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Opera

An illustrated portrait of Kevin Puts
Music
A composer for our times
Published Winter 2024
Peabody composition professor Kevin Puts has won most of music's major awards. What's his next act? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Michael Hersch
Opera
Michael Hersch turns to poetry as inspiration for latest work
Published Oct 8, 2024
New opera from the acclaimed Peabody composer, 'and we, each,' draws from the verse of poet Shane McCrae and his haunting explorations of the 'vast territories of human expression and experience'
Melissa Wimbish headshot
Performing Arts
Equity in opera
Published Fall 2021
IN Series opera company, led by a Peabody alum, launches the Cardwell Dawson Residency Program for singers of color / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Actors play Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Arts
Forging friendships across political divides
Published Nov 6, 2020
SNF Agora Institute, Peabody Institute, and Hopkins at Home host a free radio broadcast of the celebrated opera 'Scalia/Ginsburg' this weekend
Shot from the opera
Opera
Caught stealing
Published Summer 2019
Composer Joel Puckett's opera The Fix details the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Composite image of Frances Pollock and Tia Price
Peabody
Reality opera
Published Winter 2018
Composer Frances Pollock insists that opera needs to tell new stories, with new collaborators, for new audiences / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dancers surround The Celebrant at 'Mass' rehearsal
Music
Peabody performers help bring Bernstein's 'Mass' to life
Published Oct 25, 2018
About 540 singers, musicians, and dancers—including seven Peabody ensembles—will take part in massive production Friday at Baltimore's New Psalmist Baptist Church
Melissa Wimbish (left) and Britt Olsen-Ecker
This weekend
Peabody alums perform at Artscape
Published July 18, 2018
Outcalls frontwomen Britt Olsen-Ecker and Melissa Wimbish bring award-winning operatic vocals to electronic pop
Rosa Ponselle in a dramatic beaded costume
Opera
The diva's diva
Published Summer 2018
Peabody brings to life the story of one of opera's greatest sopranos / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Sam Mungo
OPERA
The fat lady's dead
Published Spring 2018
Samuel Mungo, Peabody Opera's new director, wants to introduce more acting, movement, and dance options to undergrad and graduate students' training / Johns Hopkins Magazine