Our Christmas concert is a much loved and highly anticipated event on the calendar.  Join in the celebration of Christmas as Victoria Chorale performs the charming Messe de Minuit Pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas), by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, as well as a beautiful collection of carols and Christmas music - old favourites and new.

 

Conducted by our energetic Music Director, Mario Dobernig, Victoria Chorale will be joined by The Art of Sound Orchestra and outstanding soloists: 

      Phoebe Daisy Paine, Soprano

      Saskia Mascitti, Mezzo Soprano

      Timothy Reynolds, Tenor

      Bailey Montgomerie, Baritone

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a prolific composer of both secular and sacred works  during the second half of the 17th Century.  He spent his later years working as a composer for the Jesuit church.  Messe de Minuit Pour Noël was probably composed in the early 1690s when Charpentier was Music Director of the Eglise Saint-Louis.  This Mass is regarded as unique, both within the genre and in the composer’s work.  While the text is that of the Ordinary Mass, the music is based on popular 17th Century French Christmas Carols, most of which have a gentle, dance-like quality.  One of Charpentier’s best known works, Messe de Minuit Pour Noël is characterised by movements of tuneful simplicity and sweet jubilation.

Our celebration of Christmas will continue with some favourite Carols - and the chance for everyone to join in the music-making - as well as some newer works including Lauridsen’s beautiful Sure On This Shining Night, an arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah by Australian composer Dan Walker, and The Twelve Days Of Christmas.

 

In the true spirit of Christmas expect some surprises and delights!

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We would love to see you there!

 

Tickets:  Trybooking.com/CUEGG
Phone:  0438 071 001  
Adult $60 / Concession $55 ($65/ $60 after Nov 30)
Group of 10+:  $48 per ticket
30 YO and under:  $40
Full-time student:  $35
Child under 12 yo:  $20