VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
2025 is here and our June Festival is just 6 months away! Enjoy an excerpt from Steffani's Orlando generoso, the centerpiece of our 2019 Festival in Boston. Zachary Wilder (Brunello) performs the aria "Anco voi, donne mie care" before a ballet of spirits ends the opera's first act.
Tickets are on sale now for our 2025 Festival featuring Keiser's Octavia — June 8-15, 2025!
"Arguably the most important and influential
Early Music event in the world." —BBC Radio 3
Francesco Corti performs masterworks by Handel for harpsichord and organ
Our 24/25 Season resumes on February 8 with celebrated keyboard virtuoso Francesco Corti making his Concert Series début alongside the all-star BEMF Chamber Ensemble in an all-Handel program.
AGAVE make their BEMF début with countertenor Reginald Mobley
Explore the turbulent crossroads of rum and rebellion with celebrated string ensemble AGAVE and star countertenor Reginald Mobley. Don't miss this fascinating program from these GRAMMY-nominated collaborators.
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!
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 and Orchestra Director Robert Mealy.
