2019 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Orlando generoso
Music by Agostino Steffani (1654–1728)
Libretto by Ortensio Mauro (1632/33–1725) | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
VERSAILLES: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Festival Concerts:
Dunedin Consort
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director
J. S. Bach: Matthäus Passion (BWV 244)
Zachary Wilder, tenor & Josep Maria Martí Duran, archlute & Baroque guitar
Mad Rush: Fever dreams of 17th-century Italy
Phoebe Carrai & Friends
Out of Italy
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director
with members of Quicksilver
J. S. Bach: The Arnstadt Connection
Luca Guglielmi, harpsichord
Bach & Les Goûts Réünis
ACRONYM
Dreams of a Wounded Musketeer
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby, director
Charms, Riddles and Elegies of the Medieval Northlands (8th–11th centuries)
The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, director
Songs & Mençonges: Medieval dreams of prophecy, love, and folly
Kristian Bezuidenhout & Friends
Piano and Wind Quintets of Mozart and Beethoven
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy, director
Emőke Barath & Teresa Wakim, soprano
Christian Immler, baritone
Caroline Copeland & Pierre-François Dollé, dancers & choreography
Dreams and Monsters: The theatrical orchestra of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Amanda Forsythe, Christian Immler & Friends
Delirium: Mad songs of English Composers
Vittorio Ghielmi, viol & Shalec Ad-El, harpsichord
Dreaming Jupiter: Virtuosity and expression in the French and English Baroque
Stile Antico
Queen of Muses: Elizabeth I as Monarch, Patron, and Lover
Ensemble Clément Janequin
The Banquet of Bacchus and Cupid: An orgy of decadence
Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin Dadre, Musical Director
Philippe Vallepin, staging
Hubert Hazebroucq, choreography
Jérôme Bourdin, costumes
Jérôme Allart, lighting
Royal Festivities at the French Court
Solamente Naturali
Miloš Valent, artistic leader
Flauto Ultimo – Vox Humana
Stefan Temmingh, recorder & Wiebke Weidanz, harpsichord
Follia – Criminals, Murderers, Borderliners
Organ Mini-Festival
David Yearsley, director
featuring Luca Guglielmi, David Yearsley & Kimberly Marshall
Transalpine: Adventures across Steffani’s Europe
Keyboard Mini-Festival
featuring Benjamin Alard & Byron Schenkman