2011 FESTIVAL
Operatic Centerpiece
Music by Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
Libretto by Luigi Orlandi, after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Festival Concerts
BEMF Chamber Opera Series: Handel's Acis and Galatea
Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Leader
Melinda Sullivan, Assistant to the Stage Director
Aaron Sheehan, Acis
Teresa Wakim, Galatea
Jason McStoots, Damon
Douglas Williams, Polyphemus
Michael Kelley, Coridon
Les Voix Baroques
Stephen Stubbs, director
Yulia Van Doren & Catherine Webster, soprano; Matthew White, countertenor; Colin Balzer & Sumner Thompson, tenor; Douglas Williams, bass-baritone; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Miloš Valent, Peter Spissky & Dagmar Valentová, violin; Erin Headley, viola da gamba; Jörg Jacobi, harpsichord
CANTICUM CANTICORUM — THE SONG OF SONGS
The King's Singers
David Hurley & Timothy Wayne-Wright, countertenor; Paul Phoenix, tenor; Philip Lawson & Christopher Gabbitas, baritone; Jonathan Howard, bass
TRIUMPHS — RENAISSANCE CONQUESTS IN LOVE AND WAR
Luca Guglielmi, harpsichord
OVID’S HARPSICHORD: CEMBALO METAMORPHOSIS
Ensemble Lucidarium
Avery Gosfield & Francis Biggi, directors
Gloria Moretti & Marie Pierre Duceau, voice; Avery Gosfield, recorder, pipe & tabor; Marco Ferrari, recorder & double flute; Francis Biggi, lute & cetra; Bettina Ruchti, vielle & lyra da braccio; Massimiliano Dragoni, percussion & hammer dulcimer
NINFALE — OVID, POETRY, AND MUSIC IN ITALY AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, director
Anne Azéma, Fortune; Michael Collver, Fauvel; Joel Cohen, narrator; Michael Barrett, Vain Glory; Shira Kammen, vielle & harp; Steven Lundahl, sackbut, recorder & harp
THE MORPHING BEAST: LE ROMAN DE FAUVEL — A MEDIEVAL FABLE IN POETRY AND MUSIC
Quicksilver
Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, directors
Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violin; David Morris, violoncello;
Greg Ingles, sackbut; Avi Stein, harpsichord & organ; Charles Weaver, theorbo
STILE MODERNO: THE NEW SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ITALY
Jordi Savall, treble viols
with guest artists Paul O’Dette, lute & Shane Shanahan, percussion
THE CELTIC VIOL — AN HOMAGE TO IRISH AND SCOTTISH MUSICAL TRADITIONS
BEMF Orchestra
Robert Mealy, director
with guest artist Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
THE ORCHESTRA AT PLAY: FESTIVE CONCERTOS, SUITES, AND SINFONIAS BY BACH, HANDEL, CORELLI, AND VIVALDI
Paul O'Dette, lute
DIVINAMENTE SUONAVA: THE DIVINE LUTE OF MARCO DALL’AQUILA
Trio Settecento
with guest artist Robert Mealy, violin
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; John Mark Rozendaal, violoncello;
David Schrader, harpsichord
THE ALCHEMICAL VIOLIN: WORKS BY MUFFAT, VERACINI, J. S. BACH, C. P. E. BACH, AND PISENDE
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, director
Janet Coxwell, Amy Haworth, Alice Gribbin & Deborah Roberts, soprano; Ruth Massey &Tim Travers-Brown, alto; Christopher Watson & Alastair Putt, tenor; Stephen Charlesworth & Julian Walker, bass
THE GENIUS OF TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA (1548–1611)
Solamente Naturali
Miloš Valent, director
Miloš Valent & Peter Spissky, violin; Dagmar Valentová, viola; Phoebe Carrai, violoncello; Stephen Stubbs, Baroque guitar & theorbo; Avi Stein, harpsichord
BAROQUE FIDDLERS FROM MORAVIA, SLOVAKIA, ENGLAND, AND SCOTLAND
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
with members of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Petra Müllejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, viola; Kristin von der Goltz, violoncello
MOZART AT 29: PIANO QUARTETS, K. 478 AND K. 493
Tragicomedia and Friends
Stephen Stubbs, director, chitarrone & Baroque guitar; Erin Headley, viola da gamba; Paul O’Dette, theorbo & Baroque guitar; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord; Ellen Hargis & Mireille Asselin, soprano; Matthew White, countertenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Douglas Williams, bass-baritone
FIORATURA: THE VOCAL CHAMBER DUETS OF STEFFANI AND HANDEL
Mezzaluna
with guest artist Paul O’Dette, lute
THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF OTTAVIANO PETRUCCI, VENICE, 1501–1508
Keyboard Mini-Festival
directed by Peter Sykes
featuring Peter Sykes, Luca Guglielmi, Christoph Hammer, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Michael Tsalka & Miklós Mikael Spányi
Organ Mini-Festival
directed by William Porter
featuring James David Christie, Luca Guglielmi, and William Porter
