F. J. Haydn, The Creation - November 24, 2024

Learn more about the City Choir of Washington’s performance of Haydn’s Creation

Meet the Artists

“A Game of Telephone” - Artistic Director Erin Freeman on the Challenges of Translating The Creation

Erin writes: "Have you ever played a game of telephone? You know the one: someone thinks of a phrase and whispers it to the next person in line who whispers it to the next, and so on. By the time you get to the end, you have a garbled, nonsensical sentence. 

"Well, the story of the English libretto of Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation is kind of like that."

Click HERE to read Erin’s notes about The Creation's journey from English to German and back again and her thoughts on Philip Moody's elegant new English translation that the City Choir of Washington is performing.

Meet the “Garden of Eden Players”

Thank you to our brave choristers who volunteered to do double duty and learn the choreography required to form tableaux of angels on stage in Parts I & II, and act as members of Adam and Eve’s “community” in Part III: