Lift your spirits to angelic heights this Christmas season with the most haunting and inspiring live concerts throughout December, in the most unique churches in Rome which may have missed your radar. From world class organ and piano performances of Bach, Chopin and Mozart, Soprano solos of classic Puccini and Verdi to a heart melting children’s choir, Romeing has you covered.
Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
Piazza Navona
santagneseinagone.org
romaoperaomnia.com
- Wednesday, 5th December at 7.40pm
- Thursday, 6th December at 7.40pm
- Friday, 21st December at 7pm
- Sunday, 23rd December at 4pm
Free Entry
- Thursday 27st December at 6.30pm (Christmas Baroque Concert)
Christmas Baroque concert: Music of the Sistine Chapel by Palestrina, Arcadelt, Morales, Victoria, Pitoni, Agazzari, Gregorian chant performed live by Schola Romana Ensemble.
Entry fee €20
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Via del Corso, 305
romaoperaomnia.com
- Saturday 1st December at 3pm
- Saturday 8th December at 3pm
- Saturday 15th December at 3pm
- Saturday 22nd December at 3pm
- Saturday 29th December at 3pm
Music by:Music by: Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Falconieri, Sanz, Caccini, Aranes, Praetorius, Landi, Gastoldi and others Baroque composers performed live by “Schola Romana Ensemble, our resident historically informed group.
Entry fee €35 – 39 (Included: entrance fee to the museum + guided tour in English of the Doria Pamphilj Gallery with an art historian)
Capuchins Crypt
Via Veneto, 27
romaoperaomnia.com
- Wednesday 5th December at 5.30pm
- Wednesday 12th December at 5.30pm
- Wednesday 29th December at 5.30pm
Music of the Sistine Chapel by Palestrina, Arcadelt, Morales, Victoria, Pitoni, Agazzari, Gregorian chant performed live by “Schola Romana Ensemble”.
Entry fee €3o (Included: guided tour of Capuchins Crypt and church)
Chiesa Sant’Antonio in Campo Marzio
Via dei Portoghesi, 2
www.ipsar.org
- Sunday 13th January at 6.30pm
CONCERTO DI ORGANO TE DEUM. Organista: Arno Hartmann
- Sunday 20th January at 6.30pm
CONCERTO DI ORGANO ITINERARIO TEDESCO: DA BACH A REUBKE. Organista: Andrzej Chorosinski
Basilica di S. Ignazio
Piazza Sant’Ignazio
amicimusicasacra.com
- Wednesday 2nd January, 2019 at 9pm
The Combined Choirs of St. Joseph and Our Lady of Hope – USA
Free Entry
Basilica di San Paolo Fuori Le Mura
Piazzale San Paolo, 1
culture@gov.mt
- Sunday 30th December at 3pm
Lux in Tenebris Lucet: Concerto di Natale
Basilica di San Paolo Entro Le Mura
Via Napoli, 58
- Saturday 1st December at 8.30pm
I Virtuosi dell’opera di Roma: La Traviata a San Paolo Entro le Mura
Tickets: €30 – 45
- Monday 3rd December at 8.30pm
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons meets Bach masterpieces.
Tickets: €22 – 55
- Tuesday 4th December at 8.30pm
La Traviata in Rome: The Original Opera with Ballet
Tickets: €23 – 44
- Wednesday 20th December at 8.30pm
The Three Tenors in Rome Christmas Concert: Napul’è Opera Arias and Ballet
Tickets: €22 – 55
- Wednesday 5th December at 8.30pm
The Three Tenors: Opera Arias, Naples & Songs
Tickets: €22 – 55
- Sunday 9th December at 6.30pm
Symphonic Season 2018
Tickets: €33 – 45
- Sunday 23rd December at 6.30pm
Great Symphonic Christmas Concert
Tickets: €28 – 44
- Wednesday 26th December at 8.30pm
The Three Tenors in Rome Christmas Concert: Napul’è Opera Arias and Ballet
Tickets: €22 – 55
- Thursday 27th December at 8.30pm
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto Christmas Concert
Tickets: €22 – 55
- Saturday 29th December at 8.30pm
Great Symphonic Christmas Concert
Tickets: €33 – 55
- Monday 31st December at 8pm
New Year’s Concert: I Virtuosi dell’Opera di Roma
Tickets: €39 – 50
Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi
Piazza San Luigi dei Francesi
romafestivalbarocco.it
- Friday 21st December at 9pm
La Lira di Orfeo
Raffaele Pè, controtenore
Concerti Sacri a Roma
Concerti Sacri di Alessandro Scarlatti
- Saturday 15th December at 6.30pm
MONTECOMPATRI (RM), PALAZZO ANNIBALDESCHI
