Join The King’s Singers and Washington National Cathedral Choirs as we celebrate the beauty, breadth and power of sacred music at the 2021 Sacred Choral Music Festival on February 26-28. 
The festival weekend includes opportunities for rehearsals, performances, workshops, lectures, discussions, fellowship, and our national worship service broadcast. 

Festival course offerings include:
THE CATHEDRAL CHORAL EXPERIENCE
- Junior & Senior Choristers 
- Adult Singers (Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, & Basses) 
STEWARDING & TRANSFORMING OUR TRADITION
- Liturgical Music for Directors & Organists 
- Liturgical Music for Clergy 

The Sacred Choral Music Festival celebrates our rich and broad musical heritage and serves to uplift new music. Led by Canon Michael McCarthy and the Cathedral music staff, the Festival invites adults and young musicians to participate in worship in the magnificent setting of the National Cathedral.

Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine of Il Trovatore. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna in the first pairing of the two Russian superstars at the Met since 2002, with Yonghoon Lee as Manrico, the title character, Štefan Kocán as Ferrando, and Dolora Zajick in her signature role of the demented gypsy Azucena.

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy. The sensational Alfredo Kraus sings her beloved Ernesto. Håkan Hagegård, in his Met debut role and season, is Dr. Malatesta, the man who helps the young couple trick the crusty old bachelor of the title (Gabriel Bacquier at his comical best) into a fake marriage. This being a Donizetti comedy, it all turns out perfectly well at the end—and getting there is pure operatic fun.