Carley sings in an octet; performances of new music by Harvard University students.

Paine Hall at Harvard University

3 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

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 is a soloist with the Harvard Glee Club in Thomas Lloyd’s Bonhoeffer. Andrew Clark conducts.

First Church in Cambridge

11 Garden Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

For more information and tickets, please visit Harvard Glee Club’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 Chorus of Emmanuel Music in Emmanuel Church’s Tenebrae service. Ryan Turner conducts.

Lindsay Chapel at Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

15 Newbury Street

Carley is a soloist with Emmanuel Music in Emmanuel Church’s Good Friday Service. Ryan Turner conducts.

Lindsay Chapel at Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

15 Newbury Street

Carley sings the role of Hanne with Chorus Pro Musica in their performance of Haydn’s The Seasons. Jamie Kirsch conducts.

For tickets and more information, please visit Chorus Pro Musica’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 is a soloist with Boston Cecilia. Michael Barrett conducts.

Featuring JS Bach’s Gloria, BWV 191, and Cantata Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille BWV 120.1, and famous arias and choruses from Handel’s oratorios, performed over the years.

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

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, music director

Gerhild Romberger mezzo-soprano
Boston Lyric Opera Chorus, Brett Hodgdon director
Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School, Brandon Straub music director

Get ready for an evening of music that holds nothing back. Mahler’s Third Symphony is a colossal masterpiece, featuring two choirs, an expanded orchestra, and an alto soloist. The epic work embraces the forces of nature, the exuberance of life, the innocence of childhood, and the transcendent beauty of love. 

For tickets and more information, please visit the Celebrity Series 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 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 DeFranco and Corrine Byrne, sopranos, perform Kevin Siegfried’s Three Shaker Songs. This Seminar event preludes Coolidge Corner Theatre’s showing of The Testament of Ann Lee.

For tickets and more information, please visit Coolidge Corner Theatre’s website.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Jennifer Holloway, soprano (Vanessa)

Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano (Erika)

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (The Old Baroness) Pavel Černoch, tenor

(Anatol) Thomas Hampson, baritone (The Old Doctor)

Wei Wu, bass (Major Domo/Footman)

Alexandra Dietrich, staging coordinator

Tanglewood Festival Chorus , Betsy Burleigh, guest choral conductor

Boston Lyric Opera Chorus, Brett Hodgdon, conductor

BARBER Vanessa

Composed by Samuel Barber
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Presented under license from G, Schirmer, Inc., copyright owners

Andris Nelsons leads some of the most acclaimed stars of opera today in performances of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, a work considered by many the greatest American opera. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Vanessa premiered at the Metropolitan Opera that year. Barber wrote the opera on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti; they aimed for a cosmopolitan, nostalgic work on lost love and the consequences of self-delusion. Barber’s romantic lyricism is ever-present in this powerfully affecting work, a centerpiece of this season’s E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One focus.

For tickets and more information, please visit BSO’s website

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Jennifer Holloway, soprano (Vanessa)

Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano (Erika)

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (The Old Baroness) Pavel Černoch, tenor

(Anatol) Thomas Hampson, baritone (The Old Doctor)

Wei Wu, bass (Major Domo/Footman)

Alexandra Dietrich, staging coordinator

Tanglewood Festival Chorus , Betsy Burleigh, guest choral conductor

Boston Lyric Opera Chorus, Brett Hodgdon, conductor

BARBER Vanessa

Composed by Samuel Barber
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Presented under license from G, Schirmer, Inc., copyright owners

Andris Nelsons leads some of the most acclaimed stars of opera today in performances of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, a work considered by many the greatest American opera. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Vanessa premiered at the Metropolitan Opera that year. Barber wrote the opera on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti; they aimed for a cosmopolitan, nostalgic work on lost love and the consequences of self-delusion. Barber’s romantic lyricism is ever-present in this powerfully affecting work, a centerpiece of this season’s E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One focus.

For tickets and more information, please visit BSO’s website

Carley is a soloist and chorister in Ensemble Altera’s Messiah. Christopher Lowrey conducts.

12.19.25 | 7:00PM | St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bristol, RI
12.20.25 | 7:00PM | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford, RI
12.21.25 | 1:00 and 3:30PM | Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI

For tickets and more information, visit Ensemble Altera’s website.

Carley is a soloist and chorister in Ensemble Altera’s Messiah. Christopher Lowrey conducts.

12.19.25 | 7:00PM | St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bristol, RI
12.20.25 | 7:00PM | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford, RI
12.21.25 | 1:00 and 3:30PM | Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI

For tickets and more information, visit Ensemble Altera’s website.

