Stubbs, Artistic Directors
Paul O’Dette & Stephen
Les Arts Florissants
THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE, violin
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025
8PM | New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
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21–27 NOVEMBER 2025
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WELCOME
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to welcome you to Les Arts Florissants with superstar violin soloist Théotime Langlois de Swarte on Friday, April 4. In the unparallelled acoustic of NEC’s magnificent Jordan Hall, we are thrilled to welcome Les Arts Florissants once again to the BEMF stage. Long regarded as one of Early Music’s definitive ensembles for their pioneering role in the Baroque revival, Les Arts Florissants made their BEMF début 35 years ago. They return to BEMF alongside the sensational violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte with a blockbuster program celebrating the 300th anniversary of the original publication of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in 1725. Additional works by Vivaldi as well as ones by Monteverdi and Uccellini, plus Geminiani’s orchestral adaptation of Corelli’s La Follia, round out the program.
Please join us for the final event of our 24/25 Season on Sunday, April 13 at 3pm in NEC’s Jordan Hall when we present the great Catalan viola da gambist Jordi Savall and his legendary ensemble Hespèrion XXI in a dazzling and eclectic program of folías, variations, improvisations, and more.
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PRESENTS
Les Arts Florissants
THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE, violin
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300
Adoramus te, SV 289 (transcription) Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Concerto in G minor, “Madrigalesco”, RV 129 Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) for strings and basso continuo
Adagio Allegro Adagio [without indication]
Bergamasca Marco Uccellini (ca. 1603/10–1680)
Concerto in D minor, RV 813
Vivaldi for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo
Allegro Adagio Allegro Adagio Andante e piano Largo Allegro
Concerto XII in D minor, “Follia” (after Corelli) Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762)
THE FOUR SEASONS (LE QUATTRO STAGIONI)
Concerto No. 1 in E major, “Spring” (La primavera), Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269
Vivaldi for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, “Summer” (L’estate), Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315
Vivaldi for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo
Allegro non molto
Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
Presto m INTERMISSION n
Overture to La Fida Ninfa (The Faithful Nymph) in F major, RV 714
Concerto No. 3 in F major, “Autumn” (L’autunno), Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293
Vivaldi
Vivaldi for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Grave from Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 370 Vivaldi
Concerto No. 4 in F minor, “Winter” (L’inverno), Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 Vivaldi for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo
Allegro non molto
Largo
Allegro
Double-manual French harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1991, after Donzelague, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.
LIVE CONCERT
Friday, April 4, 2025 at 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts
VIRTUAL CONCERT
Friday, April 18, 2025 – Friday, May 2, 2025
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LES ARTS FLORISSANTS
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin soloist
VIOLIN I
Augusta McKay Lodge, leader
Valentine Pinardel
Christophe Robert
Magdalena Sypniewski
VIOLIN II
Roxana Rastegar
Yaoré Talibart
Jeffrey Girton
Alyssa Campbell
VIOLA
Lucia Peralta
Nicolas Fromonteil
Program subject to change.
VIOLONCELLO
Hanna Salzenstein
Magdalena Probe
DOUBLE BASS
Alexandre Teyssonnière de Gramont
HARPSICHORD
Benoît Hartoin
North American management for Les Arts Florissants and Théotime Langlois de Swarte by David Rowe Artists, www.davidroweartists.com
Les Arts Florissants records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi
Théotime Langlois de Swarte records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi
Les Arts Florissants receives financial support from the State — the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs (DRAC), the Département de la Vendée and the Région Pays de la Loire.
The Selz Foundation is their Principal Sponsor.
Aline Foriel-Destezet and the American Friends of Les Arts Florissants are Major Sponsors. Les Arts Florissants has been ensemble in residence at the Philharmonie de Paris and is recognized as a “Heritage Site for Culture.”
Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production
Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer
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Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their leadership support of the 2024 performances of Don Quichotte:
Glenn A. KnicKrehm and Constellation Charitable Foundation Principal Production Sponsors
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Sponsor of Christian Immler, Don Quichotte, Emily Siar, Quiteria, Richard Pittsinger, Grisostomo, and Julian Donahue, dancer
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Sponsors of Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Lorna E. Oleck
Sponsor of the BEMF Dance Company
Diane and John Paul Britton Sponsors of Gwen van den Eijnde, Costume Designer
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Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Harriet Lindblom
Sponsor of Michael Sponseller, harpsichord in honor of Daniel Lindblom, harpsichordist and builder
Michael and Marie-Pierre Ellmann
Sponsors of Jason McStoots, Sancho Pansa
Joanne Zervas Sattley
Sponsor of Sarah Darling, viola
PROGRAM NOTES
A colorful figure in fascinating Baroque Venice who captivated audiences with his extravagance and virtuoso violin playing, Antonio Vivaldi is one of the most influential musicians of 18th-century Europe.
Born in Venice in 1678, Vivaldi quickly became violin master, choirmaster, and then concert master at the Ospedale della Pietà. There, he explored a wide range of musical activity, demonstrating an incomparable talent, notably in the invention of the solo concerto, which enchanted 18th-century musical Europe and inspired virtually all subsequent composers. His career also flourished in opera, particularly at the San Angelo theater in Venice, but also in Mantua, Rome, and Vienna.
The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni), whose 300th anniversary we are celebrating today, played an essential role in the composer’s fame. With its descriptive and imaginative writing, this work anticipates the programmatic music that would prevail among later Romanticera composers, and even included descriptive sonnets to help illustrate the music for performers and listeners. For violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte it embodies the essence of spirituality, a metaphysical work evoking life and death, with moments of great gentleness as well as extreme violence. Through his interpretation, Théotime seeks to capture the drama characteristic of Venetian arts: expressive density, operatic and theatrical emotion, and jubilant energy.
The works complementing The Four Seasons on our program serve to highlight musicians who influenced Vivaldi’s approach, and one he in turn inspired.
The transcription of Claudio Monteverdi’s Adoramus te, SV 289, is closely linked to Vivaldi’s childhood, when he accompanied his father, a musician in the San Marco orchestra which Monteverdi previously directed. The work also embodies the liturgical vocal style specific to Venice, as well as the city’s theatrical and musical environment. In a way, it represents Vivaldi’s musical DNA, upon which he built his virtuosity, notably through the abundance of repeated notes.
The Madrigalesco from Vivaldi’s Concerto for strings and continuo, RV 129, is composed in the “antico” style. Its presence here establishes an interesting connection between Monteverdi and Uccellini, revealing the extent to which the influences of the masters shaped Vivaldi’s new style.
If Monteverdi marks the beginning of Vivaldi’s musical journey, Marco Uccellini’s Bergamasca reveals the origin of his instrumental repertoire. A pioneer in the art of violin and sonata composition, Uccellini exerted a decisive influence on the young Vivaldi. This dance, based on a popular theme with variations, also celebrated the art of improvisation, an element dear to the Venetians and to the composer throughout his life.
ANTONIO VIVALDI Engraving by François Morellon la Cave (1725)
Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor, RV 813, was one of his earliest written for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. All the hallmarks of Vivaldi’s style are already present: joy, virtuosity, theatricality, exaltation. The popularity of this concerto is also due to Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterly transcription for keyboard.
Francesco Geminiani’s Follia—his Concerto XII in D minor, a transcription of Corelli’s treatment of this famous Baroque-era theme—illustrates the lineage of three Italian masters. Corelli, whose groundbreaking Opus 5 (concluding with Follia and published in 1700) was an inspirational figure to the young Vivaldi. And Geminiani’s Follia, published in 1729, was almost certainly influenced by the appearance of Vivaldi’s Opus 8 just four years prior. It also highlights the particularly lively and joyful spirit inherent to the art of the concerto, which Geminiani had undoubtedly heard in many of Vivaldi’s works.
Vivaldi’s Overture to La Fida Ninfa in F major, RV 714, evokes the Teatro San Angelo and shows how opera influenced Vivaldi’s instrumental
music, offering extraordinary vocality. Opera also enabled him to create dramatic interactions between instruments, where brilliance, impetuosity, sensuality, and seduction blend harmoniously in the soundscape.
The Grave movement from Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 370, is an unfinished piece, built on an ostinato chromatic bass. Théotime Langlois de Swarte has completed it here; a tribute from a young violinist to his illustrious elder.
