Waltz Into Space Event

On 31 May, the European Space Agency will partner with the Vienna Tourist Board to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss II with a fantastic live performance beamed to the stars. The date is just one day after the 50th anniversary of the signing of the ESA Convention, the birthday of the space agency that has since landed on a comet and peered back to the earliest days of the Universe.

The agency’s 35 m-diameter deep-space dish antenna at Cebreros, Spain, will demonstrate its technical prowess on 31 May by transmitting The Blue Danube to its destined home among the stars, as performed in front of a live audience at Vienna’s MAK - Museum of Applied Arts by the renowned Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony

The transmission of the Blue Danube Waltz can also be followed via a global livestream on space.vienna.info and the Vienna Tourist Board's Instagram channel @vienna