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The 2025 Boston Early Music Festival is fast approaching! Secure your seats today for a weeklong celebration of Opera, Concerts, and so much more!
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"Arguably the most important and influential
Early Music event in the world." —BBC Radio 3

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Fully staged North American premiere of Keiser's Octavia

The virtuous Empress Octavia is betrayed by her increasingly erratic husband, Nero, putting all of Rome on the brink of rebellion in the Centerpiece Opera of the 2025 Festival.
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BEMF Chamber Opera Series presents: Telemann's Piminone and Ino

Telemann's Pimpinone & Ino comes to Boston, Great Barrington, and Caramoor!

Explore the depth of Telemann's genius with a fascinating pairing of stylish slapstick and scintillating drama: Saturday, June 14 in Boston, June 27 & 28 in Great Barrington, MA, and June 29 at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.
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2025 Festival: June 8–15 in Boston

Tickets and Subscriptions are NOW ON SALE for the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival, hailed as "arguably the most important and influential Early Music event in the world," by BBC Radio 3.
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Subscription packages are NOW ON SALE for BEMF's 25/26 Season coming this fall! Learn more »

Don't miss 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.

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Baroque Opera

“An absolute delight.” —The New York Times

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Celebrated Concerts

Our annual concerts feature some of the world's most exciting and engaging Early Music artists!

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2025 Festival

Tickets for our 23rd biennial Festival—June 8–15, 2025—are now on sale!
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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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“One of the nation’s foremost Early Music organizations.” —The New Yorker

Meet Our Artistic Leadership

BEMF's Artistic Leadership Team, Gilbert Blin, Robert Mealy, Melinda Sullivan, Paul O'Dette, and Stephen Stubbs

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, Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and Dance Director Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière.

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The Boston Early Music Festival is supported in part by:
National Endowment for the Arts
Mass Cultural Council
Constellation Charitable Foundation
ArtsBoston
Cambridge Community Foundation

"A constant delight of anticipation." —The Wall Street Journal