Celebrate the Holidays on WETA Classical This Week

Make WETA Classical a part of your Christmas celebrations. We have the perfect lineup of special programs to accompany your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, from CarolFest, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Chapel, The Nutcracker, Handel's Messiah and more!

Image

Image

We celebrate the Holiday season on Front Row Washington with a performance of “The Passion of Scrooge or a Christmas Carol” by American composer John Deak for baritone featuring the 21st Cenutry Consort on December 19 at 9PM ET. William Sharp sings the role of Scrooge and Marley with a cast of characters portrayed by various instruments in the orchestra.  

Join us on Opera Matinee for the Metropolitan Opera's holiday tradition of the family friendly production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Allegory and symbolism drive a quest for wisdom, in a plot involving Tamino, sent by the evil Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from Sarastro and his community. This production is a special English-language, abridged version starring Joélle Harvey, Aleksandra Olczyk and Ben Bliss, led by Duncan Ward. Saturday at 1PM ET.

Image

What better way to wrap up Christmas Day than Bach's telling of the Christmas Story. Join us for Bach's Christmas Oratorio on Choral Showcase. If this work is relatively unfamiliar, check out Bill Bukowski's quick guide to the masterpiece on our blog, Classical Score. It will soon become your new holiday must-hear masterpiece. Join us at 9PM ET on Christmas.

Image

The countdown to Christmas day is on! In celebration, Classical Sunrise greets each morning this week with the cheeriest of holiday music. Here is the festive lineup!

• Monday 7:22AM Hallelujah chorus from Messiah
• Tuesday 7:22AM The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Wednesday 7:23AM Tchaikovsky- Russian dance from The Nutcracker
• Thursday 7:23AM Bach -Christmas Oratorio, Part 3, Opening chorus
• Friday 7:24AM Jingle Bells

Image