Name: The Vienna Boys Choir
Start: 2025-10-17T07:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-17T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Grand Theatre

The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the most famous choirs in the world and one of its oldest boys have been singing at Vienna’s Imperial Chapel at least since 1296. Two hundred years later on July 7 1498 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. established a Court Chapel in Vienna. He gave specific instructions that there were to be boys among the singers thus laying the foundation for the Vienna Boys Choir. Like their modern successors the Early modern boys spent much time on the road following their imperial employer to sing at the Holy Roman Empire’s parliamentary meetings imperial coronations weddings state processions and feasts.
Sponsored by Kay and Bill Kirkland
Vienna Boys Choir is supported in part by the City of Frankfort Subsidy Grant