1981 Festival

Centerpiece Opera:

L’incoronazione di Poppea

Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598– 1659) | Learn more »

Festival Concerts:

The New York Cornet & Sacbut Ensemble
The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum

Jameson Marvin, director
A Venetian Festival

Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba
John Gibbons, harpsichord

Music of Bach, Abel, Forqueray, and Marais

Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord

A Fiftieth Anniversary: Music of F. Couperin, Rameau, and D. Scarlatti

The Greenwood Consort

In Praise of Folly

Yuko Hayashi, organ

with an introduction by Owen Jander and a discussion by Charles Fisk
Preview of the C. B. Fisk Organ: Works by Sweelinck, Scheidt, Tunder, Purcell, and Buxtehude