Video Spotlight
Soprano Amanda Forsythe performs "Ah, Serpina" from Pergolesi La Serva Padrona with the BEMF Chamber Opera Series in November 2014. In 2023, BEMF returned to the recording studio for our latest CD release featuring Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona & Livietta e Tracollo—now available on the CPO label!
"Arguably the most important and influential
Early Music event in the world." —BBC Radio 3
Subscription Packages are now on sale for our 2024/25 Season!
Secure your seats now for our 35th Season of concerts and opera in Greater Boston featuring beloved returns and exciting débuts!
Virtual Concerts continue for our 2024/25 Season
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!
BEMF Chamber Opera Series presents Telemann's Don Quichotte
Cervantes’s epic story 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!
In response to the coronavirus/COVID-19, BEMF has temporarily closed our administrative office. BEMF administrative staff are working remotely for the immediate future. If you have any Box Office questions, please email Corey King, Box Office and Patron Services Manager at corey@bemf.org. For general questions, please email bemf@bemf.org.
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.
LEARN MORE!“One of the nation’s foremost Early Music organizations.” —The New Yorker
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. Rounding out the leadership are Orchestra Director Robert Mealy and Dance Director Melinda Sullivan.
