich, Puccini, Gounod, Dlibes, Liszt, Bizet, Verdi, John Francis Wade, Adolphe-Charles Adam, and Tchaikovsky. Tehmine Schaeffer and 7RAY are the soloists.

Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2025

The Concentus Musicus Wien under Stefan Gottfried will perform Bach. The soloists are Emőke Baráth, Olivia Vermeulen, Werner Güra, and Manuel Walser.

Performance Dates: Dec. 13 & 14, 2025

Nikola Hillebrand and Kate Lindsey perform Wagner, Zamlinsky, Berg, and Joseph Marx. The Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich is led by Fabien Gabel.

Performance Dates: Dec. 14 & 16, 2025

Erwin Ortner conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with Florian Boesch.

Performance Date: Dec. 20, 2025

Markus Landerer conducts the Wiener Domorchester and Wiener Domchor in a program of music of Haydn and Gottfried August Homilius.

Performance Date: Dec. 21, 2025

The Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and Alfred Eschwé will conduct Kathrin Zukowski in a concert.

Performance Dates: Jan. 3, 4, 5 & 9, 2026

Tehmine Schaeffer and 7RAY are the soloists in a program of music by Johann Strauß Sohn, Camille Saint-Saëns, Aram Chatschaturjan, Rudolf Sieczynski, Giacomo Puccini, Jacques Offenbach, Georges Bizet, Franz Lehár, Charles Gounod, and Léo Delibes. The Cappella Istropolitana will be conducted by Vasilis Tsiatsianis.

Performance Date: Jan. 4, 2026

Francisco Navarro Lara conducts “Concert for Lovers” with flautist Francisca Gavilán Zurita, soprano Nathalie Peña Comas, and Jörg Schneider. The concert includes music by Tchaikowsky, Dvořák, Mascagni, Offenbach, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Massenet, Strauß Sohn, and Ravel.

Performance Date: Feb. 14, 2026

Patricia Nolz joins the Ensemble Wien in music by Weber, Mozart, Rossini, Camilla Frydan, Friedrich Cerha, and Oscar Straus.

Performance Date: Feb. 15, 2026

Sophie Druml, Ines Schüttengruber, Katharina Wegscheider, and Johannes Prominczel lead an evening of music.

Performance Date: Feb. 19, 2026

Stefan Gottfried conducts the Concentus Musicus Wien in Brahms Deutsche Requiem. The soloists are Nikola Hillebrand and Florian Boesch.

Performance Dates: March 5 & 6, 2026

Michaela Resch and Irina Fuchs perform lieder by Strauss, Mendelssohn-Hensel, Alma Schindler-Mahler, Clara Schumann, Schönberg, Johanna Kinkel, Sibelius, Schubert, Eino Leino, Irina Fuchs, Kaija Saariaho, Brahms, and Michaela Resch.

Performance Date: March 7, 2026

Marianne Crebassa and Alphonse Cemin perform in recital a program of music by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Federico Mompou, Jesús Guridi, and Manuel de Falla.

Kateřina Kněžíková, Jarmila Vantuchová, Daniel Matoušek, and Jan Hnyk will perform Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Jakub Hrůša conducts the Bamberger Symphoniker.

The ORF RSO Wien will be conducted by Maxime Pascal in a program that includes music by Debussy, Chaya Czernowin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Sofia Jernberg and Keren Motseri are the soloists.

Performance Date: March 27, 2026

Peter Tiefengraber conducts the Orchester von St. Augustin and Chor von St. Augustin in Mozart and Schubert. Soloists includes Thomas Lukschander, Eva Maria Schmid, and Johanna Krokovay.

Performance Date: April 5, 2026

Elim Chan conducts the ORF RSO Wien in music by Shostakovich and Berlioz. Alexander Vinogradov is the soloist.

Performance Date: April 11, 2026

Sophie Rennert and Lukas Sternath perform Schumann and Brahms.

Performance Date: April 14, 2026

Il Giardino Armonico and the Kammerorchester Basel perform Haydn. Giovanni Antonini conducts and Giulia Semenzato is the soloist.

Performance Date: April 15, 2026

Julia Kleiter and Konstantin Krimmel perform Richard Strauss’ Orchesterlieder. The program also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6. The Staatskapelle Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann.

Performance Dates: April 18 & 19, 2026

Max Müller and Volker Nemmer lead a recital of music by Mahler and Alma Mahler.

Performance Dates: April 25 & 26, 2026

Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide perform Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.

Performance Date: April 29, 2026

The Bach Consort Wien is conducted by Rubén Dubrovsky in music by Handel. Kathrin Zukowski is the soloist.

Performance Date: April 30, 2026

The Ensemble Kontrapunkte is joined by Gottfried Rabl and Georg Klimbacher in a program of music by Tania Rubio, Gerald Finzi, Carl Vine, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Performance Dates: May 2, 2026

Andris Nelsons and Wiebke Lehmkuhl lead Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Performance Dates: May 2 & 3, 2026

Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená team up with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for Haydn, Ondřej Adámek, and Brahms.

Performance Dates: May 12, 2026

Yutaka Sado conducts a Burckner program with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and soloists Aleksandra Szmyd, Anja Mittermüller, Attilio Glaser, and Edwin Crossley-Mercer.

Performance Dates: May 15 & 17, 2026

Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in Act one of Wagner’s “Die Walkure” with Sarah Wegener, Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor, and Vitalij Kowaljow. The program also includes Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1.

Performance Date: May 19, 2026

Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir and Kunal Lahiry lead a reictal featuring music by Samuel Barber, Nico Muhly, Jean Sibelius, Errollyn Wallen, Judith Weir, Sergei Rachmanioff, Lyra Pramuk, Deborah Pritchard, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Joseph Haydn, Déodat de Sevèrac, Maurice Ravel, and Margaret Bonds.

Performance Date: May 19, 2026

Daniele Gatti conducts Verdi’s Requiem with Eleonora Buratto, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, and Michele Pertusi.

Performance Date: May 23, 2026

Fabio Biondi conducts Europa Galante in a program of music by Dario Castello, Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Farina, Sigismondo d’India, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. Ian Bostridge is the soloist.

Performance Date: May 23, 2026

Patricia Nolz and Malcolm Martineau will perform Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, and Zemlinsky.

Performance Date: May 29, 2026

Händel’s Oratorio per la Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesù will star Ana Maria Labin, Nicolò Balducci, Terry Wey, João Terleira, and Alexandre Baldo. Martin Haselböck conducts the Orchester Wiener Akademie.

Performance Date: May 30, 2026

Petr Popelka conducts Robert Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri” with Julia Kleiter, Marie Smolka, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Andrew Staples, Patrick Grahl, and Matthias Goerne. The Wiener Symphoniker and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien also perform.

Performance Dates: June 13 & 14, 2026