2013 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Almira
Music by Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
Libretto by Luigi Orlandi, after Ovid’s Metamorphoses | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs
Festival Concerts:
BEMF Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation Quartet
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Amandine Beyer, violin
Miloš Valent, viola
Eric Hoeprich, Baroque clarinet
Music of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, on Mozart’s Original Instruments
Symphonie des Dragons
Gonzalo X. Ruiz, director
Au Goût du Soldat: Refining Regimental Music in France and Germany
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Paul O’Dette, lute
Time Stands Still: Music of John Dowland
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
Music by Couperin, Froberger, Handel, and Bach
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord
Master and Student
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, director
Handel: From England to Italy
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
English eccentrics, French fanatics: Cuthbert Hely, the Gaultiers, and Robert Johnson
The Newberry Consort
David Douglass & Ellen Hargis, directors
With Exsultemus, Period Vocal Ensemble
Rosa das Rosas: Cantigas de Santa Maria
BEMF Orchestra
Robert Mealy, director
The Birth of the Orchestra: The extravagant and sonorous sounds of Paris and Rome, c.1700
Atalante
Erin Headley, director
In Carmine Dolore: Ancient Classical and Biblical Laments of 17th-century Rome
Gli Incogniti
Amandine Beyer, director
Viennoiseries: Austrian Music in the Stylus Phantasticus from the 17th-century
The Hilliard Ensemble
A Hilliard Songbook
Siobhán Armstrong, early Irish harp
Aine Ni Dhroighneain, voice
My Small Dark Rose: Music of Early Ireland
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall, director
Istanbul: Dimitrie Cantemir’s The Book of the Science of Music and the Ottoman, Sephardic & Armenian traditions
Tragicomedia and Friends
Stephen Stubbs, director
Singen, Spielen, Tanzen, Trinken
The Royal Wind Music
Paul Leenhouts, director
Angeli, Zingare e Pastori: Symbols & Allegories in Italian Renaissance Music
Keyboard Mini-Festival
Peter Sykes, director
featuring Peter Sykes, Fabio Bonizzoni, Anthony Romaniuk, Yi-Heng Yang, and Ulrika Davidsson
The Youthful Keyboard: Inspiration and Instruction
Organ Mini-Festival
William Porter, director
featuring William Porter, Lorenzo Ghielmi, and John Scott
The Genius of Johann Sebastian Bach