A movie was made of this in 2005, in turn inspiring the 2011 opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campcell which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now Houston Grand Opera will ...

Crowds of all ages turned up in droves on the Thursday before Christmas, with more than 450 people gathering at the Amphitheatre behind the Chapel “Nossa Senhora de Encarnação” for joyful community ...

Crowds of all ages turned up in droves for Carols on the Cliffs on the Thursday before Christmas. Carvoeiro saw more than 450 ...

In a show of community and a grand yuletide celebration, Park Ridge residents and more gathered at a local park near City Hall on Christmas Eve for a crowd sing-along of tunes of the season. In his ...

Before you go right ahead and call us “Scrooge” or the “Grinch,” just hear us out for a second. Is Christmas music good? Of course, it sets the tone for the holiday and puts you in that festive ...

If you spend any part of Christmas in Italy, you are sure to hear one of the country’s most beloved carols, “Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle” (“From Starry Skies Descending”). The Christmas song, written and ...

The embassies of the United Kingdom, Germany and France have performed the Ukrainian Christmas carol Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) as part of a joint creative holiday greeting for Ukrainians. Source: ...

When Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung announced that Christmas carols sung in public would become a tradition in the Indonesian capital, the statement carried significance beyond the season. In the ...

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her daughter Charlotte played a festive piano duet that aired Wednesday as part of an annual Christmas service celebrating “love in all its forms,” according to ...

“Kalanta,” Nikiforos Lytras, 1872. Greek Christmas and New Year’s carols are incredibly diverse and bring some tradition to the holiday season. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Public domain Greece is ...

Receiving a chalk blessing at the doorway or decorating wooden boats instead of Christmas trees may seem unfamiliar to many outside the region. Yet across Eastern and Central Europe, Christmas is ...