VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Join BEMF as we open our 35th annual concert series with Gramophone Award–winning Vox Luminis—on Saturday, October 26 at NEC's Jordan Hall in Boston. Director Lionel Meunier lead us on a journey inspired by Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, offering us a chance to experience a very different-sounding yet deeply emotional German Baroque Requiem.
"Arguably the most important and influential
Early Music event in the world." —BBC Radio 3
Vox Luminis return to Boston!
Gramophone Award-winners Vox Luminis open BEMF's 2024/25 Season with a program of early German Baroque vocal repertoire with texts used in Brahms' monumental Ein Deutsches Requiem.
A Duel of Bows with the Venice Baroque Orchestra
Thrill to music of audacious virtuality from the four musketeers of the Venetian Baroque—Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini, and Locatelli—as the Venice Baroque Orechestra and violinist Chouchane Siranossian imagine a "battle of the bows" among these celebrated masters.
Thanksgiving weekend in Boston: Telemann's Don Quichotte
Cervantes’s wayward hero is brought to life through the irresistible music of Georg Philipp Telemann in an all-new production from the GRAMMY-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series!
BEMF has been thrilled to share our concerts virtually with fans around the world and are proud to continue offering our entire 2024/25 Season virtually. Subscribe to all 9 concerts today and enjoy the music you love wherever you are! Learn more about Virtual Tickets »
Save the dates for our next Festival—June 8–15, 2025
Who We Are
Since 1981, the Boston Early Music Festival has established itself as an international leader in the field of Early Music. BEMF presents a wealth of diverse programs and activities, including superb productions of Baroque opera, award-winning recordings, an annual concert season that brings the field’s brightest stars to Boston and New York City, and North America’s leading festival for Early Music.
Celebrated Concerts
Our annual concerts feature some of the world's most exciting and engaging Early Music artists!
2025 Festival
Award-Winning Recordings
In 2004, BEMF initiated a series of recordings to preserve its groundbreaking Baroque opera creations and attempt to fill the gaps in the current discography of Western opera. The series features one GRAMMY Award-winning and five GRAMMY-nominated recordings.
NEW CD!
Enjoy a 2 CD-set of Neopolitan comic opera with Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Livietta e Tracollo.
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Meet Our Artistic Leadership
BEMF Opera productions reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe. Leading the Artistic Team are GRAMMY-winning Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs alongside Opera Director Gilbert Blin and Orchestra Director Robert Mealy.