When published in 1725, nobody could imagine Vivaldi’s Opus 8, Nos. 1–4 (The Four Seasons) would become perhaps the most frequently heard music of all time. Vivaldi’s singular genius continues to inspire artists the world over, as demonstrated by this concert of Les Arts Florissants led by violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte. As this great Vivaldi performer and loyal member of Les Arts Florissants puts it: “For one of the best-known composers in Western music, it is astonishing there are still so many facets to explore.” n —Copyright 2024 by Fannie Vernaz
SONNETS PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUR SEASONS
These sonnets, printed here in an English Translation, appeared in the first edition of The Four Seasons, published in 1725. Many assume they were penned by Vivaldi, although nobody is certain. They nevertheless must have been important to the composer.
SPRING
Allegro
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song, And murmuring streams are Softly caressed by the breezes. Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar, Casting their dark mantle over heaven, Then they die away to silence, And the birds take up their charming songs once more.
Largo
On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches Rustling overhead, the goatherd sleeps, His faithful dog beside him.
Allegro
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes, Nymphs and shepherds lightly dance Beneath spring’s beautiful canopy.
SUMMER
Allegro non molto
Under a hard season, fired up by the sun
Languishes man, languishes the flock and burns the pine.
We hear the cuckoo’s voice;
Then sweet songs of the turtledove and finch are heard. Soft breezes stir the air, but threatening
The North Wind sweeps them suddenly aside.
The shepherd trembles, Fearing violent storms and his fate.
Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
The fear of lightning and fierce thunder
Robs his tired limbs of rest
As gnats and flies buzz furiously around.
Presto
Alas, his fears were justified
The Heavens thunder and roar and with hail
Cut the head off the wheat and damages the grain.
AUTUMN
Allegro
Celebrates the peasant, with songs and dances,
The pleasure of a bountiful harvest.
And fired up by Bacchus’s liquor, Many end their revelry in sleep.
Adagio molto
Everyone is made to forget their cares and to sing and dance
By the air which is tempered with pleasure
And by the season that invites so many, many Out of their sweetest slumber to fine enjoyment.
Allegro
The hunters emerge at the new dawn,
And with horns and dogs and guns depart upon their hunting
The beast flees and they follow its trail; Terrified and tired of the great noise
Of guns and dogs, the beast, wounded, threatens Languidly to flee, but harried, dies.
WINTER
Allegro non molto
To tremble from cold in the icy snow, In the harsh breath of a horrid wind;
To run, stamping one’s feet every moment,
Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold;
Largo
Before the fire to pass peaceful, Contented days while the rain outside pours down.
Allegro
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously, For fear of tripping and falling. Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground and, Rising, hasten on across the ice lest it cracks up. We feel the chill north winds course through the home Despite the locked and bolted doors…
This is winter, which nonetheless Brings its own delights.
ARTIST PROFILES
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS
William Christie, Founder and Musical Director Paul Agnew, Musical Co-director
An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists who specialize in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants are renowned the world over. Founded in 1979 by the FrancoAmerican harpsichordist and conductor William Christie, the Ensemble, named for a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, has played a pioneering role in the revival of a Baroque repertoire that had long been neglected (including the rediscovery of countless treasures in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Today that repertoire is widely performed and admired: not only French music from the reign of Louis XIV, but also more generally European music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 2007, the Ensemble is also conducted
by the British tenor Paul Agnew, who was appointed Musical Co-director of Les Arts Florissants in 2019.
Each season, Les Arts Florissants give around 100 concerts and opera performances in France—at the Philharmonie de Paris, where they are artists in residence, the Théâtre de Caen, the Opéra Comique, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Château de Versailles, as well as at numerous festivals—and are an active ambassador for French culture abroad, being regularly invited to New York, London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Madrid, Barcelona, Moscow, and elsewhere.
