New Year in Yerevan 2026–2027: New Year's Eve and Christmas

New Year in Yerevan begins with the December concerts and ends with Christmas on 6 January, and 31 December, 1 and 2 January and 6 January are days off. Below are the evenings worth planning the holidays around, with dates, hours and prices. New Year in Yerevan lists the holiday concerts and shows by date.

December, before the holiday

On Sunday 13 December at 20:00 the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall has the pre-holiday Tri-Legend evening: Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Michael Bublé songs sung by Armenian pop singers, with the Pop Symphony Orchestra playing live, for 6,000 to 12,000 drams. On Tuesday 22 December at 19:00 the Akunq State Ethnographic Ensemble gives National New Year, a programme of folk songs and dances, at the Babajanyan Concert Hall; the organiser's page gives no price. On Saturday 26 December at 19:30 the Varchafest gala brings bands from this year's competition, Red Line, Nushband, Folkastic and NORG among them, to the Karen Demirchyan Complex, with tickets from 5,000 to 30,000 drams.

Sunday 27 December has two concerts. At 16:00 at the Khachaturian Hall, Home Alone in concert puts scenes from the film on a big screen while the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra plays John Williams's score live (3,000 to 15,000 drams). At 20:00 at Red Hall, Candlenight gives a Christmas concert by the light of more than 5,000 candles (4,000 to 14,000 drams). On Wednesday 30 December at 19:00 the same orchestra plays Strauss waltzes, with dancers, at the Vienna Gala; the organisers ask for classical dress, and tickets cost 5,000 to 25,000 drams. The rest of the month is on December in Yerevan.

The Nutcracker and The Snow Queen at the Opera

The Opera's holiday ballet is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker: eighteen performances from 5 December to 12 February 2027. In the holiday week it plays on 29 and 30 December at 19:00, and on 31 December at 13:00, a matinee. Tickets cost 5,000 to 30,000 drams, the top price on 29, 30 and 31 December. Tigran Mansuryan's The Snow Queen, a ballet after Andersen's tale, is on 26 and 27 December at 18:00 (6,000 to 25,000 drams), then on 16 and 17 January and 4 February (5,000 to 22,000 drams).

Both are at the Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet Theatre, 54 Tumanyan Street. The rest of the season is on Opera and ballet in Yerevan, with dates and tickets.

New Year's Eve: three evenings at the Opera

On Thursday 31 December the Opera, at 54 Tumanyan Street, has three evenings, each starting at a different hour. The Opera Ball at 18:00 is the early one: arias from well-known operas sung by the theatre's soloists with its symphony orchestra and chorus, and champagne, for 6,000 to 30,000 drams. New Year's Eve in the Opera Cellar begins at 20:00: one ticket at 25,000 drams, champagne and refreshments included, and a jazz-folk concert by Vahagn Hayrapetyan and the Armenian Colors band.

New Year with the Stars at 22:00 is the one that carries on past midnight. Belinda Davids, Simone Romanato and Edward Khacharyan perform with the theatre's symphony orchestra until midnight, then the party moves to the foyer, with live music, dancing and a buffet until 04:00. The buffet is in the price, the dress code is evening wear, and tickets cost 6,000 to 45,000 drams. Earlier the same day, at 13:00, The Nutcracker is on the main stage.

With children

Fontania, a family water circus show at Tashir Arena, runs until 13 December, with December shows on the 5th, 6th, 9th and 13th (5,000 to 19,000 drams). Winter Tales, a family concert at the Komitas Chamber Music House on Fridays 11 and 18 December at 19:00, plays excerpts from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty (8,300 or 10,500 drams). A Gift for Santa Claus, a New Year show, is at the Bohem Theatre on Saturday 19 December at 12:00 and 14:00 (1,000 to 5,000 drams).

A New Year Without Wi-Fi, a children's show at the Youth Experimental Theatre, plays on 20 and 21 December and on 3 and 4 January at 11:00, 13:00, 15:00 and 19:00, and on 7 January at 11:00 and 13:00 (2,000 to 6,000 drams). Now or Later?, an interactive children's show, is on once, on Tuesday 29 December at 12:00 at the Karen Demirchyan Complex (3,000 to 7,000 drams). At the Opera, a family can go to The Nutcracker, the matinee on 31 December included. More is on Yerevan for children.

Christmas on 6 January

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates Christmas, the feast of the Holy Nativity and Theophany, on 6 January, and in Armenia it is a day off. Christmas Eve is the evening of 5 January, when the Chragaluyts, or Candlelight, liturgy is celebrated in every church, and afterwards people carry home the lamps they lit in church. Last season the Mother See's schedule, published on 30 December, had the evening service and Christmas Eve liturgy at 17:30 on 5 January and the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy with the Blessing of Water at 10:30 on 6 January, both in the Mother Cathedral at Etchmiadzin, and a national prayer service with the Blessing of Pomegranates there at midnight on 31 December.

In Yerevan, the evening of 6 January has I Love Christmas at the Opera at 18:00: Belinda Davids sings Christmas songs, All I Want for Christmas and Silent Night among them, and Whitney Houston's hits with the theatre's symphony orchestra, for 5,000 to 25,000 drams. A New Year Without Wi-Fi still plays on 7 January, and the rest of the month is on January in Yerevan.

In the city: the fair and the tree

Last season the city's main tree on Republic Square was lit on Sunday 14 December 2025 at 20:00, with a drone show and fireworks, and the New Year fair opened the same evening in Shahumyan Park beside the square, by the Erebuni-Yerevan 2750 fountains (the municipality's report). According to the municipality's call for vendors, the fair ran until 14 January 2026 inclusive, daily from 12:00 to 22:00 and until midnight on some days. A year earlier, in 2024, the tree was lit on 8 December. An indoor Christmas market ran at the Meridian Expo Center from 17 to 21 December 2025, and its organiser has not announced a 2026 edition yet. As of 11 November 2026, Yerevan Municipality has not announced this season's dates for the tree or the fair.

Last New Year's Eve, Republic Square had a concert, with a show of 2,026 drones and fireworks at midnight. That night the metro ran until 02:30 on 1 January, and from 23:45 to 00:15 trains did not stop at Republic Square station, Armenpress reported; the holiday hours were announced on 29 December. This year's plans for the square on New Year's Eve, and the metro's hours, have not been announced yet.

Days off over the holidays

Under Article 1 of the Law on Holidays and Memorial Days, New Year runs from 31 December to 2 January inclusive and Christmas is on 6 January, and all four are non-working days. This season that is Thursday 31 December, Friday 1 and Saturday 2 January, and Wednesday 6 January; for anyone who works Monday to Friday, 31 December to Sunday 3 January is four days off in a row. 7 January is Merelots, a day of remembrance of the dead under Article 37 of the same law, but a working day: the holiday ran to 7 January until a 2021 amendment. Article 39 lets the government declare extra non-working days, and no such decision for this season had been published as of 11 November 2026. The Opera's three evenings on 31 December and I Love Christmas on 6 January all fall on days off.