Adventskalender im Foyer: Das 19. Fensterchen
Today in the foyer: ‘Christmas and Winter Songs’
performed by the junior section of the children's chorus, conducted by Rosemarie Arzt
and Jens Holzkamp (piano)
5.00 p.m. / Parkettfoyer
Duration: approx. 25 minutes / free admission
In the junior section of the children's chorus, children from the second grade onwards learn how to use their voices and are carefully prepared for opera literature for children's choruses. Before taking to the main stage with works such as CARMEN, LA BOHÈME or HÄNSEL UND GRETEL and THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, the young artists experience what it is like to be in the spotlight and sing in front of an audience in smaller performances. And traditionally, the performance as part of the Advent calendar is one of these first opportunities to prove themselves. Today, you can listen to a South African traditional by the Zulu people, ‘Hambani kahle’, followed by winter songs such as ‘Juchhe der erste Schnee’, ‘Hei, hei, hei so eine Schneeballschlacht’ or ‘Der Schneemann’. And after these songs have got us in the mood for the cold, but above all white season, it will be really Christmassy with ‘Bald nun ist Weihnachtszeit’, ‘Was poltert durch das Haus’, ‘Du bist der Weihnachtsmann’, ‘1000 tolle Plätzchen’, ‘Sind die Lichter angezündet’ and ‘Am Weihnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen’. And then, of course, there is a greeting from wintry Scandinavia with ‘Tomtarnass Julnatt’. So look forward to our youngest artists under the direction of Rosemarie Arzt. They will be accompanied on the grand piano by our solo repetiteur Jens Holzkamp.
