New Year’s Eve: New Zealand as early as 2026 | EUROtoday

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New Zealand welcomed 2026 with fireworks launched from Auckland’s Sky Tower at midnight native time. In Japan, a crowd gathered at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo to listen to the bell ring at midnight and have a good time the arrival of 2026. In South Korea’s capital, Seoul, a bell-tolling ceremony and countdown have been held on the Bosingak Pavilion.

Rai2, the Wiener Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve

waltzes, polkas and quadrilles, the normal New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is that this 12 months entrusted to the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian maestro presently Musical Director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The occasion is proposed by Rai Cultura on Thursday 1 January at 1.30 pm on Rai 2. There shall be two reruns on Rai5: at all times on New Year’s Day at 10.20pm and on Saturday 3 January at 8.00am. For Nézet-Séguin, who boasts a consolidated collaboration with the Wiener Philharmoniker – he made his debut there in 2010 on the Mozart Week in Salzburg – that is the primary expertise conducting the distinguished occasion firstly of the 12 months, which since 1939 has been held each January 1st within the splendid golden corridor of the Musikverein.