Davide Pozzi, clavicembalo
“L. Marchand e J. S. Bach. Il duello, la notte, la fuga”
Chiesa di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Piazza dell’Oro, 1
romafestivalbarocco.it
- Thursday 13th December at 9pm
TON KOOPMAN, organo
L’organo italiano e la tradizione europea
Musiche di G. Frescobaldi, J. J. Froberger, G. Cabanilles, P. Bruna, J. S. Bach, D. Scarlatti
Chiesa di Santa Maria dell’Anima
Via Santa Maria dell’Anima
romafestivalbarocco.it
- Sunday 16th December at 8.45pm
Dirige il maestro Giuseppe Pecce
Coro da camera RADIX HARMONICA
Basilica di S.Alessio all’Aventino
Piazza S.Alessio
- Saturday 22nd December at 8pm
- Friday 28th December at 8pm
Basilica di San Lorenzo in Damaso alla Cancelleria
Piazza della Cancelleria, 1
sanlorenzoindamaso.it
- Sunday 16th December at 7.30pm
Concerto di Natale dell’Aramus
Scuola Cantorum S. Lorenzo in Damaso
Coro Polifonico dell’Aramus
Orchestra Aramus
Direttore: Osvaldo Guidotti
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese
Via IV Novembre, 107
classictic.com
- Sunday 2nd December at 8.30pm
The Most Beautiful Opera Arias in Rome: Waldensian Church in Rome
Tickets: €23 – 39
- Thursday 20th December at 8.30pm
Christmas Concert: The Most Beautiful Opera Arias
Tickets: €29 – 39
- Sunday 30th December at 7.30pm
The Three Tenors in Rome Christmas Concert: Napul’è Opera Arias and Ballet
Tickets: €22-55
- Monday 31st December at 8.30pm
New Year’s Concert in Rome
Tickets: €28 – 55
Ponte Sant’Angelo Methodist Church
Piazza di Ponte Sant’Angelo, 68
classictic.com
- Monday 3rd December at 7.30pm
Opera at Ponte Sant’Angelo
Tickets: €24 – 29
- Tuesday 25th December at 7pm
Christmas Concert in Rome
Tickets: €29 – 34
All Saints Church
Via del Babuino, 153
classictic.com
- Saturday 1st December at 8.30pm
The Four Seasons: Concerto Barocco Italiano Guarnieri
Tickets: €24 – 39
- Tuesday 4th December at 8.30pm
Accademia d’Opera Italiana: La Traviata
Tickets: €24 – 39
- Friday 28th December at 8.3opm
The Three Tenors in Concert: Accademia d’Opera Italiana
Tickets: €24 – 39
- Sunday 30th December at 8.30pm
Accademia d’Opera Italiana: La Traviata
Tickets: €24 – 39
- Monday 31st December at 7pm
Accademia d’Opera Italiana: New Year’s Concert
Tickets: €30- 45
Oratorio del Caravita
Via del Caravita, 7
classictic.com
- Saturday 1st December at 8.30pm
The Three Tenors: Opera Arias, Naples & Songs in Oratorio Caravita
Tickets: €23 – 55
- Monday 31st December at 9pm
New Year’s Eve Concert: The Three Tenors
Tickets: €33 – 44
What a wonderful post! Could it be updated for 2016?
sure! stay tuned!
Christmas Swing music concert featuring American/British Christmas classics from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble and more, in swing style! 15th December 2016, teatro Keiros (Piazza Bologna), €12/9.
http://www.teatrokeiros.it/15-dicembre.html
“Benvenuto Natale! Venite a celebrare una delle feste più belle dell’anno insieme alla cantante scozzese Emma Gordon, accompagnata dai favolosi musicisti del ‘Jingle Bell Quartet’. In uno spettacolo immerso nell’atmosfera natalizia che riuscirà a scaldare le ore di una fredda sera invernale, vi proponiamo tutte le classiche canzoni più amate di Natale di Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Bublé ed altri, rivisitate in chiave swing.”
Thank you ! Very interesting !
The famous German poet Goethe visited Rome 1787 at Christmas and wrote: “To speak again of church matters, I must tell you that on the night of Christmas Day we wandered about in troops, and visited all the churches where solemn services were being performed. One especially was visited, because of its organ and music: the latter was so arranged, that in its tones nothing belonging to pastoral music was wanting,—neither the singing of the shepherds, nor the twittering of birds, nor the bleating of sheep. On Christmas Day I saw the Pope and the whole consistory in St, Peter’s, where he celebrated high mass, partly before and partly from his throne. It is of its kind an unequalled sight, splendid and dignified enough…”