2011 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Niobe, Regina di Tebe
Music by Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
Libretto by Luigi Orlandi, after Ovid’s Metamorphoses | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea
Festival Concerts:
Les Voix Baroques
Stephen Stubbs, director
Canticum Canticorum — The Song of Songs
The King’s Singers
Triumphs — Renaissance Conquests in Love and War
Luca Guglielmi, harpsichord
Ovid’s Harpsichord: Cembalo Metamorphosis
Ensemble Lucidarium
Avery Gosfield & Francis Biggi, directors
Ninfale — Ovid, Poetry, and Music in Italy at the end of the Middle Ages
The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, director
The Morphing Beast: Le Roman de Fauvel — A Medieval Fable in Poetry and Music
Quicksilver
Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, directors
Stile Moderno: The New Science of Music in Italy
Jordi Savall, treble viols
with Paul O’Dette, lute & Shane Shanahan, percussion
The Celtic Viol — An Homage to Irish and Scottish Musical Traditions
BEMF Orchestra
Robert Mealy, director
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
The Orchestra at Play: Festive Concertos, Suites, and Sinfonias by Bach, Handel, Corelli, and Vivaldi
Paul O’Dette, lute
Divinamente Suonava: The Divine Lute of Marco Dall’aquila
Trio Settecento
with Robert Mealy, violin
The Alchemical Violin: Works by Muffat, Veracini, J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and Pisende
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, director
The Genius of Tomás Luis de Victoria(1548–1611)
Solamente Naturali
Miloš Valent, director
Baroque Fiddlers from Moravia, Slovakia, England, and Scotland
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Mozart at 29: Piano Quartets, K. 478 and K. 493
Tragicomedia and Friends
Stephen Stubbs, director
Fioratura: The Vocal Chamber Duets of Steffani and Handel
Mezzaluna
Paul O’Dette, lute
The Instrumental Music of Ottaviano Petrucci, Venice, 1501–1508
Keyboard Mini-Festival
Peter Sykes, director
featuring Peter Sykes, Luca Guglielmi, Christoph Hammer, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Michael Tsalka & Miklós Mikael Spányi
Organ Mini-Festival
William Porter, director
featuring James David Christie, Luca Guglielmi, and William Porter