1985 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Teseo
Music by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Libretto by Nicola Haym (1678–1729) | Learn more »
Festival Concerts:
Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord
Music of George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti
The St. Thomas Choir of New York
Gerre Hancock, director
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion
Concerto Castello and Friends
A Schütz Celebration
Anner Bijlsma, violoncello
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
A Beethoven Recital
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director
Musica Getutscht: Music of the German Renaissance
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Trevor Pinnock, director
Overtures and Grand Concertos of Bach and Handel
Nigel Rogers, tenor
Paul O’Dette and Jakob Lindberg, lute, theorbo, tiorbino, and Baroque guitar
Music of Dowland, Kapsberger, d’India, Johnson, Negri, Castaldi, and Sances
Bernard Lagacé, organ
J. S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge