Holiday Pops and Sing-Along
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 3:00 pm
Farmington High School, Farmington
BIZET: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Overture
BIZET: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole
CHRISTMAS CAROL: O Come All Ye Faithful
YON: Gesu, Bambino
TORME: The Christmas Song
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake Suite Mvt. VI
CHRISTMAS CAROL: Joy to the World
ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival
ADAM: O Holy Night
ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride
BERLIN: White Christmas
CHRISTMAS CAROL: Silent Night
TicketsThis hour-long family friendly program features your most beloved holiday and festive songs. Celebrate this special time of year with us and enjoy one of FVSO’s favorite sopranos, Lisabeth Miller, who leads us in timeless classics and audience sing along carols. From the Farandole to White Christmas, there is something for everyone to get them in the holiday spirit!
MEET LISABETH MILLER
Lyric soprano Lisabeth Miller is praised for her musically sensitive and dramatically compelling performances in both opera, recital, and concert repertoire. She has appeared as a soloist with the Hartford Symphony, Farmington Valley Symphony, Danbury Concert Chorus and Orchestra, Manchester Symphony and Chorale, Nutmeg Symphony, Waterbury Chorale, Con Brio Choral Society, Shoreline Chorale, and the University of Connecticut Festival Chorus. Operatic credits include roles with Opera Connecticut, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater, and the University of Connecticut Opera Theater, with recent performances as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, First Lady in The Magic Flute, and the title role in Handel’s Alcina.
Engagements in 2025 include Miller’s debut as a soloist with the New Britain Symphony, soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat with the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut, the Farmington Valley Symphony’s Holiday Pops, and the world premiere of Leonard Raybon’s opera Hannah and Her Daughters. She is also active as a recitalist and chamber musician, with recent collaborations including pianist Eric Trudel, guitarist Christopher Ladd, and Hartford-based Oboe Duo Agosto.
Dr. Miller serves on the voice faculty at the Hartt School, University of Hartford, where she teaches applied voice, lyric diction, vocal literature, and voice methods; in the summer she teaches on the voice and conducting faculties at New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine.