2005 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Boris Goudenow
Music and libretto by Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) | Learn more »
Festival Concerts:
Camerata Trajectina
The Perfect and Well-Equipped Ship: Dutch Shanties from the time of Czar Peter the Great
Jérôme Hantaï and Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba
Duets for Bass Viol from England and Northern Germany
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Soloists
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, directors
Nights at the Opera: Highlights from Beloved BEMF Opera Productions
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
From Salzburg to St. Petersburg: A Fortepiano Travel Diary
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
Benjamin Bagby, director
Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper
North German Organ Mini-Festival
featuring Edoardo Bellotti, Hans Davidsson, and William Porter
Fantasia in the Organ Music of the Renaissance and Baroque: An exploration of changing concepts of fantasia from Sweelinck to C. P. E. Bach
TALISMAN
Oleg Timofeyev and Anne Harley, directors
Stesha! Gypsy Primadonna of 1820s Moscow
Solamente Naturali
Miloš Valent, director
Waild and Krejzy: Secular Music in 1730s Slovakia
BEMF Orchestra & Soloists
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, directors
Five Concerti and a Magnificat
Ensemble européen William Byrd
Graham O’Reilly, director
Music in Scandinavia from the Düben Collection: Composers working in Denmark and Sweden in the 17th century
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director
Carmina Burana: Medieval songs from the Benediktbeuren manuscript (ca. 1230)
The King’s Noyse
David Douglass, director
Lust hab ich ghabt zur Musica: The High Art of German Renaissance Folk Music
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Scott Metcalfe, director
Music for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and for his daughter Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
Andrey Reshetin and Maria Kresintinskaya, violin
Peter Sykes, harpsichord
Music at the Russian Manor House in the Eighteenth Century
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, lute
Lautengalanterie
Tragicomedia
Dueling Cantatas: The Italian Cantata in the hands of Mattheson and Handel