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01/01/2026

Here's to a 2026 filled with beautiful music! 🥂🎶

12/24/2025

Hats off to Seraphic Fire and conductor Patrick Dupre Quigley, whose performance of Bach's Six Motets has earned number two spot in the South Florida Classical Review's list of Top Ten performances of 2010!

Britten’s magnum opus is a sprawling combination of vehement agony and repose that alternates the World War I poems of Wilfred Owen with the traditional mass for the dead. A prime project for New World artistic director Stéphane Denève, the conductor offered an inspired reading in March that cap...

12/23/2025

Congratulations to tenor Richard Pittsinger, who was named "Best Breakout Performance" by The Boston Globe for his roles in Ariodante (Boston Baroque), and Octavia and Stellidaura’s Revenge (Boston Early Music Festival).

🎭 "On their own, this recent Juilliard graduate’s performances in town this year might not have been star-making. But to each of those, he brought an elegant mode of expression and compelling clarity, and three times makes it a pattern. Things look very promising for this young singer, whose inclination toward the music of Handel might help land him a few more gigs in this Baroque-loving town."

Singers who transformed roles, young players who smited hearts, a secret trio, along with a little well-timed thunder made extraordinary musical experiences in 2025.

12/15/2025

Such wonderful news! Featuring our own Julian Perkins, conductor.

12/09/2025

Sing along with Messiah and our own Thomas Cooley, Tenor tonight at Indiana University! 🎶🎤

Featuring new Jacobs faculty members Paulina Villarreal, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Cooley, tenor; Kelly Markgraf, bass-baritone | Part I of Handel’s ...

12/09/2025

Bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca will perform “Thus Saith the Lord” from Handel’s Messiah with Trinity Church in New York City on December 11 and 12.

12/05/2025

Fine praise for countertenor Nicholas Burns!

🎭 "Nicholas Burns sang against the lower strings with a lush tone and lovely embellishments...The interplay between the woodwinds and Burns as a soloist was delightful."

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Psalm 110 inspired both Antonio Lotti and George Frideric Handel, both works contrasted in this concert by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir.

12/04/2025

Our first of many glowing reviews for our performer's dazzling audiences with Handel's Messiah this season!

🎭 "Yulia Van Doren was a finely comforting presence in each of her airs, her soprano radiant and agile in a brisk “Rejoice greatly,” deeply affecting in “I know that my redeemer liveth,” the latter dressed in tasteful embellishments."

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At a time of year when performances of Messiah tend to pile up like snowdrifts, Chicago-area audiences know they can depend on Music of the Baroque to deliver the Handelian goods with a professional polish that makes all the difference.