Since the 1987 production of Lully’s Atys at the Opéra Comique in Paris, which was triumphantly revived in May 2011, it has been on the opera stage that Les Arts Florissants have enjoyed their greatest successes. Notable productions include works by Rameau (Les
Indes galantes, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Boréades, Les Paladins, Platée), Lully (Armide), Charpentier (Médée, David et Jonathas, Les Arts florissants), Handel (Orlando, Acis and Galatea, Semele, Alcina, Serse, Hercules, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato), Purcell (King Arthur, Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen), Mozart (The Magic Flute, Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Monteverdi (his opera trilogy), but also by composers who are less frequently played, such as Landi (Il Sant’Alessio), Cesti (Il Tito), Campra (Les Fêtes vénitiennes), and Hérold (Zampa).
For their theater productions, Les Arts Florissants have called on the talents of some of the greatest stage directors, including JeanMarie Villégier, Robert Carsen, Adrian Noble, Andrei Serban, Luc Bondy, Deborah Warner, David McVicar, Claus Guth, and Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff, as well as on renowned choreographers such as Béatrice Massin, Ana Yepes, Jirí Kylián, Blanca Li, Trisha Brown, Robyn Orlin, José Montalvo, Françoise Denieau, Dominique Hervieu, and Mourad Merzouki.
Les Arts Florissants enjoy an equally high profile in the concert hall, as illustrated by their many acclaimed concert or semi-staged performances of operas and oratorios (Rameau’s Zoroastre, Anacréon, and Les Fêtes d’Hébé, Charpentier’s Actéon and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, Campra’s Idoménée and Mozart’s Idomeneo, Montéclair’s Jephté, Rossi’s L’Orfeo, and Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Cecilia Bartoli, as well as his Theodora, Susanna, Jephtha, and Belshazzar), their secular and sacred chambermusic programs (petits motets by Lully and Charpentier, madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo, court airs by Lambert, and hymns by Purcell, among others), and their approach to large-scale works (particularly the grands motets by Rameau, Mondonville, Campra, and Charpentier, as well as Handel’s Messiah and J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion).
The Ensemble has produced an impressive discography: nearly 100 recordings (CD and DVD) and its own collection in collaboration with harmonia mundi directed by William Christie and Paul Agnew.
In recent years, Les Arts Florissants have launched several education programs for young musicians. The most emblematic is the Academy of Le Jardin des Voix: created in 2002, it is held every two years and has already brought a substantial number of new singers into the limelight. The Arts Flo Juniors program, launched in 2007, enables conservatory students to join the orchestra and chorus for the length of a production, from the first day of rehearsals up to the final performance. And then there is the partnership between William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, and New York’s Juilliard School of Music, which since 2007 has allowed a fruitful artistic exchange between the U.S. and France. Launched in 2021, a yearly program of masterclasses in Thiré (Vendée, Pays de la Loire) comes to complete this panel of programs with short working sessions led by William Christie and Paul Agnew, to help young professionals improve their skills.
Les Arts Florissants also organize numerous events aimed at building new audiences. Linked to each year’s concert program, they are designed for both amateur musicians and non-musicians, adults as much as children.
In 2012, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants created the festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie, in partnership with the Conseil départemental de la Vendée. An annual event, the festival brings together artists from Les Arts Florissants, pupils from The Juilliard School, and finalists from Le Jardin des Voix for concerts and promenades musicales in the gardens created by William Christie at Thiré, in the Vendée. In addition to the festival, Les Arts Florissants are working with the endowment fund Les Jardins de Musique de William Christie towards the creation of a permanent cultural venue in Thiré. In 2017, following a decision by the French Ministry of Culture, Les Arts Florissants has been awarded the national label Centre culturel de Rencontre, which distinguishes projects associating creation, patrimony, and transmission. In 2018, Les Arts Florissants became the Foundation Les Arts Florissants – William Christie. n
“Performances so special that I feel a changed man from listening” (Gramophone); “A stunner by any standard” (The Strad); and “Mesmerizing” (The New Yorker)—these represent common reactions upon encountering violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, who is rapidly emerging as a much sought-after violin soloist (on both Baroque and modern instruments), chamber musician, recitalist, and conductor.
Recognition has come in the form of major awards, including the 2022 Diapason d’Or de l’Année for his recording of Vivaldi, Locatelli, and Leclair concertos (harmonia mundi), and the 2022 “Ambassador of the Year” award from the European Early Music Network (REMA), along with multiple additional recording awards and a February 2022 cover story in The Strad magazine.
