Carley sings with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Nearly a century after premiering at the Colonial Theatre, Carousel has become one of the most beloved American musicals of all time. In this landmark 80th anniversary production, creative visionary and BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart stages a stunning and evocative tribute to this Rodgers & Hammerstein gem. Featuring unforgettable songs like “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” this timeless paean to the power of love and redemption is sure to sweep you off your feet.

Music Director David Angus conducts an exceptional cast featuring Brandie Sutton as Julie Jordan, Edward Nelson as Billy Bigelow, Jamie Barton as Nettie Fowler, and Anya Matanovič as Carrie Pipperidge

For tickets and more information, please visit BLO’s website.

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Nearly a century after premiering at the Colonial Theatre, Carousel has become one of the most beloved American musicals of all time. In this landmark 80th anniversary production, creative visionary and BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart stages a stunning and evocative tribute to this Rodgers & Hammerstein gem. Featuring unforgettable songs like “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” this timeless paean to the power of love and redemption is sure to sweep you off your feet.

Music Director David Angus conducts an exceptional cast featuring Brandie Sutton as Julie Jordan, Edward Nelson as Billy Bigelow, Jamie Barton as Nettie Fowler, and Anya Matanovič as Carrie Pipperidge

For tickets and more information, please visit BLO’s website.

Carley sings with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Nearly a century after premiering at the Colonial Theatre, Carousel has become one of the most beloved American musicals of all time. In this landmark 80th anniversary production, creative visionary and BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart stages a stunning and evocative tribute to this Rodgers & Hammerstein gem. Featuring unforgettable songs like “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” this timeless paean to the power of love and redemption is sure to sweep you off your feet.

Music Director David Angus conducts an exceptional cast featuring Brandie Sutton as Julie Jordan, Edward Nelson as Billy Bigelow, Jamie Barton as Nettie Fowler, and Anya Matanovič as Carrie Pipperidge

For tickets and more information, please visit BLO’s website.

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Nearly a century after premiering at the Colonial Theatre, Carousel has become one of the most beloved American musicals of all time. In this landmark 80th anniversary production, creative visionary and BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart stages a stunning and evocative tribute to this Rodgers & Hammerstein gem. Featuring unforgettable songs like “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” this timeless paean to the power of love and redemption is sure to sweep you off your feet.

Music Director David Angus conducts an exceptional cast featuring Brandie Sutton as Julie Jordan, Edward Nelson as Billy Bigelow, Jamie Barton as Nettie Fowler, and Anya Matanovič as Carrie Pipperidge

For tickets and more information, please visit BLO’s website.

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. David Angus conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley performs with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Presented in collaboration with Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) at Symphony Hall, Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”) is an incredibly tender work, embodying the twilight of the Romantic era. Korngold, a remarkable prodigy who later became one of Hollywood’s most important composers, began the opera when he was only 19 and completed it at age 23. It opened simultaneously in December 1920 in Cologne and Hamburg and became one of the biggest operatic successes of the era. The opera’s theme of struggling with the memory of a lost loved one undoubtedly resonated with audiences still traumatized by the recent catastrophe of World War I.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Marietta)
Elisa Sunshine, soprano (Juliette)
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano (Brigitte)
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor (Paul)
Joshua Sanders, tenor (Victorin)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Gaston)
Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor (Graf Albert)
Andrzej Filończyk, baritone (Frank)
Elliot Madore, baritone (Fritz)

with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus and Tanglewood Festival Chorus

For tickets and more information, please visit the Boston Lyric Opera website

Carley performs with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

Presented in collaboration with Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) at Symphony Hall, Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”) is an incredibly tender work, embodying the twilight of the Romantic era. Korngold, a remarkable prodigy who later became one of Hollywood’s most important composers, began the opera when he was only 19 and completed it at age 23. It opened simultaneously in December 1920 in Cologne and Hamburg and became one of the biggest operatic successes of the era. The opera’s theme of struggling with the memory of a lost loved one undoubtedly resonated with audiences still traumatized by the recent catastrophe of World War I.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Marietta)
Elisa Sunshine, soprano (Juliette)
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano (Brigitte)
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor (Paul)
Joshua Sanders, tenor (Victorin)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Gaston)
Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor (Graf Albert)
Andrzej Filończyk, baritone (Frank)
Elliot Madore, baritone (Fritz)

with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus and Tanglewood Festival Chorus

For tickets and more information, please visit the Boston Lyric Opera website

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the Sunday Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, spoken word artist
Brianna Robinson, soprano
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deep explores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, spoken word artist
Brianna Robinson, soprano
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deep explores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Carley sings as a member of the chorus with Emmanuel Music at their annual Blue Christmas Service. This service will not be livestreamed.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

15 Newbury Street

Celebrate the season with festive18th-century yuletide music from across the Western Hemisphere! This sojourn takes you to Ireland, England, France, Poland, Germany, the Czech region, New England, and Mexico, with stellar works by Bach and Handel along with delightful rediscoveries.

