Concerts for children, teenagers and families
2024/25 | 2025/26
At the Musikverein, children, young people and families have immersed themselves in a varied program for over 30 years. The lovingly staged concerts are unique. They are created in close collaboration with selected artists directly in and for the house—and our young audience. Each concert series is provided with an age recommendation and thus responds to children’s and young people’s needs. Playing along, dancing and singing along play an essential role at all concerts because musical development goes hand in hand with one’s actions.
Download: Brochure for children, young people and families (PDF)
Illustration by Mar Hernández (Malota)
© Igor Ripak
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Dodo und Tatz
Tatz, where are you? The little yellow dragon with the big paws and lots of stubble on his head loves to hide from his friend Dodo, because he is quite playful. It’s a good thing that so many instruments come to visit, because romping around with music is even more fun! With Dodo and Tatz, babies, toddlers and adults can move freely around the room, join in, sing or simply sit, listen and marvel.
A production of the Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for babies and toddlers up to the age of 3.
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Topolina
Alberto and the musical mouse Topolina, experience miniature musical adventures in the colourful everyday life of mice. The mouse girl with the pink ribbon on her head travelled from Italy to Vienna many years ago in a box of lettuce. She particularly enjoys making music, dancing and singing – especially when she is actively supported by her musical guests and you, dear children. A presto!
A production of the Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for audiences aged 3 and over.
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Sebastian und das Tontelefon
The signs are good for us
With catchy songs on their lips and a lot of mischief on their minds, sound researcher Sebastian and inventor Dr Willy Witzwurm embark on new adventures in the land of music. This time, too, Sebastian’s tuning fork, the legendary sound telephone, is a great help to the two friends. Nominated for the STELLA Performing Arts Award for Young Audiences!
A production of the Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for audiences aged 3 and over.
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Agathes Wunderkoffer
Agathe brings a lot of variety to the music this time: piano and violin let her float on a gentle cloud. Things get stormy with the cello and the clarinet. Agathe is unfamiliar with the instrument with its many buttons. Buttons belong on clothes! The saxophone and drums really get things moving. The wonder suitcase is always part of the party. Find out what’s hidden in it this time and join us on four musical journeys with surprisingly different sounds.
Production Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for audiences aged 4 and over.
© Dieter Nagl
© Julia Wesely
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Albertos Abenteuer
Alberto and his musical friends, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, plunge into three great adventures again. They experience unique stories that come to life on a large canvas with colorful illustrations. And this time, too, the help of all of you is needed when singing, dancing and playing together on stage. Because this is the only way to make the adventures a reality!
Production Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for children aged 5 and over.
Illustration by Mar Hernández (Malota)
Allegretto
“Allegretto”, the classic of our family concerts, has been bringing great musical stories to the stage of the Brahms Saal for over 30 years. In Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s world-famous ballet “Swan Lake”, music, dance and cinematic episodes merge into a magical visual world. With “The Wizard of Oz”, another classic tells an inspiring adventure for young and old in a dreamy, fantastic new setting with a magical stage play. In “The Loneliest Whale in the World”, we immerse ourselves in the underwater world of gentle giants with romantic, impressionistic music. There lives a whale that sings higher than all the others and therefore roams the seas alone. The animal became famous thanks to a documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio. Finally, the English gentleman Phileas Fogg travels around the world in a race against time in “Around the World in 80 Days”, a musical story based on Jules Verne.
Production Musikverein Wien.
Concerts for audiences aged 6 and over.
Illustration by Mar Hernández (Malota)
Flashlight Tours
The long-serving hall master Robert “Effi” Effenberger, a descendant of the legendary Rudolf Effenberger, will guide you through the quiet and abandoned Musikverein building. Performance in German. “Quiet? Leave? Reigning baton times! Someone wanders through the venerable house and stirs up Effi’s meticulously planned lectures. Notennerkuckuckswetter … This is outrageous, outrageous, who dares? Effi wants clarity – so, pull out flashlights and off we go! Holy music stand, who is it?” During the staged flashlight tour through the Musikverein, unique objects from our in-house music collection, historical personalities, and their stories are interactively brought into focus.
Dates 2025/26
Tickets go on sale for members two months before the event, with general advance sales starting one week later.
- Mon 5.1.2026, 13.00/15.00/17.00 h
Archive for children, youths and families.
Production Musikverein Wien. For everyone from 6 years of age.
Illustration by Mar Hernández (Malota)
Capriccio
Three concerts for a youthful and adult, but above all curious audience open up extraordinary worlds around timeless classics. In “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, actor Philipp Hochmair, reigning Everyman at the Salzburg Festival, presents selected ballads by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and many more in a modern, passionate and highly musical interpretation with musician Hanns Clasen
. In “Peter and the Wolf 2.0”, five musicians and a fantastic sand artist take on another world-famous work by setting the famous story to music in a new way – witty, contemporary and with singer-songwriter moments that will give you goosebumps. And finally, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s big moderated family concert is called “On the Sea”. Well-known works from orchestral, film and pop music bring the great sound of the sea and the elemental force of water into the Golden Hall.
Concerts for audiences aged 13 years of age and over.
