New Year's Eve Celebration

The Philadelphia Orchestra is ringing in the new year at Marian Anderson Hall, The Kimmel Center, on December 31, 2026. Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop returns to the podium for the New Year's Eve Celebration, a concert that runs about two hours including the intermission.

The program is a wide-ranging mix of waltzes, showpieces, and orchestral miniatures. It opens with J. Strauss Jr.'s Overture to Die Fledermaus, followed by 'Juba: Allegro' from his Symphony No. 3. From there, the set moves through Collins' Cowboy's Breakdown, Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker, and Piazzolla's Winter in Buenos Aires from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The second half brings Waxman's Carmen Fantasy, R. Strauss' Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No. 1.

Alsop is a familiar face here, returning as Principal Guest Conductor to lead the evening. The Guardian has described her as an "extraordinarily gifted, history-making conductor," and its critic called her work "a high-voltage, heart-on-sleeve performance, thrillingly played."

The concert starts at 7 PM at Marian Anderson Hall, inside The Kimmel Center at 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102. With the music wrapping up around 9 PM, it leaves plenty of the night left for whatever you've got planned after.