Upcoming Performances
Upcoming Performances
November 9, 2024
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Baltimore, MD
Special Project: Ockeghem
Director of Choral Studies Beth Willer welcomes Blue Heron vocal ensemble music director Scott Metcalfe for a special concert featuring members of the Peabody Vocal Ensembles and the Historical Performance department performing the works of early Renaissance composers including Johannes Okeghem.
Peabody Chamber Opera: La Calisto (1651)
In La Calisto, a comic 17th-century adaption of Greek myth, Jupiter falls for the nymph Calisto, who rejects the older man creeping on her, causing Jupiter to disguise himself as Diana, the goddess Calisto adores. Diana happens to carry a torch for shepherd Endymion, and with the addition of some mythological magic, a comic string of risqué meetings involving mistaken identities ensues.
This colorful production is a collaboration between Peabody Opera and Peabody’s Historical Performance department, providing the Baroque instrumentation under the direction of faculty artist Adam Pearl and guest directed by Luther Lewis, a multidisciplinary freelance artist who was the inaugural Ryan Opera Center Stage Director for the 2023-2024 season at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Zoë Chessa will be singing the role of Satirino.
March 6, 2025
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Baltimore, MD
Special Project: Lorelei
Director of Choral Studies Beth Willer welcomes her own SSAA vocal ensemble Lorelei for a special concert featuring members of the Peabody Vocal Ensembles performing Tim Brady’s Symphony No. 11: This One is Broken in Pieces. The piece is written for an octet of electric guitars and a treble choir.
May 2, 2025
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, MD
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
Under the direction of Dr. Beth Willer, this project is a collaboration between the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Peabody-Hopkins Conservatory Choir, NEXT Ensemble, and the Peabody Camerata. This end-of-season concert will feature Carl Orff’s masterwork Carmina Burana: Songs of Beuren.
Peabody Renaissance Ensemble: Il Vero Modo di Diminuir
Under the direction of Michael Holmes, PRE will present a program that will trace the history of Italian madrigal and frottola from its beginnings through Monteverdi, exploring the art of division and improvisation, as well as lute and organ intabulation.
February 13-16, 2025
Peabody Opera Theatre
Baltimore, MD
December 5, 7, 2024
Griswold Hall, Church of the Redeemer
Baltimore, MD
Peabody Renaissance Ensemble: I Love Lucette
The Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, under the Direction of Tina Chancey, will present a program of 15th-century French theatrical chansons telling the story of a young girl named Lucette.
June 22, 2025
Duke University Chapel
Durham, NC
Chorworks: JS BACH: MASS & MOTETS
Under the direction of Dr. Philip Cave, executive director of Chorworks and conductor-in-residence at Duke Chapel, this program will feature J.S. Bach’s sacred music, including the Missa in A Major BWV 234, and Motets by the Bach Family.
May 3, 2025
George Peabody Library
Baltimore, MD
June 14, 2025
Asbury United Methodist Church
Harrisonburg, VA
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival: The Judgement of Paris (1703)
Under the direction of Judith Malafronte, the Baroque Academy of the 2025 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival presents scenes from The Judgement of Paris with music by Eccles, Weldon, and Daniel Purcell.
Zoe Chessa will be singing the role of Mercury.
July 4, 2025
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA
Amherst Early Music Festival: Dafne (1734)
Under the direction of Richard Stone, the AEM offers the modern premiere of Georg Reutter the younger's Dafne, a festa teatrale composed for the imperial family in Vienna. Drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of classical antiquity, the opera sets the myth of woodland nymph Daphne, her desperate flight from Apollo, lovesick from Cupid’s poisoned arrow, and her magical transformation.
Zoë Chessa will be singing the role of Licenza.