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Stephen Stubbs

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

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

Opera Review: ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea’

By Caldwell Titcomb If you know a bit about opera, you will have heard of Verdi – but perhaps not of Monteverdi. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first major composer in the history of opera, and the biennial Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is presenting his last opera, “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” (“The Coronation of Poppaea”) […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Opera Tagged: “The Coronation of Poppaea”, Boston Early Music Festival, Caldwell-Titcomb, Claudio Monteverdi, Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs

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