2025 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Octavia
Music by Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739)
Libretto by Barthold Feind (1678–1721) | Learn more »
Chamber Opera:
Telamnn’s Pimpinone and Ino
Festival Concerts:
ACRONYM
Amor Temporalia: Music of Bertali, Schmelzer, Valentini, and others
The Tallis Scholars & The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Peter Phillips, Director
Jubilate! Music of Lassus, Palestrina, Gombert, and Andrea Gabrieli
Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute
The Excellency of Wine: Songs by Dowland, Guédron, Moulinié, and Henry Lawes
Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Inspiring Genius – Precious Friendships: Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, Director
A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300
Pacific Musicworks with Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Stephen Stubbs, Director
Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Johnson, Dowland, William Lawes, Tomkins, and Purcell
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, Director
Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Music of Morales, Palestrina, and Allegri
Trio Mediæval with Kevin Devine, organetto & hurdy gurdy
Love abounds in everything: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Leonel Power
The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Songs without words: Music of Palestrina, Victoria, Grandi, Gabrieli, and Merulo
Enrico Gatti, violin, Marcello Gatti, flute & Friends
Flatteusement, Vivement & Tendrement: The power of love and affection in Paris
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière & Hubert Hazebroucq, dancers
Rivers of Splendor: Handel’s & Telemann’s Water Music
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin & Justin Taylor, harpsichord
The Power of Love: Music of Rameau, Couperin, Bach, Corelli, and others
Constantinople with Hana Blažíková, soprano
Kiya Tabassian, setar, voice & director
Bach & Khayyam
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Music of Carissimi and Förster
Concerto Romano with Luca Cervoni, tenor
Alessandro Quarta, Director
Arnalta’s Café: An Operatic Nanny Romp through 17th-Century Italy
ExtravaGamba!
Christel Thielmann, Director
From Byrd to Purcell and Beyond: Music for 2 to 16 viols
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble & Friends
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Emőke Baráth, Amanda Forsythe, Danielle Reutter-Harrah & Teresa Wakim, soprano; Aaron Sheehan & Jason McStoots, tenor | Christian Immler, bass-baritone
Starry, Starry Night: Music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Carissimi, and Steffani
Boreas Quartett Bremen with Kathryn Montoya, recorder
Caleb Mayo, narrator
Shakespeare in Love
Organ Mini-Festival
Part One | Kola Owolabi
Part Two | Jonathan Moyer
Part Three | Erica Johnson
Keyboard Mini-Festival
Clavichord | Yi-Heng Yang
Fortepiano | Federico Ercoli
Harpsichord | Justin Taylor