In solo appearances on both Baroque and modern violin, de Swarte regularly offers concertos by all of the Baroque masters, along with those of Haydn and Mozart. He has appeared with Les Arts Florissants, Le Consort, Orchestre de l’Opera Royal, Holland Baroque, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Les Ombres, and Orchestre National de Lorraine. His engagements have brought him to prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, Vienna’s Musikverein, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and the Shanghai National Art Center.
Théotime Langlois de Swarte studied at the Paris Conservatory under Michael Hentz, and became a regular member of Les Arts Florissants at William Christie’s invitation in 2014, while still a student. He has since appeared as soloist with the ensemble, and will perform Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with them on North American tours in the spring and fall of 2025. He has also appeared in recital with William Christie, including a 2021 recording of sonatas by Leclair and Senaille (Generations on harmonia mundi).
As co-founder—with harpsichordist Justin Taylor—of the Baroque ensemble Le Consort, de Swarte can be heard on numerous highly acclaimed recordings including Specchio Veneziano, Opus 1, and Philarmonica, all on Alpha Classics. Le Consort has performed widely throughout Europe, and their début North American tours in 2023–2024 included Montreal, Boston, Washington, Kansas City, Berkeley, Chicago, St. Paul, Louisville, New Orleans, Vancouver, and Ottawa.
Besides William Christie, frequent recital collaborators include harpsichordist Justin Taylor and lute player Thomas Dunford, with whom he recorded a much-praised album titled The Mad Lover. Another notable recording, A Concert at the Time of Proust, was made on the newly restored Davidoff Stradivarius at the Philharmonie de Paris Museum. His most recent recording—Antonio Vivaldi Concerti per una vita (harmonia mundi)—has garnered wide acclaim, and early 2025 marks the release of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the work’s publication.
Alongside his instrumental work, de Swarte is emerging as a conductor. In 2023 he led performances at l’Opera Comique of Lully’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (with Les Musiciens du Louvre at Marc Minkowski’s invitation) and Grétry’s Zémire et Azor (at Louis Langrée’s invitation). He returns to l’Opera Comique to lead Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride in November 2025.
Théotime Langlois de Swarte is a laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation. He plays a violin of Carlo Bergonzi (1733) on generous loan from an anonymous patron. n
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BEMF’S 2023 PRODUCTION OF DESMAREST’S CIRCÉ
Boston Early Music Festival
The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London). Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).
INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE OPERA
One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin. Biennial centerpiece productions feature both the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, led by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and the
Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, led by BEMF’s newly appointed Dance Director, Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière.
The 22nd biennial Boston Early Music Festival, A Celebration of Women, was held in June 2023 and featured Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge. The 23rd Festival, in June 2025, will have as its centerpiece Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 opera Octavia.
BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in November 2008, with a performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series features the artists of the Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber
International Baroque Opera • Celebrated Concerts • World-Famous Exhibition
PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN
Ensembles and focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil, John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, and most recently Telemann’s Don Quichotte. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a fourcity North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011. In summer 2025, The Dragon of Wantley will be performed at Confidencen in Stockholm, Sweden, and at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Oldenburg, Germany, as part of Musikfest Bremen.
BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its
groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/ Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, four-country European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason d’Or de l’Année and a 2015 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on
SCENE FROM BEMF’S 2023 PRODUCTION OF LAMPE’S THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY
PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN
Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a six-city North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020. BEMF’s recording of Desmarest’s Circé, the 2023 Festival opera, was released concurrently with the opera’s North American premiere, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo was released in December 2023, and the newest recording, Telemann’s Ino and opera arias for soprano featuring Amanda Forsythe, was released in October 2024.
CELEBRATED CONCERTS
Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, among them a program by the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, which often feature unique, oncein-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for
the Festival week’s events. In 1989, BEMF established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest early-music scene” (New York Times).
WORLD-FAMOUS EXHIBITION
The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues. In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition, in their first-ever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n
THE BEMF ORCHESTRA AT THE JUNE 2023 FESTIVAL PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE
Boston Early Music Festival
Revenue from ticket sales, even from a sold-out performance, accounts for less than half of the total cost of producing BEMF’s operas and concerts; the remainder is derived almost entirely from generous friends like you. With your help, we will be able to build upon the triumphs of the past, and continue to bring you thrilling performances by today’s finest Early Music artists.
