Boston Early Music Festival
boston early music festival bemf nonprofit organization founded boston massachusetts promote historical music performance arranges annual boston new york city concert series produce opera recording organizes biennial weeklong festival exhibition boston one bemfs goal bring attention lesserknown baroque opera performed period singing orchestral performance costuming dance staging centerpiece biennial festival fully staged baroque opera production bemf opera led artistic director paul odette stephen stubbs orchestra director robert mealy opera director gilbert blin festival concert presented daily morning late night performed array musician ranging established emerging allow unique collaboration program performer assembled festival week scheduled fringe concert event presented local outoftown group venue boston cambridge bemfs annual season featured musician tallis scholar jordi savall hespèrion xxi le art florissants well north american débuts stile antico bach collegium japan netherlands bach society akademie für alte musik berlin bemf promotes exhibition festival largest event kind united state exhibition showcase early instrument maker music publisher service organization school university associated colleague bemf established annual concert series meet demand yearround performance early music expanded performance morgan library museum new york city project initiated record bemfs work field baroque opera cpo recording label series earned five grammy award nomination including grammy award best opera recording bemf introduced chamber opera series part annual concert season series present semistaged production chamber opera composed baroque period bemf took chamber production handel acis galatea fourcity north american tour king arthur henry purcell l’orfeo luigi rossi ercole amante francesco cavalli thésée jeanbaptiste lully ariadne johann georg conradi boris goudenow johann mattheson psyché jeanbaptiste lully venus adonis john blow actéon marcantoine charpentier lincoronazione di poppea claudio monteverdi acis galatea george frideric handel dido aeneas henry purcell niobe regina di tebe agostino steffani la descente dorphée aux enfers marcantoine charpentier la couronne de fleurs marcantoine charpentier lorfeo claudio monteverdi almira george frideric handel la serva padrona giovanni battista pergolesi livietta e tracollo giovanni battista pergolesi il ritorno dulisse patria claudio monteverdi le plaisirs de versailles marcantoine charpentier le fontaines de versailles michel richard delalande le carnaval de venise andre campra la liberazione di ruggiero francesca caccini orlando generoso agostino steffani pimpinone georg philipp telemann idylle sur la paix jeanbaptiste lully la fête de rueil marcantoine charpentier circé henri desmarest libretto louisegeneviève gillot de saintonge dragon wantley john frederick lampe quichotte georg philipp telemann planned octavia reinhard keiser planned burkat leonard fox pamela boston section sadie stanley tyrrell john ed new grove dictionary music musician nd ed london macmillan publisher isbn ‎ jaffee kay january conference report boston early music festival exhibition may – journal musicology – doijma official website