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Choralissimo celebrates great moments from some of the most exciting choral works ever written. Nelson Civic Choir under Music and Artistic Director Jason Balla present this exhilarating four-day festival programme at the Nelson Centre of Musical Arts.

The Thursday lunchtime recital includes solos, duets and vocal ensembles from a selection of great choral works.

The Friday evening Live Lounge event presents a lively variety of music from some well-loved favourites presented in a lighter musical style.

The highlight of the weekend will feature 2 gala concerts of great choral moments including excerpts from Orff’s Carmina Burana, Requiem Masses by Mozart and Fauré, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Haydn’s Creation.

Come and hear many of the choral world’s favourite and captivating works presented over four days in a variety of programmes by the Nelson Civic Choir, orchestra and soloists at the NCMA.

Join Nelson Civic Choir and soloists for an entertaining musical romp through the fanciful “topsy-turvy” worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan in an afternoon of costumed frivolity with excerpts from The Gondoliers, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe and many more.

Presenting at the Theatre Royal Nelson, for the first time in many years, members of the Nelson Civic Choir pull out all the Victorian stops. Gilbert and Sullivan created a world where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion: fairies rub elbows with British Lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray.

Choral Comedy presents an afternoon of memorable melodies with perfectly outrageous storylines performed in a completely deadpan way.

Handel’s MESSIAH has been in the concert repertoire since it was written almost 300 years ago. Nelson Symphony Orchestra and Nelson Civic Choir are joined by narrator and soloists to present an exciting new semi-staged version of this much-loved masterpiece.

Whether you know and love Handel’s MESSIAH or will be hearing it for the first time, this refreshing new arrangement, compiled by Music Director Jason Balla, will be a unique way for you to enjoy one of the world’s greatest choral masterpieces ever written!

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