Opening 09
Opening09
Copyright: Paul Kranzler
31 December 08 – 2 January 09
Idea / Concept: Linz 09 / Iris Mayr
A three day opening gala for its visitors from at home and abroad will be the signal for Linz to blast off on its European mission. Cultural venues, restaurants, pubs and bars will be wide open for visitors during the whole electrifying countdown. At midnight Capital of Culture Year will be ushered in with fireworks above the Danube and with all kinds of musical surprises. The Danube and its embankments between the new Ars Electronica Centre, the Nibelungen bridge, the Lentos Kunstmuseum and the Brucknerhaus will host a dazzling and colourful spectacle. New Year’s Day will see a combination of tradition and things to come. Folkloristic presentations, inaugurations, the openings of important exhibitions and previews of the programme of Linz09 will set the agenda in the centre of a city that will probably react to all this with its usual insouciance and a mixture of self-affirmation and international flair. And on 2nd January Linz09 will concentrate on the neighbourhoods, the suburbs and the outlying districts, making sure that the banner of Capital of Culture Year is hoisted everywhere.
3-2-1 All of Linz is a Stage
31 December 08
10 pm Lead-in to the Capital of Culture year on the Main Square, in the Old City, along the banks of the Danube and around the Nibelungen Bridge
12 pm Raketensinfonie above the Danube - Tom Ryser, Orlando Gough and The Shout, as well as choral groups from throughout the Province of Upper Austria: A world premiere featuring 800 singers and fireworks.
Afterwards: New Year's Eve party alfresco, in bars, restaurants and clubs.
1 January 09
11 am Traditional Aperschnalzen in fron of the Landhaus
4 pm Opening Concert Linz09 at the Brucknerhaus Linz featuring the Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
7 pm Opening of Best of Austria at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2 January 09
1 pm Opening of the new Ars Electronica Center
2 pm All of Linz is Capital of Culture - Linz09 in the Neighbourhoods
The detailed programme of the ceremonial opening with all events and what else is on offer will be available from mid-October 08.
WHERE //
Hauptplatz and Danube Embankment (31 December 08), Linz City Centre (1 January 09), Outlying districts of Linz (2 January 09)
A Linz09 project
