SCO 2025/26: L'Enfance du Christ

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season).

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L'Enfance du Christ

BERLIOZ L’Enfance du Christ

Maxim Emelyanychev conductor

Paula Murrihy Mary

Andrew Staples Narrator, Centurion

Roderick Williams Joseph, Polydorus

Callum Thorpe Herod, Ishmaelite Father

SCO Chorus

Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

Welcome the coming festive season with one of the tenderest, most captivating Christmas pieces ever created.

L’Enfance du Christ is a lavish operatic oratorio that tells of Herod’s Massacre of the innocents, and the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt, blending surging drama and ethereal wonder, mighty choral set pieces with sublime solos of exquisite beauty. Berlioz conjures music of deep passion and belief, but it’s also a moving story of new life and family love that brings you up close to Mary, Joseph and Jesus as they flee their home and run for their lives.

Maxim Emelyanychev directs Berlioz’s visionary masterpiece with an exceptional cast of international vocal soloists, and the richness of the SCO Chorus.