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Welcome to the June 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, North America’s premier celebration of Early Music.
After the success of our 2021 Virtual Festival, we are thrilled to return in person for our 2023 Festival and Exhibition— A Celebration of Women—June 4 to 11.
We have planned a spectacular array of events honoring the work of women, both current and past, that will illuminate the integral role that women have always played in great classical music.
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To best protect the most vulnerable members of our community and those artists who cannot mask while performing, we are requiring guests to wear well-fitted face masks at all in-door events at the 2023 Festival. Please visit BEMF.org/safety to review our current policies. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Schedule:
10am–5pm
Exhibition
Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown - Empire Ballroom & the 5th Floor Conference Suite
11am–12:30pm
SYMPOSIUM
Taking Action in Changing Times: A Conversation
Moderated by Debra Nagy, Founder and Director of Les Délices
Wilbur/Colonial Ballroom, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
1pm
CONCERT & LECTURE
Cappella Clausura Celebrates Boston Women’s Memorial directed by Amelia LeClair, with Meredith Bergmann, Sculptor, and Susan Wilson, House Historian of the Omni Parker House
Commonwealth Mall (outside)/corner of Gloucester Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay
2pm–4pm
MASTERCLASS
Tekla Cunningham and Cynthia Roberts, violin
Library, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
1pm
LECTURE-WORKSHOP
Ricercar una Fantasia: Improvising counterpoint on lute and related instruments in the Renaissance
Presented by Bor Zuljan, archlute
The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue
5pm
CONCERT
The Newberry Consort
Liza Malamut, Artistic Director
Ellen Hargis, Guest Director
The Juan de Lienas Vespers
Emmanuel Church
5:30pm
PRE-OPERA TALK
Operatic sorceresses: heroines or villains?
Professor Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
6:40pm
OPENING FANFARE | Desmarest's Circé
Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
7pm
OPERA , Desmarest's Circé
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
8pm
CONCERT
The Orlando Consort
Voices Appeared: A live soundtrack to accompany the 1928 film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
10:30pm
CONCERT
Sollazzo Ensemble
Anna Danilevskaia, Director
Le corps s’en va, le coeur demeure: The Leuven Chansonnier