This year, the Basler Mädchenkantorei (girls’ choir) will once again sing beautiful Christmas carols at the traditional Advent concert of the Sinfonieorchester Basel. The charismatic, youthful, and celebrated Swiss baritone Äneas Humm will be performing as a special guest. Conducted by 33-year-old Austrian conductor Katharina Müllner, the concert will get everyone in the mood for the holiday season.
Humm captivates audiences on the opera stage and in the concert hall alike. He appeared as Papageno in Mozart's “Zauberflöte” (Magic Flute) at the Theater St. Gallen and in Gabriel Fauré's “Requiem” at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Samples of his operatic and concert singing talents can now be enjoyed at this advent concert. Humm will present Papageno's playful aria “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” from the “Zauberflöte” and fills the hall with the most tender sounds in Richard Wagner's “Abendstern” from “Tannhäuser.” As a special treat, the program includes two orchestral songs by Hans Pfitzner: “Wanderers Nachtlied” and the gently sparkling “Es fällt ein Stern herunter.” Together with the Mädchenkantorei, Humm will also sing a new arrangement of Florian Walser's popular Christmas medley. The concert will be rounded off with works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Strauss, Engelbert Humperdinck, John Stainer, Gustav Holst, Felix Mendelssohn, and the “Interlude” from Wilhelm Stenhammar's romantic cantata “Sången”—a declaration of love for music by the Swedish composer.
Tickets are CHF 30-90 for adults and CHF 15-45 for students and youths.

Website
sinfonieorchesterbasel.ch/en/concerts/adventskonzert/11839#infoItem

Where
Stadtcasino Basel
Konzertgasse 1
4051 Basel

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