NEXT Ensemble is set to perform at the Peabody Institute on Feb. 14, 2025. The showcase, titled “Songs from Inside” will feature the “Canti di Prionia” by Luigi Dallapiccola and “Neither Persons Nor Property” by Peabody alumnus Elijah Daniel Smith, set to texts by Brian D. Fuller, a writer incarcerated in Texas. Joining the NEXT Ensemble is the icarus Quartet {…}
Every Friday, Polina Lyapustina delivers a short essay on some of the most sensitive topics in the industry with the intent of establishing a dialogue about the opera world and its future. “Real music is right in the heart of what we struggle. Our task is not to be a leisure activity, but to go the places where no political {…}
In a symposium on February 10 hosted by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, a panel of prominent artists, administrators, and fundraisers will meet to explore the post-Covid landscape of the performing arts. Titled “The Next Normal: Arts Innovation and Resilience in a Post-Covid World,” the event will be free to watch online, with registration required at Peabody’s {…}
Baritone William Benjamin Ray, Sr. passed away at the age of 94 on July 3, 2019. His death has been attributed to congestive heart failure. According to the Baltimore Sun, Ray was a Lexington, Kentucky-born opera singer and civil rights activist who began singing at the tender age of six. As a young man, Ray was drafted and served as part {…}