Christmas Spectacular

David Charles Abell, Conductor

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts

300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Dec 4-22, 2015
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Fri, Dec 4, 2015
8pm
Individual tickets for this event are not for sale.
A Salute Series Event
8pm
Sat, Dec 5, 2015
3pm
Doors open at 2:30pm
3pm
Sun, Dec 6, 2015
3pm
Doors open at 2:30pm
3pm
Wed, Dec 9, 2015
8pm
Doors Open at 7:30PM
8pm
Sat, Dec 12, 2015
3pm
Doors Open at 2:30pm
3pm
Wed, Dec 16, 2015
8pm
Doors Open at 7:30PM
8pm
Fri, Dec 18, 2015
3pm
Doors open at 2:30pm
3pm
Sat, Dec 19, 2015
3pm
Doors open at 2:30pm
3pm
Sun, Dec 20, 2015
7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm
7pm
Tue, Dec 22, 2015
8pm
Doors Open at 7:30pm
8pm
Featuring

Lisa Vromanvocalist

Peter Richard Conteorganist

The Philly POPS Festival Chorus

Philadelphia Boys Choir

African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir


Please note: this is a special event. This is not a subscription-series concert. Add Christmas Spectacular to your subscription to get the best seats and save!


Conductor’s Circle seating is not available for this event. 

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Experience the true magic of the season with Philadelphia’s most treasured holiday musical tradition. Join internationally celebrated conductor David Charles Abell, back by popular demand for the third year, as he leads you through an all-new program of Christmas classics. This spectacular lineup of exciting musical arrangements features guest vocalist Lisa Vroman, renowned for her role as Christine in Broadway’s Phantom, over 300 musicians, remarkable choirs, and the ever-popular audience sing-along — as well as some surprises your whole family will enjoy!



Helpful Information

This program, including intermission, is approximately two and a half hours in length. Artists and program are subject to change without notice.

Discounted parking passes are available from select garages. For more information, please call 215.893.1999 or add a parking pass during checkout when purchasing your tickets.

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Enjoy the show!

Guest Artists

David Charles Abell, conductor

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David Charles Abell is widely considered Europe’s premier interpreter of Broadway scores and the music of Leonard Bernstein. David is most widely known for having conducted the two Les Misérables Anniversary Concerts (10th and 25th), both of which have become PBS fundraising perennials. He regularly appears on radio and television in the UK, most notably at the BBC Proms, London’s annual music festival at the Royal Albert Hall. These appearances have included the Richard Rodgers Centenary celebration (2002), a world premiere opera (2007), the Sondheim 80th birthday (2010) and the War Horse Prom (2014). With Abell’s passion for musical theater and his engaging personality, POPS audiences look forward to reconnecting with Abell during the holiday season.

Lisa Vroman, vocalist

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From Broadway to classics, on stage, and in concert, Lisa Vroman has established herself as one of America's most versatile voices. Lisa starred for several years on Broadway as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera, garnering Theatre Critic's awards for the role in a record-breaking run in San Francisco, with a return engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Pops, starred as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate with Glimmerglass Opera, as well as with the MUNY Theater of St. Louis. Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love, and she was the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Miserables. For PBS, she was featured with Colm Wilkinson and Michael Ball in Cameron Mackintosh's Hey, Mr. Producer! at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a royal gala attended by Queen Elizabeth II. With a repertoire that ranges from Stravinsky to Weill to Broadway, Lisa is a frequent guest soloist with theatre, opera companies, and orchestras, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, National, Florida, Santa Barbara, Hong Kong, Cleveland, Nashville, Pacific, Utah, Dallas, the Boston Pops, and The Philly POPS. Lisa has also sung for Queen Elizabeth, President Bill Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore.

Peter Richard Conte, Organist

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Peter Richard Conte is highly regarded as a skillful performer and arranger of organ transcriptions. He has been featured several times on National Public Radio and on ABC television’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight. His monthly radio show, The Wanamaker Organ Hour, airs on the first Sunday of each month and can be accessed online via WRTI.org. He performs extensively throughout the United States and Canada under the management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, and was a featured artist at the American Guild of Organists’ National Convention in 2002, and at the International Organ Festival in Aosta, Italy, in September 2004. In 2013, the Philadelphia Music Alliance honored him with a bronze plaque on the Avenue of the Arts’ Walk of Fame. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Philly POPS, and with Delaware and Allentown Symphonies.

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