When the nights are at their longest, frosty wind and snow storms sweep the land, it is the time of the Koliada – of the pagan winter solstice feast and the Christian-orthodox Christmas celebration in equal measure. In these magical “twelve days of Christmas” the barrier between the human world and the realm of dark beings becomes especially thin. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “true” Christmas song, Die Nacht vor Weihnachten, based on the eponymous story by Nikolai Gogol, also plays out in this very same period.

Vsevolod Grivnov

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Nov 29 - Dec 22, 2025

Die Nacht vor Weihnachten · Bayerische Staatsoper

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Deacon Ossip Nikiforowitsch in The Night Before Christmas by Rimsky-Korsakov

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