Boston (Top40 Charts/ Boston Early Music Festival) The
Boston Early
Music Festival celebrates five seasons of the BEMF Chamber Opera Series with a Gala Concert performance of highlights on Thanksgiving weekend, Sunday, December 1 at 3pm at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street in Boston, MA). Hailed by The
Boston Globe for "vivid performances," since 2008 the BEMF Chamber Opera Series has taken the organization's internationally acclaimed musicianship, scholarship, and direction showcased in its fully staged biennial Festival operas and focused it on rarely heard gems and beloved masterpieces in intimate productions at Boston's magnificent Jordan Hall at NEC.
Three-time Grammy-nominated BEMF Artistic Co-Directors Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs and BEMF Opera
Director Gilbert Blin have crafted a concert featuring some of their favorite selections from the seven operas that have been featured in the BEMF Chamber Opera Series since 2008, with gorgeous excerpts from such operas as Handel's Acis and Galatea, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Monterverdi's Orfeo, and more. Performing these breathtaking selections will be the all-star singers and instrumentalists of the BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles with audience favorites featured in past productions including soprano
Amanda Forsythe, tenor
Aaron Sheehan, the 13 member BEMF Chamber Ensemble featuring concertmaster Robert Mealy , and more.
Tickets are priced at $19, $38, $49, $66, and $125 are available through the
Boston Early
Music Festival at 617-661-1812 or at WWW.BEMF.ORG , as well as through the Jordan Hall Box Office located at 30 Gainsborough Street in
Boston and by telephone at 617-585-1260.
Recognized as the preeminent early music presenting organization in North America, the
Boston Early
Music Festival has been credited with securing Boston's reputation as "America's early music capital" ( The
Boston Globe) . Founded in 1981, the
Boston Early
Music Festival offers diverse programs and activities, including three Grammy-nominated opera recordings, an annual concert series that brings early music's brightest stars to the
Boston and New York concert stages, and a biennial week-long Festival and Exhibition that BBC3
Radio recently called "arguably the most important and influential Early
Music event in the world."
