Vienna Boys Choir Brings 'Angel Voices' to Arirang
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
The Vienna Boys Choir, one of the world’s oldest and most celebrated boys' choirs, will perform at Gangneung Art Center on January 16 as part of the 2026 New Year Concert tour. With over 500 years of history dating back to 1498, the choir—once associated with composers like Schubert and Haydn—features students selected through its own school and auditions who live in a dormitory and tour internationally. The program includes sacred works (e.g., Jacobus Gallus’s 'God Be Strong'), Camille Saint-Saëns’s 'Ave Maria', César Franck’s 'Panis Angelicus' (a hymn meaning 'bread of angels'), Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss II, and a special performance of 'Arirang' (a traditional Korean folk song). They will also sing a Korean choral adaptation of Kim Sowol’s poem 'Sanyuhwa' and the 'Ode to Joy' from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, closing with the lively bossa nova 'Mas, que nada.' The concert aims to blend sacred, classical, folk, and popular styles to offer emotional cross-cultural resonance.
