Lift your spirits to angelic heights this Christmas season with the most haunting and inspiring live concerts throughout December and January, in the most unique churches in Rome which may have missed your radar. From world class organ and piano performances of Bach, Chopin and Mozart, Soprano solos of classic Puccini and Verdi to a heart melting children’s choir, Romeing has you covered.
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16 Must-Visit Churches In Rome
Church of Saint Patrick
Via Boncompagni, 31
stpatricksamericanrome.org
- Christmas Eve – Friday, December 24
4:30 PM: Children’s/Family Mass
7:00 PM: Concert/Caroling
7:30 PM: “Midnight” Mass
- Christmas Day – Friday, December 25
9:00 AM and 10:30 AM
Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
Piazza Navona
- 14-21-28 December 2023 at 5.45pm
Love Concert: the most romantic music for cello and piano at piazza Navona
- 16-30 December 2023 at 5pm & 3 January 2024 at 5.45pm
Viva Vivaldi: The Four Seasons in Piazza Navona
- 20-27 December 2023 at 5.45pm
Great Opera: Piazza Navona in Rome
- 1 January 2024 at 4.30pm
New Year’s Concert: Great Opera
- 22-29 December 2023 at 5.45pm
Paganini Romantic Virtuoso at Piazza Navona
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Palazzo Pamphilj
Via S. Maria dell’Anima, 30
- 17 December 2023; 7-21-28 January 2024 at 5.30pm
Open Air Opera & Aperitif at Terrazza Borromini
Entry fee from €124
- 22-29 December 2023; 5-11-26 January 2024 at 5.30pm
Open Air Opera Concert: Best Arias and Love Duets
Entry fee from €124
- 22-29 December 2023; 5-19-26 January 2024 at 7.30pm
Opera Dinner: Dining During an Opera Interlude
Entry fee from €199
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Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Via del Corso, 305
- 16-23-30 December 2023 at 6.30pm; 6-13-20-27 January 2024 at 6.30pm
Vivaldi and Opera at The Princess secret apartment, Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Entry fee from €96
- 31 December 2022 at 3pm
New Year’s Baroque Concert At Palazzo Pamphilj
Entry fee from €74
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Capuchins Crypt – Church of S. Maria Immacolata
Via Veneto, 27
- 4-11-18-23 January 2024 at 4.45pm
Capuchin Crypt: Sacred Music in the Heart of Rome. Embark on a unique musical and art historical journey in a fascinating location: the Capuchin Crypt in Rome. Available also with dinner.
Tickets: from €74 and from €163 (with dinner)
- 21-28 December 2023 at 4.45pm
Baroque Christmas Concert in Capuchins Crypt. Don’t miss the chance to hear a wonderful performance of music by Palestrina, Agazzari, Pitoni, Morales and many others in the marvelous Capuchins Crypt.
Entry fee €71
Chiesa Sant’Antonio in Campo Marzio
Via dei Portoghesi, 2
www.ipsar.org
- 16 December 2023 at 6.30pm
Organ Concert
Basilica di S. Ignazio
Piazza Sant’Ignazio
fondazionepromusicaeartesacra.org
- 29 December 2023 at 9pm
Elevazione spirituale: Mädchenchor am Dom und St. Quintin e del Mainzer Domchor
Basilica di San Paolo Fuori Le Mura
Piazzale San Paolo, 1
2023 dates to be updated
Basilica di San Paolo Entro Le Mura
Via Napoli, 58
- 2 January 2024 at 8.30pm
I Virtuosi dell’opera di Roma: La Traviata
Tickets: from €38
- 19 December 2023 at 8.30pm; 9-16-23 January 2024 at 8.30pm
La Traviata in Rome: The Original Opera with Ballet. Experience Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork ‘La Traviata’ in the unique atmosphere of St. Paul’s Within the Walls in Rome. The singers will be accompanied by strings, wind instruments, and piano.
Tickets: from €65
- 16 – 26 – 28 December 2023 at 6.30pm; 6 – 13 – 20 january 2024 at 6.30pm
The Three Tenors in Rome with dinner. Three tenors will be joined by dancers in costume accompanied by the Orchestra of the great Neapolitan mandolins and grand piano, for a performance featuring opera arias and famous traditional Neapolitan songs.