Carley is a soloist and chorister in Ensemble Altera’s Messiah. Christopher Lowrey conducts.

12.19.25 | 7:00PM | St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bristol, RI
12.20.25 | 7:00PM | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford, RI
12.21.25 | 1:00 and 3:30PM | Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI

For tickets and more information, visit Ensemble Altera’s website.

Carley is a soloist and chorister in Ensemble Altera’s Messiah. Christopher Lowrey conducts.

12.19.25 | 7:00PM | St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bristol, RI
12.20.25 | 7:00PM | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford, RI
12.21.25 | 1:00 and 3:30PM | Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI

For tickets and more information, visit Ensemble Altera’s website.

The six cantatas of the radiant Christmas Oratorio ignite the holiday spirit with Bach’s unparalleled brilliance played out in exquisite pastoral scenes, profound vocal solos, and dazzling choruses. Join us as we continue our cherished tradition, crafting a holiday experience that resonates with timeless joy.

Tickets and more information coming soon

The six cantatas of the radiant Christmas Oratorio ignite the holiday spirit with Bach’s unparalleled brilliance played out in exquisite pastoral scenes, profound vocal solos, and dazzling choruses. Join us as we continue our cherished tradition, crafting a holiday experience that resonates with timeless joy.

Tickets and more information coming soon

Carley is a soloist with the Spectrum Singers. Max Holman conducts.

A celebration of St. Cecilia on her feast day, highlighting music written for her by female composers who epitomized her spirit and by composers who revered her.

For more information and tickets, please visit Spectrum’s website

J.S. Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3

Arthur Foote: Air & Gavotte

John Corigliano: Fantasia on a Bach Air

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Howard Frazin: Peace Cantata [Boston premiere]

(Carley DeFranco, soprano; Krista River, mezzo-soprano; Keith Phares, baritone)

Bach's ineffable 'Air' has been moving music-lovers for over 300 years, also inspiring other composers to use it as a model. It may be the only piece of music played at as many weddings as funerals, an illustration of the emotional power and eloquence of this miniature masterpiece. Barber's 'Adagio' shares this yearning directness with the Bach, brought to a 20th-century cri-de-coeur outpouring. Howard Frazin, a favorite of BB&B audiences, brings the Boston premiere of his recent Peace Cantata, a timely work of concern and, ultimately, hope for three vocal soloists and orchestra.

For tickets and more information, visit BB&B’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 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

Errollyn Wallen's Dido's Ghost (2021) resurrects a timeless tale, casting a haunting shadow on Virgil's epic. This chamber opera delves into the spectral aftermath of Dido's despair, exploring the lingering echoes of love and betrayal by setting the entirety of Purcell’s original Dido and Aneas as a dream sequence. Wallen's evocative new score bookends the Purcell revealing a new dimension to a familiar tragedy. Witness a powerful, intimate performance where ancient myth meets modern musicality, and the past speaks with a chilling, unforgettable voice.

Carley DeFranco, Anna/Dido
‍David Thomas Mather, Aeneas
‍Jonathan Woody, Elymas/Sorceress
‍Katherine Maysek, Lavinia/Spirit
‍Morgan Mastrangelo, Ascanius/First Sailor
Mara Riley, Belinda
‍Rebecca Miller Kratzer, Director
‍Shura Baryshnikov, Choreographer

Errollyn Wallen's Dido's Ghost (2021) resurrects a timeless tale, casting a haunting shadow on Virgil's epic. This chamber opera delves into the spectral aftermath of Dido's despair, exploring the lingering echoes of love and betrayal by setting the entirety of Purcell’s original Dido and Aneas as a dream sequence. Wallen's evocative new score bookends the Purcell revealing a new dimension to a familiar tragedy. Witness a powerful, intimate performance where ancient myth meets modern musicality, and the past speaks with a chilling, unforgettable voice.

Carley DeFranco, Anna/Dido
‍David Thomas Mather, Aeneas
‍Jonathan Woody, Elymas/Sorceress
‍Katherine Maysek, Lavinia/Spirit
‍Morgan Mastrangelo, Ascanius/First Sailor
Mara Riley, Belinda
‍Rebecca Miller Kratzer, Director
‍Shura Baryshnikov, Choreographer

Carley performs Bach cantatas BWV 173a and 209 with Musicians of the Old Post Road in Music Worcester’s ‘Complete Bach Project’.

Program

Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 
Durchlauchster Leopold, BWV 173a
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209 

For more information and tickets, please click here.