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Boston Early Music Festival

Classical Music Review: At BEMF, Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia Seduce with Charms and Riddles

Thanks to BEMF for once again presenting Benjamin Bagby, who seems incapable of serving up anything but a wonderfully memorable experience.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin Bagby, Boston Early Music Festival, Sequentia

Opera Review: Boston Early Music Opera’s “Orlando” — Divine Madness


This entertaining opera is a real soap opera, given that it chronicles the fallout of the passionate protagonist’s unrequited love.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Orlando, Orlando generoso

Classical Music Review: Tallis Scholars — Dependable Delight

The Tallis Scholars are unquestionably today’s most renowned exponent of Renaissance sacred music.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Nico Muly, Tallis Scholars

Opera Review: BEMF’s Utterly Captivating “Alcina”

When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Alcina, Boston Early Music Festival, chamber opera

Opera Review: BEMF’s “Le Carnaval de Venise” — A Delightful Triumph

Chock-full of truly delightful music, the production scores as yet another BEMF opera triumph.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: André Campra, Boston Early Music Festival, Gilbert Blin, Le Carnaval de Venise

Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival — The King’s Singers and Ayreheart

Boston Early Music Festival tossed a bang-up evening of performances on Monday night.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ayreheart, Boston Early Music Festival, Brian Kay, King's Singers, lutes

Opera Review: BEMF Hangs Out with the Sun King

The stellar BEMF team whips up a holiday confection that’s worth catching year after year.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain

Concert Review: Jordi Savall — Giant of the Early Music World

The extremely prolific viol virtuoso Jordi Savall clearly has deep feelings about Celtic music.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: bodhrán, Boston Early Music Festival, Celtic music, Frank McGuire, Jordi Savall, viol

Classical Music Review: BEMF’s “Acis and Galatea”—Glorious Entertainment

The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Acis and Galatea, Boston Early Music Festival, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

Fuse Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival — Musical Miracle Workers

After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: BEMF, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music, Monteverdi, Opera, Orfeo, The Coronation of Poppea, The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, Vespers of 1610

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