Celebrity Series of Boston: Mahler 3
Feb
10
7:30 PM19:30

Celebrity Series of Boston: Mahler 3

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.

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True Concord: I Dream A World
Feb
27
4:00 PM16:00

True Concord: I Dream A World

JAKE RUNESTAD Dreams of the Fallen
PETER BOYER Dreaming a World

Combining the musical forces of solo piano, chorus and orchestra with powerful texts written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, Jake Runestad’s Dreams of the Fallen explores a soldier’s experience of war and its lasting impact.

Peter Boyer’s gorgeous and uplifting Dreaming a World, with texts from Langston Hughes, Native American prayers and Walt Whitman, plus references to Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez and more, is a collection of American ideals focused on equality and the dream of all people living in harmony.

For more information and tickets, visit True Concord’s website

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True Concord: I Dream A World
Feb
28
4:00 PM16:00

True Concord: I Dream A World

JAKE RUNESTAD Dreams of the Fallen
PETER BOYER Dreaming a World

Combining the musical forces of solo piano, chorus and orchestra with powerful texts written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, Jake Runestad’s Dreams of the Fallen explores a soldier’s experience of war and its lasting impact.

Peter Boyer’s gorgeous and uplifting Dreaming a World, with texts from Langston Hughes, Native American prayers and Walt Whitman, plus references to Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez and more, is a collection of American ideals focused on equality and the dream of all people living in harmony.

For more information and tickets, visit True Concord’s website

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True Concord: I Dream A World
Mar
1
3:00 PM15:00

True Concord: I Dream A World

JAKE RUNESTAD Dreams of the Fallen
PETER BOYER Dreaming a World

Combining the musical forces of solo piano, chorus and orchestra with powerful texts written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, Jake Runestad’s Dreams of the Fallen explores a soldier’s experience of war and its lasting impact.

Peter Boyer’s gorgeous and uplifting Dreaming a World, with texts from Langston Hughes, Native American prayers and Walt Whitman, plus references to Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez and more, is a collection of American ideals focused on equality and the dream of all people living in harmony.

For more information and tickets, visit True Concord’s website

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True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook
Apr
17
4:00 PM16:00

True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook

Highlights from Bernstein’s West Side Story &
Choral Arrangements of Hits from The Great American Songbook

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the great classics of the 20th century. Conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this work takes the classic tale into a relatable modern American context, changing the landscape of American musicals. Bernstein’s evocative style brings to life the story of love in the face of division.

Swing to The Great American Songbook, the American pop music of the 1920’s to 50’s, with sounds and songs that reflect who we were and where we came from. When you hear these songs, you know them! This is the music that is in our cultural DNA.

For more information and tickets, please visit True Concord’s website

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True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook
Apr
18
4:00 PM16:00

True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook

Highlights from Bernstein’s West Side Story &
Choral Arrangements of Hits from The Great American Songbook

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the great classics of the 20th century. Conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this work takes the classic tale into a relatable modern American context, changing the landscape of American musicals. Bernstein’s evocative style brings to life the story of love in the face of division.

Swing to The Great American Songbook, the American pop music of the 1920’s to 50’s, with sounds and songs that reflect who we were and where we came from. When you hear these songs, you know them! This is the music that is in our cultural DNA.

For more information and tickets, please visit True Concord’s website

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True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook
Apr
19
3:00 PM15:00

True Concord: West Side Story & The Great American Songbook

Highlights from Bernstein’s West Side Story &
Choral Arrangements of Hits from The Great American Songbook

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the great classics of the 20th century. Conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this work takes the classic tale into a relatable modern American context, changing the landscape of American musicals. Bernstein’s evocative style brings to life the story of love in the face of division.

Swing to The Great American Songbook, the American pop music of the 1920’s to 50’s, with sounds and songs that reflect who we were and where we came from. When you hear these songs, you know them! This is the music that is in our cultural DNA.

For more information and tickets, please visit True Concord’s website

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Emmanuel Music: Herr Gott, Dich loben alle wir, BWV 130
May
10
10:00 AM10:00

Emmanuel Music: Herr Gott, Dich loben alle wir, BWV 130

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

* This is the final weekend of the 2025-2026 Cantata Series. The series will resume in September, 2026.

Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 15 Newbury Street


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

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Boston Symphony Orchestra & Boston Lyric Opera: Vanessa
Jan
10
8:00 PM20:00

Boston Symphony Orchestra & Boston Lyric Opera: Vanessa

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

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Boston Symphony Orchestra & Boston Lyric Opera: Vanessa
Jan
8
7:30 PM19:30

Boston Symphony Orchestra & Boston Lyric Opera: Vanessa

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

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Emmanuel Music: Christmas Oratorio
Dec
14
2:00 PM14:00

Emmanuel Music: Christmas Oratorio

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

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Emmanuel Music: Christmas Oratorio
Dec
13
7:00 PM19:00

Emmanuel Music: Christmas Oratorio

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

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Bach, Beethoven & Brahms Society: Bach's Air, Barber's Adagio, & Frazin's Peace Cantata
Nov
16
4:00 PM16:00

Bach, Beethoven & Brahms Society: Bach's Air, Barber's Adagio, & Frazin's Peace Cantata

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

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Emmanuel Music: Dido's Ghost
Oct
19
2:00 PM14:00

Emmanuel Music: Dido's Ghost

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
Corrine Byrne, Belinda
Rebecca Miller Kratzer, Director
Shura Baryshnikov, Choreographer

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Emmanuel Music: Dido's Ghost
Oct
18
7:00 PM19:00

Emmanuel Music: Dido's Ghost

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
Corrine Byrne, Belinda
Rebecca Miller Kratzer, Director
Shura Baryshnikov, Choreographer

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Music Worcester and Musicians of the Old Post Road: The Complete Bach Project
Oct
5
4:00 PM16:00

Music Worcester and Musicians of the Old Post Road: The Complete Bach Project

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

Both BWV 170 and 173 are sacred cantatas written for the season that follows Easter. The contrast in BWV 209 is not only structure and instrumentation, but that it’s one of Bach’s only settings of text in Italian. This cantata’s material is mournful, with references to departing and sailing off to sea. These cantatas feature symphonic moments as much as soloistic, making this performance a delight for listeners of all musical preferences. 

Program

Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 
Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut, BWV 173 
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209 

For more information and tickets, please click here.

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Sarasa Ensemble: @1775
Sep
14
3:30 PM15:30

Sarasa Ensemble: @1775

“Do not neglect your music,” Thomas Jefferson wrote his daughter. “It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.” Works that would have been heard in 1775 across four capital cities. Composers include Billings, Arne, JC Bach, Barsanti, Cervetto, Baltzar, Lanzetti, Haydn, & Mozart.

Carley DeFranco, soprano; Susanna Ogata, violin; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos;
Andrus Madsen, fortepiano 

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown

Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

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

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Sarasa Ensemble: @1775
Sep
13
7:00 PM19:00

Sarasa Ensemble: @1775

“Do not neglect your music,” Thomas Jefferson wrote his daughter. “It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.” Works that would have been heard in 1775 across four capital cities. Composers include Billings, Arne, JC Bach, Barsanti, Cervetto, Baltzar, Lanzetti, Haydn, & Mozart.

Carley DeFranco, soprano; Susanna Ogata, violin; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos;
Andrus Madsen, fortepiano 

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown

Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

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

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Sarasa Ensemble: @1775
Sep
12
7:00 PM19:00

Sarasa Ensemble: @1775

“Do not neglect your music,” Thomas Jefferson wrote his daughter. “It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.” Works that would have been heard in 1775 across four capital cities. Composers include Billings, Arne, JC Bach, Barsanti, Cervetto, Baltzar, Lanzetti, Haydn, & Mozart.

Carley DeFranco, soprano; Susanna Ogata, violin; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos;
Andrus Madsen, fortepiano 

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown

Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

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

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Monadnock Music: Nelson Village Concert
Aug
6
7:00 PM19:00

Monadnock Music: Nelson Village Concert

Our final village concert of the season is a celebration of love featuring some of the greatest composers of art song over the past two centuries. From the sultry to the chaste, from joyful innocence to deepest sorrow, our musicians will take you on a journey through the innermost recesses of the heart.

Carley DeFranco, soprano

Omar Najmi, tenor

Eliko Akahori, piano

For more information, including the concert location and program, please visit Monadnock Music’s website

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St. Ann's Kennebunkport: Concerto Delle Donne
Aug
3
5:00 PM17:00

St. Ann's Kennebunkport: Concerto Delle Donne

Concerti delle donne (consorts of ladies) were groups of professional female singers that flourished in late 16th century Italy. Duc Alfonso II d’Este featured these ensembles at the court’s regular chamber music concerts. This is a rare opportunity to hear this virtuosic, highly ornamented style of singing.

Works for one, two and three voices by: L. Rossi, L. Luzzaschi, D. Mazzocchi and C. Monteverdi

For tickets and more information, please visit this link.

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Boston Lyric Opera: Street Stage @ Rose Kennedy Greenway
Jul
30
6:30 PM18:30

Boston Lyric Opera: Street Stage @ Rose Kennedy Greenway

Carley & Morgan Mastrangelo, tenor, perform operatic hits and highlights from American musical theatre.

