Name: Lights in the Darkness
Start: 2025-12-23T18:30:00
Location: Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Daniel J. Mayr

Gunde Hamraths

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Children's and Youth Choir Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

Even though our Christmas concert in the Kreuzkirche has become a beloved tradition, it is far from routine: the Christmas customs of the countries we visit musically, the moods and languages ​​of different styles and ensembles are too diverse. This year we're traveling back to Germany's past: Christmas with "Papa Bach" in a small Silesian village or with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin. In the 1820s, there was already a Christmas market there with over 100 stalls, the sensation perhaps being the evening illuminations, which contrasted with the darkness in which much of the city was shrouded at night.