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Opera Album Review: The Boston Early Music Festival — One of the Best Recordings Ever of a Baroque Opera

The Boston Early Music Festival returns in person — and in a world-premiere recording of a German Baroque opera.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Antiochus and Stratonica, Christoph Graupner, Paul O'Dette, Ralph Locke, Stephen Stubbs, The Boston Early Music Festival

Opera Review: BEMF’s “La storia di Orfeo” — A Musical Triumph

I do not know how BEMF will ever top this. Bravo tutti!

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amanda Forsythe, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, La storia di Orfeo, Paul O'Dette, Philippe Jaroussky, Stephen Stubbs, Susan Miron

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’s Glorious Highlights

The more I hear performed by the BEMF, especially their operas, the more deeply impressed – and thankful – I am.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Almira, BEMF, operas, Paul O'Dette, Steven Stubbs

Fuse Concert Review: Kirkby and O’Dette do dazzling Dowland

Dame Emma Kirkby

Dame Emma, now sixty-four, sat and sang just quietly enough and with the right measure of mystery and stillness to draw the audience in, and to keep them there in a trance.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Dame Emma Kirkby, John Dowland, Paul O'Dette

Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival’s Duo of Charpentier Operas Delights

I keep being surprised by the brilliant productions and overall excellence of the concerts Boston Early Music Festival presents.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Aaron Sheehan, Anna Watkins, Baroque, BEMF, Boston Early Music Festival, Gilbert Blin, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Melinda Sullivan, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, The Crown of Flowers, The Descent of Orpheus to the Underworld

Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival: Part One

The Boston Early Music Festival is THE place for performers to be heard. And there are enough good programs, between the big Jordan Hall concerts, the two operas, a Family Day program, the mini-festivals for organ and keyboard, fringe concerts at at odd hours of the day and late night, for everyone.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Canticum Canticorum, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, The King's Singers

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