2009 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598-1659) | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
John Blow: Venus and Adonis and Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon
Festival Concerts:
Micrologus
Crawford Young, lute
Amors, Amors: Landscapes of Love, Lost and Found Quattrocento Music from the Italian Courts
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot, director
Ritratto dell’Amore: Music of Couperin, Marais, and Clérambault
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Pieter Wispelwey, violoncello
Beethoven in Berlin
Ensemble Zefiro
Alfredo Bernardini, director
The Winds of the Serenissima: Music of dall’Abaco, Vivaldi, Platti, Lotti, and Galuppi
Dialogos
Katarina Livljanič, director
Judith: A Biblical Story from Renaissance Croatia
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
Masters of the Keyboard: Domenico Scarlatti and Johann Sebastian Bach
BEMF Chamber Ensemble
A Grand Entertainment: “Orchestral” Delights
Stile Antico
Song of Songs: Sensuous Polyphony from the Courts of Renaissance Europe
Trio Hantaï
Bach and his Contemporaries
Flanders Recorder Quartet
The Amorous Flute
Paul Leenhouts, recorder
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord & organ
D’amours me plains: 16th- and 17th-century Embellished Chansons and Madrigals
Erin Headley and Anne-Marie Lasla, violas da gamba
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
Les Esprits Inséparables
Micrologus
Venite Amandi a la Lizadra Festa: Ballate, Madrigali, and Danze of the Italian Ars Nova
Tragicomedia and Friends
Stephen Stubbs, director
Here I am, ready for kisses: The Many Sides of Love in Monteverdi’s Madrigals
Keyboard Mini-Festival
Peter Sykes, director
featuring Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andrew Willis, Luca Guglielmi, William Porter, Peter Sykes, and David Breitman
Organ Mini-Festival
William Porter, director
featuring Joan Lippincott, Bálint Karosi, and William Porter