Our membership organization, the FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, includes donors from around the world. These individuals recognize the Festival’s need for further financial support in order to fulfill its aim of serving as a showcase for the finest talent in the field.
PLEASE JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL BY DONATING AT ONE OF SEVERAL LEVELS:
• Friend
$45
• Partner $100
• Associate $250
• Patron $500
• Guarantor $1,000
• Benefactor $2,500
• Leadership Circle $5,000
• Artistic Director’s Circle $10,000
• Festival Angel $25,000
THREE WAYS TO GIVE:
• Visit BEMF.org and click on “Give Now”.
• Call BEMF at 617-661-1812 to donate by telephone using your credit card
• Mail your credit card information or a check (payable to BEMF) to Boston Early Music Festival, 43 Thorndike Street, Suite 302, Cambridge, MA 02141-1764
OTHER WAYS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:
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QUESTIONS? Please e-mail Kathleen Fay at kathy@bemf.org, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. Thank you for your support!
Boston Early Music Festival
This list reflects donations received from June 1, 2023 to March 12, 2025
FESTIVAL ANGELS
($25,000 or more)
Anonymous (2)
Bernice K. Chen
Brit d’Arbeloff
Peter L. Faber
David Halstead & Jay Santos
George L. Hardman
Glenn A. KnicKrehm
Jeffrey G. Mora, in memory of Wendy Fuller-Mora
Miles Morgan†
Lorna E. Oleck
Susan L. Robinson
Andrew Sigel
Joan Margot Smith
Piroska Soos†
Donald E. Vaughan & Lee S. Ridgway
Marilee Wheeler Trust
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE
($10,000 or more)
Anonymous (4)
Katie & Paul Buttenwieser
Susan Denison
Tony Elitcher & Andrea Taras
Marie-Pierre & Michael Ellmann
Jean Fuller Farrington
Lori Fay & Christopher Cherry
Clare M. S. Fewtrell†
James A. Glazier
Donald Peter Goldstein, M.D., in memory of Constance Kellert Goldstein
Ellen T. & John T. Harris
Barbara & Amos Hostetter
David M. Kozak & Anne Pistell, in memory of their parents
Robert E. Kulp, Jr., in memory of James Nicolson, Miles Morgan & Ned Kellogg
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. MacCracken
Heather Mac Donald & Erich Eichman
Bill McJohn
Joanne Zervas Sattley
David Scudder, in memory of Marie Louise Scudder
Karen Tenney & Thomas Loring
Maria van Kalken & Hal Winslow
Christoph Wolff
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
($5,000 or more)
Anonymous (2)
Diane & John Paul Britton
Beth Brown, in memory of Walter R.J. Brown
Gregory E. Bulger & Richard J. Dix
Peter & Katie DeWolf
Susan Donaldson
Kathleen Fay, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay
John Felton & Marty Gottron, in honor of Paul O’Dette
Mei-Fung Kerley, in memory of Ted Chen
Alan M. King
Harriet Lindblom, in memory of Daniel Lindblom
Victor & Ruth McElheny
Bettina A. Norton
Harold I. Pratt
Kenneth C. Ritchie & Paul T. Schmidt
Nina & Timothy Rose
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($2,500 or more)
Anonymous (3)
Annemarie Altman
Dr. Alan & Mrs. Fiona Brener
Douglas M. & Aviva A. Brooks
Amy Brown & Brian Carr
Carla Chrisfield & Benjamin D. Weiss
Jeffrey Del Papa
David Emery & Olimpia Velez
Phillip Hanvy
Dr. Peter Libby, in memory of Dr. Beryl Benacerraf
Lawrence & Susan Liden
John S. Major & Valerie Steele
Rebecca Nemser, in memory of Paul Nemser
Brian Pfeiffer
Paul Rabin & Arlene Snyder
Catherine & Phil Saines, in honor of Barbara K. Wheaton
Paul L. Sapienza, PC, CPA
Raymond A. & Marilyn Smith
Richard K. & Kerala J. Snyder
Adrian & Michelle Touw
Will & Alexandra Watkins
Allan & Joann Winkler
Ellen & Arnold Zetcher
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($1,000 or more)
Anonymous (11)
A.M. Askew
Ann Beha & Robert Radloff
Mary Briggs & John Krzywicki
