A Gala Christmas in Vienna Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman stick to traditional fare like "Deck the Halls" and European carols, all is bright", and cautioned "but when Domingo bellows over Trevor Horn's bombastic "The Closing of the Year," and Brightman attempts to rock on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," they're just schlockin' around the Christmas tree." A Gala Christmas in Vienna A Gala Christmas in Vienna or Christmas in Vienna V is a DVD released in 1998. Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman, Helmut Lotti and Riccardo Cocciante perform traditional, European and American Christmas songs in Vienna, Austria. The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony, conducted
A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. "A Christmas Carol" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" during a period when the British were