2025 Festival | June 8–15, 2025
Festival Schedule
Welcome to the June 2025 Boston Early Music Festival, North America’s premier celebration of Early Music.
Subscription packages and individual tickets go on sale Monday, December 2!
Announcements for Concurrent Events such as Masterclasses, Dance Workshops, Lectures, and more will come in early 2025.
QUICK LINKS
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2025
2pm | PRE-OPERA TALK
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
3:10pm | OPENING FANFARE | Keiser's Octavia
Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
3:30pm | CENTERPIECE OPERA | Keiser's Octavia
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
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MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2025
5pm | CONCERT
ACRONYM
Amor Temporalia: Music of Bertali, Schmelzer, Valentini, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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8pm | CONCERT
The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips, Director
& The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Jubilate! Music of Lassus, Palestrina, Gombert, and Andrea Gabrieli
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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10:30pm | CONCERT
Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute
The Excellency of Wine: Songs of Love, Laughter, and Drinking by Dowland, Guédron, Moulinié, and Henry Lawes
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2025
5pm | CONCERT
Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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8pm | CONCERT
The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, Director
A Gallery of Kings: On the Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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10:30pm | CONCERT
Pacific Musicworks | Stephen Stubbs, Director
with Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Johnson, Dowland, William Lawes, Tomkins, and Purcell
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025
10am–5pm | Exhibition
NEW VENUE FOR 2025: The Colonnade Hotel
(The Huntington Ballroom & Foyer)
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5pm | CONCERT
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, Director
Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Music of Morales, Palestrina, and Allegri
Emmanuel Church
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5:30pm | PRE-OPERA TALK
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
6:40pm | OPENING FANFARE | Keiser's Octavia
Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
7pm | CENTERPIECE OPERA | Keiser's Octavia
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
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8pm | CONCERT
Trio Medieval with Catalina Vicens, organetto
Caritas abundant in omnia / Love abounds in everything: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Leonel Power
Emmanuel Church
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10:30pm | CONCERT
The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Songs without words: Music of Palestrina, Victoria, Grandi, Gabrieli, and Merulo
Emmanuel Church
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
9am | ORGAN MINI-FESTIVAL
Part One | Kola Owolabi
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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10am–5pm | Exhibition
NEW VENUE FOR 2025: The Colonnade Hotel
(The Huntington Ballroom & Foyer)
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11:30am | ORGAN MINI-FESTIVAL
Part Two | Catalina Vicens, organetto
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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2pm | ORGAN MINI-FESTIVAL
Part Three | Erica Johnson
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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5pm | CONCERT
Enrico Gatti, violin, Marcello Gatti, flute & Friends
Telemann’s Paris Quartets
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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8pm | CONCERT
Boston Early Music festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Caroline Copeland & Hubert Hazebroucq, dancers
Rivers of Splendor: Handel’s & Telemann’s Water Music
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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10:30pm | CONCERT
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
& Justin Taylor, harpsichord
The Power of Love: Music of Rameau, Couperin, Bach, Corelli, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
9am | KEYBOARD MINI-FESTIVAL
Clavichord | Yi-Heng Yang
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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10am–5pm | Exhibition
NEW VENUE FOR 2025: The Colonnade Hotel
(The Huntington Ballroom & Foyer)
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11:30am | KEYBOARD MINI-FESTIVAL
Fortepiano | Federico Ercoli
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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2pm | KEYBOARD MINI-FESTIVAL
Harpsichord | Justin Taylor
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
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5pm | CONCERT
Constantinople | Kiya Tabassian, setar, voice & director
with Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bach & Khayyam
Emmanuel Church
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5:30pm | PRE-OPERA TALK
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
6:40pm | OPENING FANFARE | Keiser's Octavia
Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
7pm | CENTERPIECE OPERA | Keiser's Octavia
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
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8pm | CONCERT
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Music of Rossi and Carissimi
Emmanuel Church
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10:30pm | CONCERT
Concerto Romano
Alessandro Quarta, Director
Luca Cervoni, tenor
An Operatic Nanny Romp through 17th-Century Italy
Emmanuel Church
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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025
10am–5pm | Exhibition
NEW VENUE FOR 2025: The Colonnade Hotel
(The Huntington Ballroom & Foyer)
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5pm | CONCERT
ExtravaGamba!
Christel Thielmann, Director
A Feast of Favorite Consorts for 2 to 16 viols
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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8pm | CHAMBER OPERA
Telemann's Pimpinone & Ino
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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10:30pm | CONCERT
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
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025
12:30pm | CONCERT
Boreas Quartett Bremen
Caleb Mayo, narrator
Kathryn Montoya, recorder
Shakespeare in Love
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
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2pm | PRE-OPERA TALK
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
3:10pm | OPENING FANFARE | Keiser's Octavia
Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
7pm | CENTERPIECE OPERA | Keiser's Octavia
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
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All venues are located in Boston, Massachusetts, unless otherwise stated. Programs, artists, dates, and venues subject to change.