New Year’s Eve Menu with Mozart’s Most Famous Arias

Highlights

• Celebrate New Year’s Eve against the wonderful backdrop of the Baroque Boccaccio Hall at the Grand Hotel Bohemia
• A sumptuous 6-course dinner awaits you, together with a packed musical programme featuring Mozart’s most famous arias
• Beverages included: welcome drink, unlimited water and soft drinks, bottle of wine per person, cup of coffee or tea
• Starting at midnight you can also dance to live music
• There are 4 price categories: a table for 2 in the first row, a table for 2, a table for, and box seating 4 to 8

Main description

Celebrate the arrival of 2024 in Prague in style. Enjoy a six-course dinner and listen to famous musical pieces played by artists dressed in period costumes.

Menu and programme

7:30 p.m. Welcome Drink & Amuse-bouche

8:00 p.m. Foie Gras Pralines with shallot chutney and wild fruits

8:30 p.m. Don Giovanni

• Aria Leporella – “Notte e giorno faticar”
• Duet Zerlina and Masetto – “Giovinette che fate l’amore”
• “A Little Night Music – Allegro” (1st movement)
• Aria Zerlina – “Batti, batti o bel Masetto”
• “A Little Night Music – Romance” (2nd movement)
• Duet Giovanni and Zerlina – “La ci darem la mano”

8:50 p.m. Strong poultry broth with root vegetables and ravioli filled with poultry liver

9:20 p.m. The Best of Mozart’s Operas

• Aria Figaro – “Non più andrai” (The Marriage of Figaro)
• Aria Cherubino – “Voi che sapete” (The Marriage of Figaro)
• “Divertimento in D major – Allegro”
• Aria Leporella – “Madamina” (Don Giovanni)
• “Divertimento in D major – Presto”
• Duet Susanna and Figaro – “Tutto è tranquillo… Pace, pace” (The Marriage of Figaro)

9:50 p.m. Lime sorbet with a drop of vodka

10:20 p.m. The Magic Flute

• Duet Papageno and Pamina – “Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen”
• “A Little Night Music – Menuetto” (3rd movement)
• Aria Pamina – “Ach ich fühl’s”
• Aria Papageno – “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”
• Duet Papageno a Papagena – “Pa-pa”

10:40 p.m. Grilled duck breast with foie gras sauce, red cabbage jam and roasted potato gnocchi

11:10 p.m. New Year’s Eve

• Kaiser Walzer – J. Strauss Jr.
• “All I Ask of You” – A. L. Webber
• “Unter Donner und Blitz” Polka schnell – J. Strauss
• “Meine Lippen Sie küssen so heiß…” – F. Lehár
• Aria Don Giovanni – “Finch’han dal vino” (Don Giovanni)
• “Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka” – J. Strauss
• “Lippen schweigen” – F. Lehár

11:30 p.m. Small cake with chocolate froth, banana cream and raspberry sauce

11:58 p.m. New Year’s Toast. In line with an old Czech tradition, lentils with ham and all sorts of extras are served at midnight. Doing so is said to bring prosperity in the following year.

00:00 New Year’s Waltz

• “The Blue Danube Waltz” – Johann Strauss
• “Wiener Blut” – Johann Strauss

00:15 a.m. – 1:30 a.m. Possibility of dancing on Franck Sinatra's most beautiful songs performed by soloist Daniel Klánský accompanied by a pianist

Before you go

• Dress code: formal