Musicians of the Old Post Road: Christmas Far and Wide
Dec
14
4:00 PM16:00

Musicians of the Old Post Road: Christmas Far and Wide

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

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Musicians of the Old Post Road: Christmas Far and Wide
Dec
15
4:00 PM16:00

Musicians of the Old Post Road: Christmas Far and Wide

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.

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Handel + Haydn Society: Crossing the Deep
Jan
17
7:30 PM19:30

Handel + Haydn Society: Crossing the Deep

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.

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Handel + Haydn Society: Crossing the Deep
Jan
19
3:00 PM15:00

Handel + Haydn Society: Crossing the Deep

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.

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Handel + Haydn Society: Haydn + Beethoven
Mar
28
7:30 PM19:30

Handel + Haydn Society: Haydn + Beethoven

Carley sings with the H+H Chorus.

Reawaken your senses, reinvigorate your spirit, and celebrate spring with your H+H community! Harmonies burst through the Symphony Hall air like daffodils through the snow as Jonathan Cohen leads the superlative H+H Orchestra and Chorus in that sweetest of Haydn’s The Seasons. Then, our “gem of a chorus…makes a truly glorious noise” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) as serenity gives way to rapture in Beethoven’s mesmerizing Mass in C Major.

For tickets and more information, please click here.

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Handel + Haydn Society: Haydn + Beethoven
Mar
30
3:00 PM15:00

Handel + Haydn Society: Haydn + Beethoven

Carley sings with the H+H Chorus.

Reawaken your senses, reinvigorate your spirit, and celebrate spring with your H+H community! Harmonies burst through the Symphony Hall air like daffodils through the snow as Jonathan Cohen leads the superlative H+H Orchestra and Chorus in that sweetest of Haydn’s The Seasons. Then, our “gem of a chorus…makes a truly glorious noise” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) as serenity gives way to rapture in Beethoven’s mesmerizing Mass in C Major.

For tickets and more information, please click here.

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Boston Lyric Opera: Aida
Nov
10
3:00 PM15:00

Boston Lyric Opera: Aida

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.

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Emmanuel Music: Songs of Lost Innocence
Oct
20
4:00 PM16:00

Emmanuel Music: Songs of Lost Innocence

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

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Harvard Musical Association presents Emmanuel Music: Songs of Lost Innocence
Oct
17
7:00 PM19:00

Harvard Musical Association presents Emmanuel Music: Songs of Lost Innocence

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

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Boston Lyric Opera: Street Stage
Sep
26
12:30 PM12:30

Boston Lyric Opera: Street Stage

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. 

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Boston Lyric Opera: Mitridate (Ismene *cover)
Sep
15
3:00 PM15:00

Boston Lyric Opera: Mitridate (Ismene *cover)

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.

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Boston Lyric Opera: Mitridate (Ismene *cover)
Sep
13
7:30 PM19:30

Boston Lyric Opera: Mitridate (Ismene *cover)

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.

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Boston Lyric Opera/Boston Public Library: Concerts in the Couryard
Aug
30
12:30 PM12:30

Boston Lyric Opera/Boston Public Library: Concerts in the Couryard

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

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Monadnock Music: Hancock Village Concert
Jul
21
6:00 PM18:00

Monadnock Music: Hancock Village Concert

Hancock Village Concert: Recital for Soprano, Cello, and Piano

Program

Pauline Viardot – Sterne

Amy Beach – Chanson d’amour

Lotte Lehmann – Selected songs

Adolphus Hailstork – Elegy for cello and piano

Tania León – Atwood Songs

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Six Studies in English Folksong

Hugo Wolf – Mignon-Lieder

Andre Previn – Vocalise

For more information, visit Monadnock Music’s website

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Bachfest Leipzig: CHORal TOTAL
Jun
9
3:00 PM15:00

Bachfest Leipzig: CHORal TOTAL

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music at Bachfest Leipzig 2024: CHORal TOTAL. Ryan Turner conducts.

CHORALE CANTATAS

No 34 Chorale cantatas 4

J. S. Bach: Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 • J. Harbison: Prelude Motet to BWV 101 • J. S. Bach: Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 • J. S. Bach: Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113 • E. Wallen: Prelude Motet to BWV 137 • J. S. Bach: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137

ARTISTS: Thomasorganist Johannes Lang, Solisten, Emmanuel Music Boston (USA), direction: Ryan Turner

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Emmanuel Music: Bachfest in Boston
Jun
5
7:00 PM19:00

Emmanuel Music: Bachfest in Boston

Carley is a soloist with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music. Ryan Turner conducts.

