2025 Festival | June 8–15, 2025
Join us for our 23rd biennial Festival—Love & Power!
Since our inaugural Festival in 1981, the Boston Early Music Festival has been North America’s premier celebration of Early Music, offering a spectacular week full of opera, concerts, and more. 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!
Tickets will go on sale on Monday, December 2, 2024!
FESTIVAL OPERAS
The Centerpiece Opera of the 2025 Festival will be Octavia by Reinhard Keiser, June 8–15, 2025 at Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, MA. This fully staged production will feature Emőke Baráth as Octavia, Douglas Williams as Nero, and Christian Immler as Seneca. LEARN MORE »
The Chamber Opera at the 2025 Festival will be a double bill featuring Telemann's Pimpinone and Ino, an encore presentation of the BEMF Chamber Opera Series' 2021 production. LEARN MORE »
FESTIVAL CONCERTS
18 Festival Concerts to Enjoy! The 2025 Festival will feature lively and engaging concerts Early Music's most exciting artists and ensembles—including The Tallis Scholars, Trio Medieval, Boston Camerata, Vox Luminis, ACRONYM, our own BEMF Orchestra, and so much more. Plus the Organ and Keyboard Mini-Festivals and dozens of Fringe Concerts! LEARN MORE »
EXHIBITION AND MORE!
The World-Famous Exhibition: The heart of the Festival, our Exhibition is the largest Early Music trade show in North America, with makers of period instruments, music publishers, dealers in rare books, prints, and manuscripts, representatives from the finest conservatories, and more. June 11-14, 2025. LEARN MORE »
Concurrent Events: Festival Week in Boston features a vast array of Concurrent Events, including Family Day, lectures, Dance Workshops, Performances Masterclasses, and more.