Anne Azéma, Director

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 8pm
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

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A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300

Celebrating their 70^th-anniversary season, The Boston Camerata remains one of the world’s most celebrated Early Music ensembles. Artistic Director Anne Azéma leads a production first performed to honor the 800^th anniversary of the Reims Cathedral. Songs and stories of powerful Kings, both good and bad, abound in the Middle Ages. While the crowd sings “May he reign forever,” the monarch’s power is limited: by his fallible judgement, his formidable adversaries, his love of power, and his own precarious mortality. These ancient songs of kingship and its snares in Latin, German, Galician, Old English, and Old French resonate strongly down the centuries, into our own, turbulent time.