The centerpiece opera production of BEMF 2025 — Reinhard Keiser’s “Octavia” (1705) — dazzled us at the Emerson Cutler ...

Director James Robinson and his design team have found an ingenious, highly satisfying way to stage Giacomo Puccini’s ...

Boston Early Music Festival dazzled with virtuosic performances, vivid staging and rare baroque gems “Ino” and “Pimpinone,” ...

Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston is rapidly making a name for herself in the world of classical music, especially for her ...

From emperors and empresses to nymphs, gods and giants by way of faithful wives, sorceresses, knights, dastardly noblemen and dazzling coloratura arias, here's your guide to the master showman of ...

Julia Hansen’s design of interlocking curved rooms provides an elegantly post-baroque setting (though ... which will provide the root of the opera’s closing scene. We are unlikely to hear the Countess ...

Artaserse” may have the prince’s name in its title, but Key’mon Murrah, making his Haymarket debut, was unquestionably the ...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend ...

Federico Fiorio is a male soprano, specializing in the baroque. I first came across him on his professional debut in 2018 ...

The Rhinebeck-born singer-songwriter returns August 1 for a rare, intimate show at the Stissing Center to support Dutchess ...

Each edition of the festival mounts as its centerpiece a fully staged revival of a near-forgotten opera—in 2025, BEMF chose ...