The City of Torino is now ready for two big events in the square, free of charge, for all tastes and ages to celebrate New Year’s Eve: a show on 31 December, to wait for midnight to the rhythm of pop and electronic music, and a classical music concert on 1 January.

It will be an opportunity to welcome the arrival of the New Year in a festive atmosphere and also to announce to the public two other important events involving the city: the celebrations for the bicentenary of the Egyptian Museum in 2024 and the return of the Winter Universiade to Turin in 2025.

"At the end of a year that has seen our city play an increasingly important role in major events and international tourism, we will welcome the arrival of the New Year with two free events in the square, designed to satisfy all musical tastes. It will be really nice to celebrate together and we are sure that the people of Turin, students and tourists will respond positively to our invitation," said Mayor Stefano Lo Russo.

Alessandro Ciro Sciretti, President of the Organising Committee of the Torino 2025 World University Games, which will be the theme of the New Year's Eve event, also commented: "We are one year away from an event that will have a great impact on Turin and the Piedmont region.

"The World University Games are returning home, to the place where they were born in 1959 and where every committee from every corner of the planet comes to light the flame of knowledge when they have to organise a summer and winter event. I am very happy that, together with the city, we have developed initiatives such as the ice rink in Piazza Solferino, which we inaugurated on 8 December with an exhibition of Italian talent, and such as this splendid evening, in which we will be protagonists projecting ourselves into 2024. New Year's Eve Torino 2025 will be a great party for everyone".

From 13 to 23 January 2025, Turin and the Piedmont region will host the World University Games Winter, which will bring together thousands of student-athletes from all over the world to compete in nine different winter sports and the nine BRAINstorm menthal challenges. 

The concert on 31 December will mark the start of the countdown to this great sporting event, offering the public a taste of the international atmosphere that will bring the excitement of the 2006 Olympic Games back to Turin and celebrate the university vocation of our city. The evening will be opened at 9 p.m. by the Chorale Universitaria di Torino, Italy's oldest university choir, which will perform the Gaudeamus Igitur, the official anthem of the Universiade, which has celebrated the joy and beauty of youth and academic life since the first edition of the Games was held in Turin in 1959.

The party atmosphere will then get into full swing with the Teenage Dream Party. The Teenage Dream cast will be completed by the Argentinian actress and singer Brenda Asnicar, known for her role as the antagonist in the series Il mondo di Patty 

The evening continues with Lo Stato Sociale, a collective from Bologna with special ties to Turin, which awarded them the Buscaglione Prize in 2012. They will lead the show towards midnight. Funny, light-hearted and profound at the same time, these five guys, who came to prominence at the 2018 Sanremo Festival with the song Una vita in vacanza, bring all the nuances of life to their lyrics, with a natural ability to tell reality with irony, even bitterness, and to unsettle the audience with their gimmicks on stage.

Kicking off the countdown to the New Year will be Mace, one of the most important and visionary producers of recent years. His electronic DJ set will mark time until the stroke of midnight. Daniela Collu, influencer, author of the famous blog Stazzitta, radio presenter, face of the X Factor and its spin-offs Extrafactor and Strafactor with Elio and Mara Maionchi, and Victor Kwality, Turin music star and producer, will guide us through this long night.

New Year's Eve 2024 is a project of the City of Torino, in collaboration with the World University Games Winter and realised by the Cooperativa Culturale Biancaneve under the artistic direction of Fabrizio Gargarone, with the contribution of Coop Fiorfood and Red Bull.

The evening of 31 December will also be enriched by the lighting of the Mole Antonelliana by Iren. From 8 p.m., the monument will be illuminated in a special "bubbly" colour, after the red of Christmas - 24, 25 and 26 December - and the blue that accompanied the rest of the month, thanks to the 2,500 LED strobe lights placed all over the tower and the dome of the monument.