VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
"Arguably the most important and influential
Early Music event in the world." —BBC Radio 3
2025 Festival is NOW ON SALE!
We invite you to join us for our 23rd biennial Festival, June 8–15, 2025, as we bring the world of Early Music to downtown Boston with breathtaking Baroque opera, one-of-a-kind concerts, the world-famous Exhibition (now at The Colonnade Hotel), and so much more!
Stile Antico presents The Golden Renaissance
Enjoy a brilliant and vividly contrasted program featuring pieces from Stile Antico's award-winning discography! Don't miss this thrilling journey through some of the greatest music of the Renaissance.
Celebrate Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Les Arts Florissants!
Celebrated violin virtuoso Théotime Lenglois de Swarte joins with one of Early Music's definitive ensembles, Les Arts Florissants, for a blockbuster celebration of the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's Four Seasons!
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 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!
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, Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and Dance Director Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière.
