Celebrate the festive season with Bach’s revelatory choral masterpiece, led by Richard Tognetti and Pinchgut Opera's Artistic Director, Erin Helyard.

A performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio is a transformative experience. Sublime choral and orchestral magic culminate in a feast for the senses. Bach wrote his Christmas cantatas to be performed on six different days. Here, you will immerse yourself in his masterpiece over one night.

In partnership with Pinchgut Opera, led by Artistic Director Erin Helyard, the ACO presents a blockbuster performance of Bach’s glorious oratorio, featuring exultant choral passages, radiant soloists and magnificent orchestral forces. Bach canvases the joy and wonder of the nativity story as Mary contemplates motherhood, the angels appear in triumphant glory before the shepherds and wise men bow before a tiny babe.

Tognetti's affinity for Bach is famous and the Australian Chamber Orchestra's last presentation of this work, nearly a decade ago, blew critics and audiences away.

Season 2026: Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Chamber Orchestra is one of the most acclaimed chamber orchestras in the world. Led by their pioneering Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, the Orchestra is defined by its exceptional virtuosity and an irrepressible sense of adventure and curiosity.