On 13 April 2025, the Wiener Symphonikers' first spring festival Primavera da Vienna came to an end in Trieste. With an afternoon of chamber music concerts in Trieste's city centre to kick things off and three concerts in the Politeama Rossetti, the orchestra of the City of Vienna thrilled the audience. More than 3,900 visitors enjoyed the concerts under chief conductor Petr Popelka. 

The TV concert on stream

ORF III broadcast the brilliant final concert of the festival with Michael Spyres and Christoph Stradner as soloists and works by Johann Strauss Sohn, Josef Strauss, Franz Lehár and Piotr I. Tchaikovsky on Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025 in the main evening programme. Arte Concert will stream the concert from 2 May 2025.

Documentary about Trieste and the Wiener Symphoniker

The ORF 2 documentary ‘Vienna by the Sea - The Symphoniker in Trieste’ accompanies the orchestra through the city and goes in search of traces of the ‘Vienna by the Sea’, the shared history, common traditions, but also differences. The documentary was shown for the first time on 1 May 2025 as part of the public holiday matinee.