2017 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Le Carnaval de Venise
Music by Andre Campra (1660–1744)
Libretto by Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709) | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s
La serva padrona & Livietta e Tracollo
Festival Concerts:
Solamente Naturali
Miloš Valent, artistic leader
Musica Globus: 17th- and 18th-century folk and dance music from Middle Europe
The King’s Singers
Worlds Colliding: Renaissance Heavyweights
Ayreheart
Will You Walk the Woods So Wild: Renaissance Music from the British Isles
Béatrice Martin, harpsichord
La Serenissima: Music of Rameau, François Couperin, Boismortier, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi
Ensemble Correspondances
Sébastien Daucé, director
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Motets for the House of Guise
Dialogos
Katarina Livljanić, director & musical reconstruction
Swithun!: One saint, three Furies, and a thousand miracles around 1000
Concerto Romano
Alessandro Quarta, director
Bernardo Pasquini’s 1687 oratorio, Il San Vito
Micrologus
Patrizia Bovi, director
Carnivalesque: Sex, Lies, and … Musical Tales in 16th-century Venice
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba
Béatrice Martin, harpsichord
Music of Marais, Couperin, and Forqueray
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Laberinto en la guitarra
BEMF Orchestra & Soloists
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Stephen Stubbs & Paul O’Dette, Musical Directors
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
George Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione
Bruce Dickey & Friends
La Bella Minuta: Florid Songs for Cornetto Around 1600
Cinquecento
Canti Carnascialeschi: A Florentine Carnival
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Rachel Podger, violin
Mozart Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin
Nevermind
Music of François Couperin, Quentin, Telemann, and J. S. Bach
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey & Charles Toet, directors
Echoes of Saint Mark’s: Instrumental Music from the Musical Chapel of the Doge
Quicksilver & Friends
Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, directors
Teutscher Lustgarten: Music for Drinking, Loving, and Lamenting
Kathryn Montoya, recorder
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
Keyboard Mini-Festival
Curated by Darcy Kuronen, Pappalardo Curator of Musical Instruments, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
featuring Béatrice Martin, Ian Watson, and Benjamin Alard
Organ Mini-Festival
David Yearsley, director
featuring Benjamin Alard, Christa Rakich, and David Yearsley
Cosmopolitan Encounters