Carmel Bach Festival announces its 2026 and 89th summer season. This article only features classical voice concerts. First up is Haydn’s “The Seasons” with soloists Clara Rottsolk, Thomas Cooley, and Edward Nelson. They are joined by the Festival Chorale and Orchestra. Greta Pedersen conducts. Performance Dates: July 11 & 18, 2026 Clara Rottsolk, Reginald Mobley, Thomas Cooley, and Jesse Blumberg {…}
Orchestra of St. Luke’s has unveiled its forthcoming 2026 performances in New York City. Here are the vocal performances on offer. First up is “Barber, Sondheim, and Tunick” at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Baritone John Brancy joins the ensemble for a program that includes the world premiere of Jonathan Tunick’s “Clarinet Quintet,” and selected songs by Stephen Sondheim. {…}
(Credits: Rundquist, Morrison, Linder, Kramer) The Frick Collection announces its lineup for the 2025-26 season. This article only features vocal concerts. Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout present an intimate Schubertiade featuring “Schwanengesang.” Performance Date: October 12, 2025 Paul Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants in vocal music of the Seventeenth-Eighteenth-Century Spain, France, and Italy Performance Date: October 26, {…}
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the three vocal performances. Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez opens the season in a gala performance of opera Arias. Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2025 Enrico Lopez-Yañez conducts “The Three Mexican Tenors” in a program rife with popular songs. Performance Dates: Oct. 24-26, 2025 Jader Bignamini conducts Orff’s “Carmina Burana” {…}
ChamberQUEER and the Handel and Haydn Society team up to present “BaroQUEER: Historically Informed.” The concert featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw. Performers include soprano Cassandra Extavour, countertenors Reginald Mobley and Doug Dodson, tenor Gregório Taniguchi, and baritones Brian Mummert and Dana Whiteside. The program celebrates queer perspectives {…}
The early music scene took a long time to gain traction in Australia. The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) always showed an affinity towards an informed style and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has also been operating since the 1990s. However, there has not been much competition to their work until the last decade or so, when several other organizations started diligent {…}
Saint-Denis Festival has released details of its 2025 season. This year the festival puts women in the spotlight, as a “demonstration of the important place that women now occupy in the musical world, particularly in orchestral conducting.” Only vocal works are included in this article. First up is a preview concert featuring Apolline Raï-Westphal, Louise Bourgeat-Roulleau, Jordan Mouaïssia, Léo Guillou-Keredan, {…}
The Houston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the Vocal performances of the season. Juraj Valčuha and Angel Blue team up for the opening night for an evening featuring music from J. Wolfe, Schmitt, and Stravinsky. Performance Dates: Sept. 19-21, 2025 Juanjo Mena conducts Sara Couden and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in music by De Falla {…}
The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2025 Blossom Music Festival. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Osmo Vänskä will conduct “Carmina Burana” with Shelén Hughes, Reginald Mobley, and John Brancy as the soloists. Also on the program is Sibelius’ “En Saga.” Performance Date: July 12, 2025 Elim Chan will lead a performance of Ravel’s “Shéhéreazade” with soprano {…}
Handel and Haydn Society is set to present “Crossing the Deep” on Jan. 17 and 19, 2025. The showcase, which takes place at the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, was created in 2023 by Conductor Dr. Anthony Trecek-King and countertenor Reginald Mobley as a response to the revelation that Handel had owned stock in companies involved the in slave trade. {…}
Reginald Mobley will headline a concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s baroque showcase on Jan. 11 and 12, 2025. The Jan. 11 showcase will take place at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and the Jan. 12, 2025 will take place at Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino. Mobley will perform Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater.” {…}