1993 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
L’Orfeo
Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger (ca. 1573–1630) | Learn more »
Festival Concerts:
Colin Tilney, harpsichord & virginals
Music of William Byrd (1543–1623): In Europe is none like to our English man
Paul O’Dette, lute
Dowland and Byrd
BEMF Orchestra and Soloists
Paul O’Dette and Andrew Parrott, directors
The Phœnix and the Oracle: Musicke of sundrie natures from the time of Monteverdi and Byrd
The King’s Noyse
David Douglass, director
A Light Heart’s a Jewell: Ballads for voice and violin band
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director
Schola Cantorum of Boston
L. Frederick Jodry, director
Trav’ling Home: Musical migrations in England and America, 1775–1875
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord & virginals
Mad Italians and Englishmen
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet, directors
Effetti e Stravagante: Affect and effect in 17th-century instrumental music
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp & double harp
The Seventeenth-Century Harp
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
John Finney, director
James David Christie, organ
William Byrd (1543–1623): Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal—Anthems, Psalms, and Canticles