December 14 & 15, 2025
A delightful collection of your favorite Christmas carols and light classics, including music by Johann Strauss, Bizet, Puccini, Mancini, Sousa and others. Soprano Kristin Vogel returns to celebrate the season with inspiring holiday songs and famous operatic arias. Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice and onstage intensity, Soprano Kristin Vogel has been lauded for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality, such as Puccini’s Tosca, Mimi in La Bohème and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Performing regularly in Europe and the United States, she divides her time between Vienna and the Pacific Northwest.
Program
Faith – Brazilian Sleigh Bells
Around the World at Christmas Time, arr. Chase
J. Strauss – Artist’s Quadrille (Kunstler-Quadrille), op. 201
Pietro Yon – Gesù bambino
Bach/Gounod – Ave Maria
Sammy Wells/Jule Styne – Let it Snow
Placide Cappeau/Adolphe Adams – O Holy Night
Smetana – Polka from the Opera The Two Widows
Bizet – “Seguidilla” from Carmen
Puccini – “Un bel di vedremo” from Madama Butterfly
Strauss – Csardas from Die Fledermaus
Beethoven – Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens
A Tribute to Henry Mancini, arr. Calvin Custer
Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever