1989 Festival

Opera in Concert:

Idomeneo

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Libretto by Abbé Giambattista Varesco (ca. 1736–1805) | Learn more »

Festival Concerts:

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Consort, Choir, and Players

Andrew Parrott, director
Claudio Monteverdi: Solemn Mass for the Feast of S. Maria della Salute in Thanksgiving for the Delivery of the City of Vencie from the Plague

Capella Agostino Steffani

Lajos Rovatkay, director
Agostino Steffani: Enrico Leone 

Hortus Musicus Tallinn

Andres Mustonen, director
Tractus Stellæ

Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby, directors
Planctus Mariæ

Capella Agostino Steffani

Lajos Rovatkay, director
Austrian Instrumental Chamber Music

Emily Van Evera, Eric Mentzel, Andrew Parrott, and Richard Wistreich, voice with 20 lutenists

Three, Four & Twenty Lutes

Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby, directors
A Vision of Mediæval English Music

Hortus Musicus Tallinn

Andres Mustonen, director
16th- and 17th-century German, Italian, and English Music

Steffano Innocenti, organ

German and Italian Masterpieces for Organ

The Boston Camerata

Joel Cohen, director
Requiem for a King 

Marion Verbruggen, recorder
Stanley Ritchie and Daniel Stepner, violin
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord
Wieland Kuijken and Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba

Les Goûts Réunis