Sunday, June 2
The Enchanted Island
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
4pm - Episcopal Church of St. Mary, 43 Foreside Rd, Falmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
4pm - Episcopal Church of St. Mary, 43 Foreside Rd, Falmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
Tuesday, June 4
The Enchanted Island
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
7:30pm - Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St, Yarmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
7:30pm - Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St, Yarmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
June 9-16
Boston Early Music Festival
Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Luca Guglielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Stefan Temmingh, Vox Luminis, ACRONYM Ensemble, Sequentia, The Boston Camerata, Stile Antico, Ensemble Clement Janequin, Doulce Memoire, Solamente Naturali, and many more
Immerse yourself in North America’s premier celebration of Early Music, with eight days of award-winning opera, celebrated concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and more! Our 20th biennial Festival, featuring the theme of “Dreams & Madness,” brings the world of Early Music together in Boston for a week-long celebration. With a fully staged centerpiece opera, chamber opera 17 main-stage concerts, plus the world-famous Exhibition, lectures, masterclasses, and more, there's music from morning to midnight!
$10-$250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/
Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Luca Guglielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Stefan Temmingh, Vox Luminis, ACRONYM Ensemble, Sequentia, The Boston Camerata, Stile Antico, Ensemble Clement Janequin, Doulce Memoire, Solamente Naturali, and many more
Immerse yourself in North America’s premier celebration of Early Music, with eight days of award-winning opera, celebrated concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and more! Our 20th biennial Festival, featuring the theme of “Dreams & Madness,” brings the world of Early Music together in Boston for a week-long celebration. With a fully staged centerpiece opera, chamber opera 17 main-stage concerts, plus the world-famous Exhibition, lectures, masterclasses, and more, there's music from morning to midnight!
$10-$250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/
Sunday, June 9
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Tuesday, June 11
Pilgrims’ Progress: Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Barbara Allen Hill, soprano
Our BEMF Fringe concert follows the Plimoth colonists from their homes in turbulent 1590s England to religious refuge in the Netherlands on onward to a challenging, though fulfilling life on the shores of New England. The Plimoth settlers, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a highly diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music experiences as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World, and the Plimoth Colony heard not just solemn English psalms, but also catches, ballads, part-songs, and dance tunes, to which we add music of the English court and fictional “diary entries" read in original pronunciation. Music of Morley and Ravenscroft, selections from the Dutch ‘t Uitnement Kabinet, Sternhold & Hopkins’ Whole Booke of Psalmes, and John Playford’s English Dancing Master.
12pm - Hunnewell Chapel at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
seventimessalt.com
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Barbara Allen Hill, soprano
Our BEMF Fringe concert follows the Plimoth colonists from their homes in turbulent 1590s England to religious refuge in the Netherlands on onward to a challenging, though fulfilling life on the shores of New England. The Plimoth settlers, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a highly diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music experiences as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World, and the Plimoth Colony heard not just solemn English psalms, but also catches, ballads, part-songs, and dance tunes, to which we add music of the English court and fictional “diary entries" read in original pronunciation. Music of Morley and Ravenscroft, selections from the Dutch ‘t Uitnement Kabinet, Sternhold & Hopkins’ Whole Booke of Psalmes, and John Playford’s English Dancing Master.
12pm - Hunnewell Chapel at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
seventimessalt.com
Wednesday, June 12
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Thursday, June 13
Arie delle donne: Barbara Strozzi & Maria Teresa Agnesi
Daniela Tošić & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Laura Gulley & Guan-Ting Ku, violin; Jane Starkman, viola; Motomi Igarashi, bass;
Fernando Cardoso, keyboards; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
We are celebrating the 400th birthday of Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, with her dazzling secular and sacred arias, and anticipating the 300th birthday in 2020 of Milanese composer Maria Teresa Agnesi. Her virtuosic pastoral arias as well as arias of unrequited love are full of vitality, intense emotional mannerisms and expression, stemming from her skillful use of harmony and sometimes unusual use of the semitone. These 17th- and 18th-century Italian arias are delightfully memorable, dramatically moving, and elegantly virtuosic, all interspersed with striking instrumental music. La Donna Musicale is a non-profit research, education, and performance organization devoted to the discovery, preservation, and promotion of sacred and secular music by women composers. Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, the internationally acclaimed and award-winning ensemble ensemble uses period instruments and historically-informed performance practice to showcase the work of women composers from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, as well as contemporary works. Based in Boston, MA,
La Donna Musicale performs throughout the U.S. and internationally.
3pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
$5-$35
www.ladm.org
Daniela Tošić & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Laura Gulley & Guan-Ting Ku, violin; Jane Starkman, viola; Motomi Igarashi, bass;
Fernando Cardoso, keyboards; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
We are celebrating the 400th birthday of Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, with her dazzling secular and sacred arias, and anticipating the 300th birthday in 2020 of Milanese composer Maria Teresa Agnesi. Her virtuosic pastoral arias as well as arias of unrequited love are full of vitality, intense emotional mannerisms and expression, stemming from her skillful use of harmony and sometimes unusual use of the semitone. These 17th- and 18th-century Italian arias are delightfully memorable, dramatically moving, and elegantly virtuosic, all interspersed with striking instrumental music. La Donna Musicale is a non-profit research, education, and performance organization devoted to the discovery, preservation, and promotion of sacred and secular music by women composers. Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, the internationally acclaimed and award-winning ensemble ensemble uses period instruments and historically-informed performance practice to showcase the work of women composers from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, as well as contemporary works. Based in Boston, MA,
La Donna Musicale performs throughout the U.S. and internationally.
3pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
$5-$35
www.ladm.org
Friday, June 14
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Saturday, June 15
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25 - $105
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25 - $105
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Sunday, June 16
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Friday, June 21
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Saturday, June 22
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
3pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
3pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Thursday, June 27
Aston Magna: The Birth of the String Quartet
Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins; Jason Fisher, viola; Jacques Lee Wood, cello.
Featuring the music of Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn.
7pm - Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02453
$40 advance/$45 day of
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Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins; Jason Fisher, viola; Jacques Lee Wood, cello.
Featuring the music of Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn.
7pm - Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02453
$40 advance/$45 day of
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