Giovanni Battista Pergolesi News

Experience the magic of spring with Boston Ballet's latest performance, featuring works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, and a world premiere by Ken Ossola.

Como parte de las celebraciones por la Semana Santa, el Coro Nacional del Perú, en compañía de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional y el Coro Nacional de Niños presentan “Piedad”, un programa dirigido para toda la familia que incluye las obras ‘Stabat Mater’ de Pergolessi y el ‘Requiem’ de Fauré, de quien se conmemora el centenario de su fallecimiento.

Join the New Jersey Youth Chorus for their Winter Concert on January 21. Enjoy a variety of beautiful and artistic repertoire performed by nearly 200 talented choristers. Tickets available at NJYC.org.

TENET Vocal Artists announces their 2024 Winter/Spring Season featuring performances of 'Forces of Nature,' 'Stabat Mater,' 'Power of Mythology,' and J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor.

Salve mater fons amoris, a concert of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Scarlatti’s Salve Regina, and a rare Isabella Leonarda Trio will be performed in Manhattan - A Libero Canto Project. Learn more about the concerts here!

The season opener tells powerful stories of tragedy, hope and human connection. The program’s central work, Sounds of the Sun, is a world premiere by Jennifer Archibald, which celebrates the life of Florence Waren, a Jewish dancer who lived in Paris and worked with the French Resistance during World War II. 

The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center’s 2022/23 Studio Series will present …she was becoming untethered., a world premiere from choreographer Annie Rigney, who was first introduced to 92NY as a finalist in the 2021  Future Dance Festival.

Acclaimed violin virtuoso Randall Goosby is set to solo in the New Jersey Symphony's upcoming performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, June 1—4, led by Music Director Xian Zhang. The program also features the world premiere of Chen Yi's Landscape Impression and Stravinsky's Suite from Pulcinella.

Boston Ballet has announced programming for the 2023–2024 season, which celebrates the evolution of the living artform of ballet.

Adapted from a 13th-century hymn, Stabat Mater is Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s 1736 operatic testament to the lamentation of Mary following Jesus’s crucifixion.

Edmonton Opera’s three performances, March 30, 31 and April 1, 2023, of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Jubilee Auditorium sold out during the first week of rehearsals.

The Dryden Ensemble presents “Pergolesi and Bach” on Saturday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church Solebury, 6587 Upper York Road, Solebury, PA and on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m. at Seminary Chapel, located on the campus of the Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has announced the company’s exciting 2023-2024 season lineup, featuring three full-length story ballets and two mixed repertory programs.

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:30pm, Opera Lafayette will present Pergolesi!, part of their 2022/23 season dedicated to The Era of Madame de Pompadour.

Led by Artistic and Executive Director Kent Jue, Magnificent Wonders will perform 1pm PST Saturday, December 3 2022 at First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto and 4pm PST Sunday, December 11, 2022 at Old First Church in San Francisco.

The soprano Vasiliki Constantinou, the mezzo soprano Anoki von Arx, and the pianist Zara Bakhoudarian are to present a concert dedicated to the Stabat Mater sequence, a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary. The piece, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion, will now take place at Technopolis 20, on Wednesday, April 27, at 7pm. The title comes from its first line, Stabat Mater dolorosa, which means 'the sorrowful mother was standing' and has been set to music by many Western composers, including Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, whose work is going to be presented. 

We are entering the Holy Week of Easter with a concert dedicated to the Stabat Mater sequence, a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion.

The production is conducted by Luis Otavio Santos, who commands the Orquestra do Theatro Sao Pedro, and stage direction by Mauro Wrona. The show will also be streamed free of charge on the internet.

For the first time since 2010, Chatham Baroque will present Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's (1710-1736) immortal setting of the Stabat Mater – a Lenten hymn to Mary, mother of Jesus – along with music by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680).

Theatro Sao Pedro announces its 2022 season. The lyrical series will include eleven titles: La Serva Padrona; Livietta and Tracollo; The Capulets and the Montechios, by Bellini; West Side Story; Lecture on Waterbirds; Threepenny Opera, by Weill; Ariadne in Naxos, by Strauss; Viva La Mamma, by Donizetti and El Barberillo de Lavapies, among others.