Carley DeFranco, soprano; Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor

Saturday, December 14, 4pm: Trinity Lutheran, Worcester and live-streamed 
Sunday, December 15, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston

For more information, please click here.

Celebrate the season with festive18th-century yuletide music from across the Western Hemisphere! This sojourn takes you to Ireland, England, France, Poland, Germany, the Czech region, New England, and Mexico, with stellar works by Bach and Handel along with delightful rediscoveries.

Carley DeFranco, soprano; Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor

Saturday, December 14, 4pm: Trinity Lutheran, Worcester and live-streamed 
Sunday, December 15, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston

For more information, please click here.

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the weekly Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the weekly Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley sings with the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.

BLO Music Director David Angus takes the helm of this production that features Michelle Johnson as Aida, Diego Torre as Radamès, Alice Chung as Amneris, Morris Robinson as Ramfis, and Brian Major as Amonasro. The Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus perform Verdi’s thrilling score and join with Boston’s choral community, including the Back Bay Chorale, for the monumental Act Two Triumphal March.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the weekly Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley is the soprano soloist with Symphony NH in their season opening concert. Roger Kalia conducts.

For more information and tickets, please visit the Symphony NH website

Works for String Quartet and Voice

Heidi Braun-Hill & Heather Braun-Bakken, violin | Mark Berger, viola | Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello

Carley DeFranco, soprano | Katherine Maysek, mezzo | Omar Najmi, tenor | Will Prapestis, baritone

Leslie Amper, piano

Program

Samuel Barber -Dover Beach
Elena Ruehr - Song of the Silkie, Second String Quartet‍
Florence Price - Sympathy
Clara Schumann - Drei Lieder‍
Kaija Saariaho - Prospero’s Vision
Omar Najmi - The Comet at Yell'ham
Gabriel Fauré - La Bonne Chanson

For more information, please see Emmanuel Music’s website

Works for String Quartet and Voice

Heidi Braun-Hill & Heather Braun-Bakken, violin | Mark Berger, viola | Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello

Carley DeFranco, soprano | Katherine Maysek, mezzo | Omar Najmi, tenor | Will Prapestis, baritone

Leslie Amper, piano

Program

Samuel Barber -Dover Beach
Elena Ruehr - Song of the Silkie, Second String Quartet‍
Florence Price - Sympathy
Clara Schumann - Drei Lieder‍
Kaija Saariaho - Prospero’s Vision
Omar Najmi - The Comet at Yell'ham
Gabriel Fauré - La Bonne Chanson

Carley sings with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the weekly Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music in the weekly Bach Cantata Series. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street

The service will be live-streamed via Emmanuel Church’s YouTube Channel, found here

Boston Lyric Opera Street Stage at The Rose Kennedy Greenway 
Thursday, September 26, 12:30–1:30 PM 
Rain Date: Friday, September 27, 12:30-1:30 PM 
Rowes Wharf Plaza on the Rose Kennedy Greenway   
Intersection of High Street and Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02110 

FREE – REGISTER

Boston’s beloved downtown park becomes an open-air opera house as BLO’s Street Stage returns to the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Enjoy a lunchtime concert of enchanting arias showcasing fan-favorite repertoire, virtuosic singing, and sneak previews from BLO’s 2024/25 Season. Bring a blanket or lawn chair to settle on the grass, or stroll by for a song while enjoying the sights of the city. 

Carley covers the role of Ismene.

Passion and politics collide in this star-studded production of Mozart’s rarely performed work. Against the backdrop of a raging war, the King of Pontus must put his family’s loyalty to the test. With a bristling score written by Mozart at the age of 14, Mitridate explores the tension of family ties amidst jealousy, aging, betrayal, and desire.

BLO Music Director David Angus conducts and stage director James Darrah leads an extraordinary cast that includes Brenda Rae as Aspasia, John Holiday as Farnace, and celebrated tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the title role.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Carley covers the role of Ismene.

Passion and politics collide in this star-studded production of Mozart’s rarely performed work. Against the backdrop of a raging war, the King of Pontus must put his family’s loyalty to the test. With a bristling score written by Mozart at the age of 14, Mitridate explores the tension of family ties amidst jealousy, aging, betrayal, and desire.

BLO Music Director David Angus conducts and stage director James Darrah leads an extraordinary cast that includes Brenda Rae as Aspasia, John Holiday as Farnace, and celebrated tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the title role.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Carley joins members of Boston Lyric Opera for an afternoon concert at the Boston Public Library.

Join us for our longstanding, series-finale opera performance as part of our Friday lunchtime concerts that feature local musicians playing a range of genres. This concert is also part of our Revolutionary Music: Music and Social Change programmatic theme.

Now in its 47th Season, Boston Lyric Opera is dedicated to creating compelling operatic experiences throughout the greater Boston area that welcome new audiences, break new ground, and enrich community life. Since its founding in 1976, Boston Lyric Opera has produced world and US premieres, Pulitzer Prize-winning operas, and notable commissions and co-productions, ranging from live stage shows to films streamed worldwide.

For more information, visit the BPL website