Tickets: from €94
- 18 December 2023 at 8.30pm; 8-15-22-29 January 2024 at 8.30pm
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Meets Bach’s Masterpieces (with or without dinner). The “Opera in Roma” Baroque Orchestra and accomplished soloists perform in Church of Saint Paul Within the Walls in Rome. The program features Antonio Vivaldi’s well‐loved concerto for solo violin, ‘The Four Seasons’, and Bach cantatas for solo voice.
Tickets: from €55
- 23 December 2022 at 8.30pm
Grand Christmas Concert
Tickets: from €33
- 31 December 2022 at 8pm
I Virtuosi dell’opera di Roma: New Year’s Concert
Tickets: from €54
Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi
Piazza San Luigi dei Francesi
no concerts scheduled
Chiesa di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Piazza dell’Oro, 1
no concerts scheduled
Chiesa di Santa Maria dell’Anima
Via Santa Maria dell’Anima
no concerts scheduled
Basilica di S.Alessio all’Aventino
Piazza S.Alessio
no concerts scheduled
Basilica di San Lorenzo in Damaso alla Cancelleria
Piazza della Cancelleria, 1
sanlorenzoindamaso.it
- Christmas Eve – 24 December 2023
Mass: 12am
- Christmas Day – 25 December 2023
Mass: 11am & 6.30pm
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese
Via IV Novembre, 107
classictic.com
- every day at at 7.30pm
Opera da Camera di Roma: The Most Beautiful Opera Arias. Celebrate the opera arias and the most famous melodies of classical music composed by the greatest Italian composers: Verdi, Albinoni, Puccini, Bellini, Vivaldi, Leoncavallo and Mascagni.
Tickets from €45 (dinner option available)
Ponte Sant’Angelo Methodist Church
Piazza di Ponte Sant’Angelo, 68
- 31 December 2023 at 7.30pm
New Year’s Eve Opera Gala in Rome
Tickets from €37
- 1 January 2024 at 7.30pm
New Year’s Eve Opera Gala in Rome
Tickets from €37
All Saints Church
Via del Babuino, 153
- 28 December 2023; 6-27 January 2024 at 8.30pm
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at Chiesa Anglicana All Saints in Rome
- 29 December 2023; 5-26 January 2024 at 8.30pm
The Three Tenors in Concert at Chiesa Anglicana All Saints
- 30 December 2023; 2 January 2024 at 8.30pm
La Traviata at Chiesa Anglicana All Saints in Rome
Oratorio del Caravita
Via del Caravita, 7
Church of Santa Maria Maddalena
Piazza della Maddalena, 53
no concerts scheduled
What a wonderful post! Could it be updated for 2016?
sure! stay tuned!
Christmas Swing music concert featuring American/British Christmas classics from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble and more, in swing style! 15th December 2016, teatro Keiros (Piazza Bologna), €12/9.
http://www.teatrokeiros.it/15-dicembre.html
“Benvenuto Natale! Venite a celebrare una delle feste più belle dell’anno insieme alla cantante scozzese Emma Gordon, accompagnata dai favolosi musicisti del ‘Jingle Bell Quartet’. In uno spettacolo immerso nell’atmosfera natalizia che riuscirà a scaldare le ore di una fredda sera invernale, vi proponiamo tutte le classiche canzoni più amate di Natale di Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Bublé ed altri, rivisitate in chiave swing.”
Thank you ! Very interesting !
The famous German poet Goethe visited Rome 1787 at Christmas and wrote: “To speak again of church matters, I must tell you that on the night of Christmas Day we wandered about in troops, and visited all the churches where solemn services were being performed. One especially was visited, because of its organ and music: the latter was so arranged, that in its tones nothing belonging to pastoral music was wanting,—neither the singing of the shepherds, nor the twittering of birds, nor the bleating of sheep. On Christmas Day I saw the Pope and the whole consistory in St, Peter’s, where he celebrated high mass, partly before and partly from his throne. It is of its kind an unequalled sight, splendid and dignified enough…”