Problem
My family in Singapore missed their favourite New Year's Day activity, watching the concert from Vienna, Austria, with ballet dancing accompanying the music, pictures of the grand concert hall, an informative commentary on the music, musicians and city, and sometimes a travelogue around Vienna or Austria. Unfortunately, the BBC broadcasts, even if you have paid your license fee in the UK, are not available in outside the UK, as the notice on your screen informs you.
Answer
Fortunately, the concert is available on the iplayer for late watching throughout January. So, if you are returning home to the UK after New Year, or staying with a family in the UK which has BBC iplayer available, you can watch the concert.
Do you really want to watch it? You can find out by watching the brief trailer on YouTube.
We love the concert. The broadcast includes the grand gilded building adorned with flower displays, moments of glamour from the ballet costumes, skill from the dancers. The music is usually upbeat and the happy mood is often accentuated by humour from the conductor interacting with members of the orchestra.
You can re-live or revive your memories of a previous year's event and get a glimpse of the next one as a reminder to put it in your diary to watch it when you get the chance.
Here's the YouTube trailer for the 2017 concert showing the venue and the jollity of the occasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XxX00Bjjzk
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
My family in Singapore missed their favourite New Year's Day activity, watching the concert from Vienna, Austria, with ballet dancing accompanying the music, pictures of the grand concert hall, an informative commentary on the music, musicians and city, and sometimes a travelogue around Vienna or Austria. Unfortunately, the BBC broadcasts, even if you have paid your license fee in the UK, are not available in outside the UK, as the notice on your screen informs you.
Answer
Fortunately, the concert is available on the iplayer for late watching throughout January. So, if you are returning home to the UK after New Year, or staying with a family in the UK which has BBC iplayer available, you can watch the concert.
Do you really want to watch it? You can find out by watching the brief trailer on YouTube.
We love the concert. The broadcast includes the grand gilded building adorned with flower displays, moments of glamour from the ballet costumes, skill from the dancers. The music is usually upbeat and the happy mood is often accentuated by humour from the conductor interacting with members of the orchestra.
You can re-live or revive your memories of a previous year's event and get a glimpse of the next one as a reminder to put it in your diary to watch it when you get the chance.
Here's the YouTube trailer for the 2017 concert showing the venue and the jollity of the occasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XxX00Bjjzk
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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