Emmanuel Music goes to Leipzig! We’re deeply honored to have been invited to participate in this global celebration of Bach, and wish we could take all our Boston friends with us. Before we head to BachFest in Germany, we want to share the experience of BachFest — with some added benefits — for our local audience. Experience our program of four Bach cantatas, accompanied by newly commissioned motets inspired by each of the Bach works. Emmanuel Music continues our mission of serving as a living laboratory of Bach, both at home and abroad.

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Boston Choral Ensemble: Fauré Requiem
May
18
7:00 PM19:00

Boston Choral Ensemble: Fauré Requiem

Carley is the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem.

Boston Choral Ensemble performs Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem in an innovative, fully-staged production of this classic choral work in collaboration with director Patrick Chiu. This performance combines theatrical movement with exquisite choral singing, to take the audience on a journey through a world of unknowns to find glory and hope.

For more information and tickets, please visit Boston Choral Ensemble’s website

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Handel & Haydn Society: Brahms Requiem
Apr
21
3:00 PM15:00

Handel & Haydn Society: Brahms Requiem

Savor the richness of Brahms in this profound performance that captures the full shimmering spectrum of human emotion. It’s a perfect showcase for our chorus—almost as if this deeply spiritual music were written just for them. With celebrated period instrument conductor Bernard Labadie at the helm, you’ll take part in the rare thrill of hearing these pieces played on the instruments Brahms knew best, surrounding yourself with the healing sounds that brought him solace following his mother’s death. This majestic offering matches ferocity with tenderness, boldness with beauty, promising goosebumps from start to finish.

Brahms: Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Song)
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
James Atkinson, baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

For more information and tickets, please visit this link

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Handel & Haydn Society: Brahms Requiem
Apr
19
7:30 PM19:30

Handel & Haydn Society: Brahms Requiem

Savor the richness of Brahms in this profound performance that captures the full shimmering spectrum of human emotion. It’s a perfect showcase for our chorus—almost as if this deeply spiritual music were written just for them. With celebrated period instrument conductor Bernard Labadie at the helm, you’ll take part in the rare thrill of hearing these pieces played on the instruments Brahms knew best, surrounding yourself with the healing sounds that brought him solace following his mother’s death. This majestic offering matches ferocity with tenderness, boldness with beauty, promising goosebumps from start to finish.

Brahms: Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Song)
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
James Atkinson, baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

For more information and tickets, please visit this link

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Emmanuel Music: St. Matthew Passion
Mar
23
4:00 PM16:00

Emmanuel Music: St. Matthew Passion

Rousing us from winter to celebrate the awakening spring, Emmanuel Music performs one of the greatest masterpieces of Baroque music, the St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach, BWV 244. Performed by two orchestras, two choruses, and a children’s chorus, a narrator and an array of soloists enact an exhilarating and dramatic theatrical experience, immersive and electrifying.

For tickets and more information, please visit this link

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Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia
Mar
10
3:30 PM15:30

Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia

Anónimo from Amazonia: Bolivian Mission Baroque

A sunny program of secular and sacred Baroque music from the Missions of Bolivia with an undeniable impulse from the folk element of its indigenous people.

With Carley DeFranco, soprano; Jesse Irons, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jennifer Morsches, cello; William Simms, theorbo/Baroque guitar; John McKean, organ.

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge (tickets here)

Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington (tickets here)

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Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia
Mar
9
7:00 PM19:00

Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia

Anónimo from Amazonia: Bolivian Mission Baroque

A sunny program of secular and sacred Baroque music from the Missions of Bolivia with an undeniable impulse from the folk element of its indigenous people.

With Carley DeFranco, soprano; Jesse Irons, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jennifer Morsches, cello; William Simms, theorbo/Baroque guitar; John McKean, organ.

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge (tickets here)

Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington (tickets here)

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Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia
Mar
8
7:00 PM19:00

Sarasa Ensemble: Anónimo from Amazonia

Anónimo from Amazonia: Bolivian Mission Baroque

A sunny program of secular and sacred Baroque music from the Missions of Bolivia with an undeniable impulse from the folk element of its indigenous people.

With Carley DeFranco, soprano; Jesse Irons, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jennifer Morsches, cello; William Simms, theorbo/Baroque guitar; John McKean, organ.

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge (tickets here)

Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington (tickets here)

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