Performance Posts

This will be a period instrument performance. Since 1933, Duke Chapel has welcomed the Advent season with the sublime music of Messiah. George Frideric Handel’s masterwork weaves a musical and scriptural tapestry that tells the story of Christ’s life, from birth through death and resurrection. This year, we perform with period instruments and Baroque-era tuning, as […]

As Thanksgiving approaches, this concert gives thanks for music and the gifts of young musicians featured in this program. The soloists are from the ChorWorks Young Artists program, designed to train and provide solo opportunities in sacred music for collegiate and post-collegiate singers. The program includes pieces from J.S. Bach, Nun danket alle Gott (BWV 192) and Sei

From the North Carolina Opera website: FIDELIO is Beethoven’s only opera, based on a true story from the French Revolution about a woman who, disguised as a man, freed her husband from prison.  The original version of the opera received its premiere in 1805 in Vienna, but thanks to Napoleonic invasion and French occupation, it attracted

Forty voices of the Master Chorale will put a magical musical spell on you this Halloween. Join us for an evening of enchantment with a bubbling brew of selections from Bach, Brahms, and Britten in addition to pop and musical theatre tricks and treats. The concert will feature pianist Susan McClaskey Lohr along with bass

The Bach Cantata Series continues though this concert is without singers due to Covid concerns. In this opening concert of the semester, the Duke Bach Ensemble presents a program of favorite Baroque Concertos including “Summer” and “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in D, Op.6, no.4, and J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No.2. No

This will be my first performance in front of a live, in-person audience since everything shut down due to Covid in March, 2020! Secular arias from operas by Handel and VivaldiA free, live, outdoor concert featuring overtures and secular arias from operas by Vivaldi and Handel. Featuring soloists Molly Quinn, soprano, and Nathaniel Olson, baritone.