Boston Lyric Opera’s Street Stage was born in 2020, created to bring the power of live opera directly to communities during a time when gathering safely was a challenge. What began as a creative response to the pandemic has grown into a beloved tradition across Greater Boston. Our custom-built mobile stage brings world-class, live performances to parks, plazas, and street corners, completely free and open to all. Whether you’re a longtime opera lover or hearing it for the first time, BLO Street Stage invites everyone to experience the joy of live music, right in their own neighborhood.

For more information, please visit BLO’s website

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SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South
Jul
10
7:30 PM19:30

SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South

Silentwoods Collective dives into the passionate and fiery music of Southern Italy, a region rich in Greek and Arab cultural heritage. Rituals of the early modern and pre-Christian eras reveal not only antiquity’s aesthetic influences in the area but also functional relations. Evolving and mutating with each passing generation, one example of such relationships is the lore surrounding the tarantella, a genre descending from ancient times. A reaction to emotional and or physical trauma, this program traces the lineage of the tarantella’s vigorous energy through the centuries to the ecstatic rituals involving music and dance surrounding the orphic and bacchic cults of antiquity. As the musicians explore these and other stories and rituals of Southern Italy, they illuminate gems of a seldom performed and understudied repertoire–works by Scarlatti, Coya, Caresana, Giulio de Ruvo, Provenzale, and more.

Silentwoods Collective
Carley DeFranco, soprano
Danilo Bonina & Nelli Herskovitz-Jabotinsky, violins
Andrew Koutroubas, cello
John McKean, harpsichord 
Luce Burrell, theorbo

Tuesday July 8 | St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, Lincoln, MA

Wednesday July 9 | The Chapel at West Parish, Andover, MA

Thursday July 10 | Lindsay Chapel at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA

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SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South
Jul
9
7:30 PM19:30

SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South

Silentwoods Collective dives into the passionate and fiery music of Southern Italy, a region rich in Greek and Arab cultural heritage. Rituals of the early modern and pre-Christian eras reveal not only antiquity’s aesthetic influences in the area but also functional relations. Evolving and mutating with each passing generation, one example of such relationships is the lore surrounding the tarantella, a genre descending from ancient times. A reaction to emotional and or physical trauma, this program traces the lineage of the tarantella’s vigorous energy through the centuries to the ecstatic rituals involving music and dance surrounding the orphic and bacchic cults of antiquity. As the musicians explore these and other stories and rituals of Southern Italy, they illuminate gems of a seldom performed and understudied repertoire–works by Scarlatti, Coya, Caresana, Giulio de Ruvo, Provenzale, and more.

Silentwoods Collective
Carley DeFranco, soprano
Danilo Bonina & Nelli Herskovitz-Jabotinsky, violins
Andrew Koutroubas, cello
John McKean, harpsichord 
Luce Burrell, theorbo

Tuesday July 8 | St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, Lincoln, MA

Wednesday July 9 | The Chapel at West Parish, Andover, MA

Thursday July 10 | Lindsay Chapel at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA

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SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South
Jul
8
7:30 PM19:30

SoHIP & Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South

Silentwoods Collective dives into the passionate and fiery music of Southern Italy, a region rich in Greek and Arab cultural heritage. Rituals of the early modern and pre-Christian eras reveal not only antiquity’s aesthetic influences in the area but also functional relations. Evolving and mutating with each passing generation, one example of such relationships is the lore surrounding the tarantella, a genre descending from ancient times. A reaction to emotional and or physical trauma, this program traces the lineage of the tarantella’s vigorous energy through the centuries to the ecstatic rituals involving music and dance surrounding the orphic and bacchic cults of antiquity. As the musicians explore these and other stories and rituals of Southern Italy, they illuminate gems of a seldom performed and understudied repertoire–works by Scarlatti, Coya, Caresana, Giulio de Ruvo, Provenzale, and more.

Silentwoods Collective
Carley DeFranco, soprano
Danilo Bonina & Nelli Herskovitz-Jabotinsky, violins
Andrew Koutroubas, cello
John McKean, harpsichord 
Luce Burrell, theorbo

Tuesday July 8 | St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, Lincoln, MA

Wednesday July 9 | The Chapel at West Parish, Andover, MA

Thursday July 10 | Lindsay Chapel at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA

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Oregon Bach Festival: Mass in B Minor
Jul
6
4:00 PM16:00

Oregon Bach Festival: Mass in B Minor

Universally considered Bach’s crowning achievement, the profound and astounding Mass is the summation of a lifetime of work. It took decades to complete and remains a testament to Bach’s faith and artistic virtuosity.

OBF Ripieno Ensemble
OBF Baroque Orchestra
Rowan Pierce, soprano I
Clara Osowski, soprano II
Ulrike Malotta, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

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

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