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December 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program comes to Chicago! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights […]

December 12, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The Christmas story in readings and medieval and Renaissance  music with period instruments and voices with carols for all to sing. Bob Sweeten tells the Christmas story. Musicians appear in period attire.

December 13, 2025 – December 14, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Celebrate the season with the glorious sounds of Messiah! Handel’s beloved oratorio comes to life once more, performed on exquisite period instruments just as it was meant to be heard. From the triumphant Hallelujah to the soaring arias and stirring choruses, this is Messiah in its full, breathtaking splendor. Under the dynamic guest direction of Jos van Veldhoven, […]

December 13, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Celebrate the season with festive arias, cantatas, and instrumental works by J. S. Bach, his students, and family members! J.C.F. Bach’s charming mini-oratorio Die Kindheit Jesu is showcased along with other creative fruitings by Bach’s industrious protégés. With Michele Kennedy, soprano, Sophie Michaux, mezzo, Jason McStoots, tenor, & Daniel Fridley, bass.

December 13, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Johann Sebastian Bach Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 Now a cherished Washington, DC tradition, our annual performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is as joyous as the ringing-in of the holiday spirit itself, no matter how you celebrate! The Washington Post was inspired to say that this “joyous” telling of the Christmas story shows that the Consort “could go head-to-head […]