For its mid-winter production, Peabody Opera Theatre stages and tours a family-friendly version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. In 2022 Peabody commissioned arranger and conductor Nicholas Hersh and librettist Laura Fuentes to update the 19th-century opera version of the German fairy tale, resulting in a roughly 45-minute jazz-orchestration version, in English, wherein siblings Hansel […]
Singing Their Unsung Song: A Celebration of Underrepresented Composers spotlights art songwriters who struggled to find success due to their gender, race, sexuality, religion, or disability.
For its mid-winter production, Peabody Opera Theatre stages and tours a family-friendly version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. In 2022 Peabody commissioned arranger and conductor Nicholas Hersh and librettist Laura Fuentes to update the 19th-century opera version of the German fairy tale, resulting in a roughly 45-minute jazz-orchestration version, in English, wherein siblings Hansel […]
Zachary Detrick: Le Tombeau de Maurice Sendak Michael Balsamo: Tears of Strings Carlos Meyers: Nexus I Yoonjung Lee: Dancing on Knives Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles Joseph Young leads the Peabody Symphony Orchestra through Zachary Detrick’s Le Tombeau de Mauris Sendak, and conducting graduate student Michael Djabarov leads the PSO through new works […]
Djordje Nesic, conductor Erin Ridge, director Tickets General Admission: $25 Seniors: $15 Students: $10 Additional Performances February 17 | 3:00 pm February 17 | 7:30 pm February 18 | 4:00 pm
Djordje Nesic, conductor Erin Ridge, director Tickets General Admission: $25 Seniors: $15 Students: $10 Additional Performances February 16 | 7:30 pm February 17 | 7:30 pm February 18 | 4:00 pm
Djordje Nesic, conductor Erin Ridge, director Tickets General Admission: $25 Seniors: $15 Students: $10 Additional Performances February 16 | 7:30 pm February 17 | 3:00 pm February 18 | 4:00 pm
Djordje Nesic, conductor Erin Ridge, director Tickets General Admission: $25 Seniors: $15 Students: $10 Additional Performances February 16 | 7:30 pm February 17 | 3:00 pm February 17 | 7:30 pm
The Peabody Percussion Group, led by faculty artist Jeff Stern (MM ’14, Percussion), performs a program portrait of American composer Garth Neustadter, including his percussion sextet with video work Seaborne, his arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango, and Memory of Water for choir and percussion sextet, for which the PPG will be joined by […]
Ethel’s Love Legacy at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson features Charenée Wade and Sean Jones leading the Peabody Jazz Ensemble, as well as a program also curated by Brinae Ali.
Made possible by the generous support of the Augustine Foundation. We welcome legendary guitarist Sharon Isbin to the Peabody Preparatory for a master class featuring Peabody Preparatory students followed by an interview with Assistant Director of the Preparatory Risa Carlson. This event is free to attend and is open to the community.
This free concert continues the decades-long tradition of celebrating student musicians and performers of the African Diaspora. Attendees can expect to be awed by the talent of the student performers, as they each share their gifts through voice, dance and instrumental performances. The program will be approximately 1.5 hours followed by a reception including light […]
Janie Cole Yale Institute of Sacred Music Talk title: "Sacred Music, Space, and Afro-Eurasian Encounters in the Christian Kingdom of Early Modern Ethiopia"
Peabody Jazz faculty artist Fran Vielma performs his own original compositions and world-music-influenced arrangements of contemporary jazz, with Savino Palumbo, piano; Steve Arnold, acoustic bass; and Luis Hernández, saxophones.
Marin Alsop, conductor Yilun Xu, piano Iryna Aleksiychuk: Go Where the Wind Takes You... Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Sergei Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 26
This performance is dedicated to dedicated to Iranian women and features composer Aida Shirazi’s “Portrait” and “Soliloquy of the unnamed” for solo voice and violin and the world premiere of “Woman, Life, Freedom,” a multi-movement piece for solo violin and SSAA choir by composers Jane Kozhevnikova, Bahar Royaee, Sarah Rimkus, Anna Pidgorna, and soloist Negar […]