NORTH SHORE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

From the opening chorus’s joyful, exuberant trumpets and timpani, the Christmas story unfolds in dramatic narrative, moving arias, and stirring chorales. Dame Jane Glover brings ...

A “HOT” event for the fall as named by North Shore Magazine. The frighteningly fantastical musical arrives just in time for Halloween to make audiences ...

The creation of the world as told in the Book of Genesis springs to life through vivid musical pictures. Music Director Dame Jane Glover leads ...

The animal kingdom comes alive through charming works for orchestra under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Dogs bark in Vivaldi’s “Spring” Concerto ...

An intimate and deeply human account of Christ’s betrayal, suffering, and death, Bach’s  Passion According to St. John  sets scripture and poetry in emotionally moving, ...

Politics may have prompted Chicago’s nickname, but wind and water are at the heart of its identity. Dame Jane Glover leads a program impishly inspired ...

Viva Vivaldi! Baroque favorite Antonio Vivaldi takes center stage in a celebration of the 345th anniversary of his birth. The chorus brings “intensity and brilliance” ( ...

Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and international opera stars Susanna Phillips, Paula Murrihy, Manase Latu, and Michael Sumuel in ...

It’s one hot night as Benise, “The Prince of Spanish Guitar,” and his Emmy Award-winning production come to town as part of his global tour. ...

The unforgettable score of PIPPIN has shown multiple generations how to forge your own path in the world. Imaginatively presented through multiple revivals of a ...

The Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater returns to the North Shore with FLAMENCO PASSION concerts featuring the full company with guest artists and musicians from ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion speaks as urgently of compassion and hope today as it did 300 years ago—and when Music of the Baroque ...

“When one is tired of London,” said Samuel Johnson, “one is tired of life. Because there is in London all that life can afford.” English ...

Celebrated countertenor Reginald Mobley wields a voice that is “pure of tone, immaculate in his articulation” ( The Herald ) in a program of powerfully ...

Guest conductor Patrick Dupr Quigley explores the concept of hero in an energetic, whimsical program. The soloist is the hero of C. P. E. Bachs ...

The new season opens with Music of the Baroques first performance in over three decades of Handels final oratorio. Working furiously while his eyesight was ...

The musical brothers Haydn were no strangers to sibling rivalry. Joseph traveled in fancy musical circles in Esterhzy; Michael set up shop in Salzburg where ...

Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and four world renowned soloistsYulia Van Doren, Elizabeth DeShong, James Gilchrist, and Michael Sumuelin ...

Led by Nicholas Kraemer, Classical Heroines explores the tension between 18th-century operatic heroines traditional roles as wives, girlfriends, and lovers and the undeniable sheer power ...

Mozart scholar Dame Jane Glover joins forces with Chicago native and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet Anthony McGill for Mozarts gorgeous Clarinet Concerto. Mozarts haunting ...

Music of the Baroque, in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, and Concert Theatre ...

Music of the Baroque, in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, and Concert Theatre ...

The celebrated Music of the Baroque Chorus makes its first regular season appearance since December 2019 in Handels most iconic oratorio: Messiah. Nicholas Kraemer leads ...