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Opera Southwest Presents: The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus 
with the Opera Southwest Orchestra
Berlioz – L’Enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)
At the National Hispanic Cultural Center Journal Theater
In concert – Sung in French – Sunday, November 15, 2026
2:00 PM
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 real occasion. Featuring John Tiranno, Javier Ortiz, Cecilia Violetta López, and Ashraf Sewailam, conducted by Zoe Zeniodi.
