The Boston Camerata

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Dido and Aeneas” — Plenty of Contemporary Razzmatazz

March 20, 2023
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What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.

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Opera Review: Purcell’s “Dido” — Re-made for the Lives We are Living Now

November 2, 2020
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Coming soon to your computer or cellphone: The Boston Camerata launches a bold staged performance of Purcell’s pathbreaking opera, but in a way that keeps its cast and audience safe.

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Classical Music Preview: “Help the Children” Concert — An Eclectic Vocal Program

March 7, 2019
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“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”

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Concert Review: “The Play of Daniel” — The Boston Camerata’s Production is One for the Ages

November 26, 2014
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The Boston Camerata’s imaginative staging of The Play of Daniel generated plenty of “serious fun.”

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Classical Music Review: The Boston Camerata Tackles the Snarly Complexity of the “Messe de Notre Dame”

April 1, 2013
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The Boston Camerata proffers a constant sense of discovery and rediscovery, of unusually lively musicianship and scholarship, and a sprightly sense of the humanity – and the snarly complexity – behind the music it performs.

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Classical Music Review: The Boston Camerata’s Enthralling Hispanic Christmas

December 24, 2012
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Spirits were lifted; those in need of holiday cheer got a massive dose of it. Bravo to The Boston Camerata and to Les Fleurs des Caraïbes.

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Classical Music Sampler: February 2012

February 1, 2012
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February feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival, Part Two, Exhibition and The Boston Camerata

June 21, 2011
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BEMF is, quite simply, paradise for those who love early music, and they seem to be a different audience than those who show up for, say, the Boston Symphony or any of the excellent chamber music groups around town.

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Classical Music Sampler: June 2011

May 31, 2011
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June is not a month that lends itself to an easy gathering of concert recommendations, mostly because it presents an an embarrassment of riches. Many festivals are in full swing, others just beginning.

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Classical Music Sampler: December 2009

November 27, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb Dec. 1: The Tufts Early Music Ensemble, including singers and instrumentalists, will present a free concert of secular music by the great 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay and his contemporaries, whom we rarely get to hear in live performance. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 8 p.m.

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