Copenhagen Phil is of course joining forces with the Copenhagen Boys' Choir again this year and offers one of the Christmas month's best offers for a musical Christmas tradition: Bach's immortal Christmas Oratorio . So leave the hustle and bustle of Christmas and gift shopping out for a few hours and follow along to Bach's wonderful Christmas world full of jubilant choirs, serious hymns and poignant arias.

The Christmas oratorio

Copenhagen Cathedral

Maribo Cathedral

St. Peter's Church

Based on a play by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Salome is one of the most intense and powerful operas ever created. Sensational in its time, Salome was received with both wonder and shock, thanks to its theme combining religion and eroticism and its groundbreaking musical language.

Salome

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Ariadne on Naxos was the third opera written by Richard Strauss together with librettist Hugon von Hoffmansthal. Their collaboration had started with the expressionist Elektra, followed two years later by a drastically different, Mozartian Der Rosenkavalier.  Their next project drew heavily on literary inspirations. The one-act opera was meant to be shown at the end of Molièr’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, which Hoffmansthal had just translated into German. The version of Ariadne that prevailed to our times has a prologue setting the metatheatrical stage for the opera. 

Conny Thimander

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 27 Apr, 2025

Ariadne On Naxos · Polish National Opera

Past events

11 - 14 Dec, 2024

The Christmas oratorio · Copenhagen Phil

11 - 31 Oct, 2024

Salome · Finnish National Opera and Ballet

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