THE 2017 CONCERT – FEATURING ROLANDO VILLAZÓN

Experience Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Rolando Villazón, a one-hour holiday spectacular featuring the world-renowned operatic tenor Villazón as guest artist and narrator. The one-hour holiday spectacular was recorded over three nights in front of a combined live audience of over 63,000 people in Salt Lake City’s Conference Center, and is a modern phenomenon that builds on the Choir’s 170 years of history in musical excellence.

"For me, the greatest part of the Christmas concerts is the team effort with over 600 volunteer performers as well as many more behind the scenes who come together to make something unique and special. This year, with the international appeal of Rolando—who speaks fluent Spanish, French, German, and English—we were able to include Christmas music from around the world which appeals to our world-wide audiences.

The masterful retelling of “The Little Match Girl” is a wonderful moment; as is the “We Three Kings” organ piece featuring all three of our Tabernacle organists playing at the same time which we had never done before. I could go on about each element of the program but after the final notes are sung and played, it’s a wonderful hour and a half of Christmas music—our gift at this Christmas season."

- Mack Wilberg

With other beloved songs, choruses, and orchestral works, and the Choir’s traditional finale, “Angels from the Realms of Glory,” this inspiring concert reminds us that Christmas is a time to both celebrate and ponder, to rejoice and be still, as we consider the ultimate gift of hope and redemption that the Christmas season represents.