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CURRENT PRESS RELEASES
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April 13, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival presents the final event of its 2020-2021 Series – a FREE Virtual Performance featuring Ensemble Correspondances and Mezzo-Soprano Lucile Richardot in a program of 17th-Century English Song
April 5, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival announces the full schedule for the 2021 Virtual Festival, Music of Solace & Joy: June 6–13, 2021
February 10, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival presents Stile Antico in a program of works by Josquin
January 15, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival presents Quicksilver in a program of instrumental music from across 17th-Century Europe
January 15, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival announces three more streaming broadcasts for the 2020–2021 Season
January 11, 2021
Boston Early Music Festival announces plans for an all-virtual 2021 Festival
December 20, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival releases NEW world-premiere Baroque Opera CD: Christoph Graupner's Antiochus und Stratonica
November 20, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival presents The Tallis Scholars in a program of music for the Virgin Mary, free of charge on YouTube
November 18, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival presents “Looking Back at Orpheus” with streaming broadcasts of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée on Thanksgiving weekend
October 7, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival announces the centerpiece of the June 2021 Festival—a double bill of comic operas by Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Adolph Hasse
September 29, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival presents Nevermind in a program of music by Bach, Telemann, and Marais, free of charge on YouTube
September 21, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival announces four streaming broadcasts for a virtual fall season
September 8, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival presents “Looking Back at Orpheus” with streaming broadcasts of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée on Thanksgiving weekend
August 24, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival releases NEW Baroque Opera CD, featuring a chamber opera and other court entertainments from Versailles, by Michel-Richard de Lalande
May 11, 2020
Boston Early Music Festival suspends subscription sales for the 2020/21 Season
December 20, 2019
Boston Early Music Festival releases TENTH Baroque Opera CD, Handel’s Almira
November 22, 2019
Boston Early Music Festival receives its sixth nomination for Best Opera Recording for the 2020 GRAMMY Awards
July 25, 2019
Boston Early Music Festival releases NINTH Baroque Opera CD, featuring two chamber operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
October 22, 2018
Boston Early Music Festival and Longy School of Music launch a new partnership
June 4, 2018
Boston Early Music Festival announces the establishment of the BEMF Instrument Collection following the acquisition of four harpsichords
ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASES
Older Press Releases are available to download as PDFs.
BEMF RECORDINGS
May 18, 2018 | Boston Early Music Festival releases a new recording of Johann Sebastiani’s Matthäus Passion (Download PDF)
December 7, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival nominated for the fifth time as Best Opera Recording for the 2016 GRAMMY Awards (Download PDF)
December 1, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival wins a Diapason d'Or de l'Année 2015 for Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe (Download PDF)
November 24, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival releases EIGHTH Baroque Opera CD, Handel’s Acis and Galatea (Download PDF)
October 16, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival to receive two 2015 ECHO Klassik Awards in gala ceremony this Sunday (Download PDF)
August 24, 2015 | Two Boston Early Music Festival recordings win 2015 ECHO Klassik Awards (Download PDF)
February 8, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival wins its first GRAMMY® Award for Best Opera Recording for Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs (Download PDF)
January 16, 2015 | Boston Early Music Festival releases SEVENTH Baroque Opera CD, the world premiere studio recording of Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe (Download PDF)