PSO November 22, 2025 Concert "A Vienna New Year's Celebration"
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Contact: Mark Miller (908-561-5140)
Website: www.plainfieldsymphony.org
Join music director Charles Prince and the PSO for their next concert “Vienna New Year’s Celebration” on November 22, 2025, at 7 PM. You may be dancing in the aisles as PSO rings in the holiday season largely featuring music by Johann Strauss with returning artist, baritone Steven Scheschareg.
Johann Strauss II, known as “the Waltz King,” was a prolific composer famous for his Viennese waltzes, songs and operettas. You will be treated to a selection of some of his most famous works including the Overtures to The Gypsy Baron and Die Fledermaus, the Pizzicato Polka, the Thunder and Lightning Polka and several of his most endearing waltzes: Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. The Sphärenklänge, Walzer, Op. 235 by brother Josef Strauss will also be presented.
New York native Steven Scheschareg, a winner of the prestigious George London Prize of the Vienna State Opera and Grammy Award nominee, gained his early experiences in numerous Broadway musicals. Scheschareg began his operatic career in Europe and he continues to be invited to sing in theaters throughout the globe. As a concert singer, he performs regularly in Vienna’s Musikverein, Konzerthaus, Salzburg Festival, New York’s Lincoln Center, and other prestigious venues.
Steven is thrilled to be returning to perform the music of his ancestral homeland with the Plainfield Symphony, having helped celebrate its 100th Anniversary. He has also had the honor of performing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, and a Wagner Gala with arias from the Flying Dutchman and Die Walküre.
Mr. Scheschareg will sing “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” from Erich Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt. He will also treat us to several vocal gems by Johann Strauss II: “Als flotter Geist”, “Einst träumte mir” from his operetta Fürstin Ninetta, and “Her die Hand, es muss ja sein” from the operetta Der Zigeunerbaron; as well as “Ob blond, ob braun” by Robert Stoltz from the movie Ich liebe alle Frau’n.
