MOB’s 2025-26 season to bring “Orfeo,” “Messiah” and a pair of conductor debuts
Music of the Baroque’s 2025-26 season will open September 14- 15 with Orfeo ed Euridice, the first time MOB has presented Gluck’s intimate early opera. Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Heidi Stober star as the tragic couple with Hannah de Priest as Amor in a concert performance led by music director Dame Jane Glover. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos follow October 12-13 with Nicholas Kraemer leading five of the six concertos (sans No. 5).
The 55th season continues with Glover leading Handel’s not unknown Messiah November 30 and December 1, a work she will conduct with the New York Philharmonic (and the MOB Chorus) the following week. Chicago soloists are soprano Yulia Van Doren, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Miles Mykkanen and baritone Will Liverman. For the first time, Kraemer will lead the Holiday Brass and Choral concerts Dec. 18-21.
Glover leads a “Fathers and Sons” program, January 24-25. Guest flutist Demarre McGill performs concertos by Mozart and C.P.E. Bach on a program with Leopold Mozart’s Symphony in F major and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 4.
Two guest conductors will make MOB debuts in the spring of 2026. Richard Egarr directs a program March 1-2 with soprano Rowan Pierce in selections from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Handel’s motet Silete venti and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. And violinist-conductor Fabio Biondi will conduct and perform in a program of Italian violin and string concertos April 12-13.
The season will close with a choral program May 17-18. MOB chorus director Andrew Megill leads a wide-ranging program that includes Bach’s Komm, Jesu, komm and Jesu, meine Freude, three Monteverdi madrigals and Tallis’s Spem in alium.
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