Sun, Nov 15
|National Hispanic Cultural Center
L'Enfance du Christ
Presented by Opera Southwest
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2026, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA
About the event
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY!
As the Christmas season approaches, Berlioz offers a beautiful alternative to the familiar holiday oratorios: a deeply moving retelling of the Nativity story, filled with some of the most exquisite music he ever wrote.
At the National Hispanic Cultural Center Journal Theater
In concert – Sung in French
In 1850, Berlioz slipped a gentle chorus into a Paris concert and credited it to “Pierre Ducré,” a 17th-century church composer he’d invented outright. Parisians who couldn’t stand his music were charmed: one declared that “Berlioz could never write a tune so beautiful”. He spent the next four years building a full oratorio around that little piece: L’Enfance du Christ, tracing the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt across three parts and ninety minutes. Most people know only its one famous excerpt, “The Shepherds’ Farewell”; the complete work is rarely performed, which makes hearing the whole of it a…