Three Boston-based organizations are joining forces with WCRB Classical Radio Boston to put together Festival 1750, a 10-day broadcast music festival. The showcase, which kicks off on April 20, 2020, features Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Early Music Festival. “As WCRB continues to explore ways to keep our audience and Boston’s vibrant music community connected, we {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society has pledged to pay musicians for canceled concerts scheduled throughout the remainder of the 2019-20 season. Per a press release, the company will pay artists 100 percent of the salary contractually agreed upon. The payments will total over $350,000 for 88 orchestra and chorus musicians. Artists will receive their payments on the same day they {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society has appointed Reginald Mobley as the company’s very first programming consultant. A classically-trained countertenor, Mobley is also director of the Handel and Haydn Society’s “Every Voice” program which performs works from underrepresented composers. “In his three seasons leading our Every Voice concerts, Reggie has shown his talent for finding brilliant but neglected works by composers {…}
The Handel + Haydn Society has announced its 2020-21 season, which features a wide range of performances, including 10 company premieres. As always, our focus will be on performances of the operatic and vocal variety. The season kicks off with a performance of Brahms’ “A German Requiem” featuring soprano Amanda Majeski and baritone Ryan McKinny. Conductor Harry Bicket will lead {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society will perform Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on Friday, April 3 and Sunday, April 5 at Boston’s Symphony Hall. The famed work will be conducted by Artistic Director Harry Christophers with soloists tenor Joshua Ellicott, bass-baritone Matthew Brook, soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzosoprano Paula Murrihy, tenor Jeremy Budd, and bass-baritone Stephan Macleod. Christophers last did the famed {…}
The Bregenzer Festspiele has announced its 2020 season, featuring a lineup of opera and vocal performances. Running from July 22, 2020, to August 23, the festival will be celebrating its 75th anniversary with a diverse and ambitious program. Among the operatic works are Verdi’s “Rigoletto”. Opening July 23, this popular production, directed by Philipp Stolzi and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, {…}
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society will continue its annual holiday tradition of presenting Handel’s beloved choral work “Messiah.” H + H gave the American premiere of “Messiah” in its entirety in 1818, and has showcased the “dazzling and joyous” work every year since 1854. The sixty-member professional Baroque chorus and period instrument orchestra will be joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts, {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society will opens its 205th season with A Mozart Celebration. The season will commence with a cherished selection of Mozart favorites, including “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” Mass in C Minor, K.427, Great, Concert aria, “Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gonner!,” and Concert aria “Ah, lo previdi!” – “Ah t’invola” – “Deh, non varcar.” The concert will feature award-winning soprano Joelle Harvey, who will {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society will collaborate with Castle of Our Skins to present a free community concert, “Nigra Sum Sed Formosa: I Am Black But Beautiful.” According to the press release, the performance, directed by Reginald L. Mobley, Ashleigh Gordon, and Dr. Jennifer Kane, “will celebrate the breadth and depth of black artistry with powerful music from black composers across {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society will honor David Gergen for his significant contributions to the organization at the upcoming Society Ball Gala. Gergen is the Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and serves as a senior political analyst at CNN. As an appreciator of the fine arts, he and his wife Anne Gergen {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society will conclude its 2018-19 season with a performance of Mozart’s final masterpiece, “Requiem.” The program is also set to include Mozart’s intensely emotional “Masonic Funeral Music,” Allegri’s “Miserere mei, Deus,” which “captures the profound sadness, weight and power of the Passion story,” and Bach’s motet “Singet dem Herrn.” Featured vocalists will include soprano Joelle Harvey, {…}