The Honorable Leonie M. Brinkema & Mr. John R. Brinkema
Pamela & Lee Bromberg
James Burr
Betty Canick
John A. Carey
Robert & Elizabeth Carroll
David J. Chavolla
Bernice Chen & Mimi Kerley, in memory of Ted Chen
Peter S. Coleman
Dr. & Mrs. Franklyn Commisso
Mary Cowden
Geoffrey Craddock
Richard & Constance Culley
Belden & Pamela Daniels
Mary Deissler
Carl E. Dettman
John W. Ehrlich
Charles & Elizabeth Emerson
Claire Fontijn, in memory of Arthur Fontijn & Sylvia Elvin
Bruce A. Garetz
Alexander Garthwaite
Sarah M. Gates
George & Marla Gearhart
Dr. Robert L. Harris
Rebecca & Ronald Harris-Warrick
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Michael Herz & Jean Roiphe
James & Ina Heup
Jessica Honigberg
Jane Hoover
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Jean & Alex Humez
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MAFAA
William & Joan Magretta
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David McCarthy & John Kolody
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Michael P. McDonald
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Louise Oremland
Richard & Julia Osborne
Neal J. Plotkin & Deborah Malamud
Gene & Margaret Pokorny
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Tracy Powers
Susan Pundt
Christa Rakich & Janis Milroy
Alice Robbins & Walter Denny
Arthur & Elaine Robins
Sue Robinson
Jose M. Rodriguez & Richard A. Duffy
Patsy Rogers
Lois Rosow
Michael & Karen Rotenberg
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Lynne & Ralph Schatz
Susan Schuur
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Laila Awar Shouhayib
Cynthia Siebert
Elizabeth Snow
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Catherine & Keith Stevenson
Paola Stone, in memory of Edmondo Malanotte
Theresa & Charles Stone
Carl Swanson
Lisa Teot
Paula & Peter Tyack
Reed & Peggy Ueda
Louella Krueger Ward, in memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, PhD, ABPP
Peter J. Wender
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($500 or more)
Anonymous (3)
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Nicholas Altenbernd
Brian P. & Debra K. S. Anderson
Eric Hall Anderson
Tom & Judy Anderson Allen
Louise Basbas
William & Ann Bein
Michael & Sheila Berke
Susan Bromley
Julie Brown & Zachary Morowitz
Robert Burger
Frederick Byron
John Campbell & Susanna Peyton
Anne Chalmers & Holly Gunner
Mary Chamberlain
JoAnne Chernow
Joseph Connors
David Cooke
Elizabeth & David Cregger
Eric & Margaret Darling
Kathryn Disney
Ellen Dokton & Stephen Schmidt
Ross Duffin & Beverly Simmons, in honor of Kathleen Fay
Austin & Eileen Farrar
Mary Fillman & Mary Otis Stevens
Martin & Kathleen Fogle
Elizabeth French
Jonathan Friedes & Qian Huang
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Robin Johnson
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Susan Lewinnek
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Mary Maarbjerg
Quinn MacKenzie
Marietta Marchitelli
Carol & Pedro Martinez
Anne H. Matthews
June Matthews
Marilyn Miller
Ray Mitzel
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Alan & Kathy Muirhead
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Clara M. & John S. O’Shea
Richard† & Lois Pace, in honor of Peter Faber
William J. Pananos
Henry Paulus
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Phillip Petree
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Martha J. Radford
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Michael Rogan & Hugh Wilburn
Ellen Rosand
Rusty Russell, in honor of Kathy Fay
Cheryl K. Ryder
David Schneider & Klára Móricz
Richard Schroeder & Dr. Jane Burns
Charles & Mary Ann Schultz
Harvey A. Silverglate, in memory of Elsa Dorfman
Mark Slotkin
Lynne Spencer
Louisa C. Spottswood
Ted St. Antoine
Ann Stewart
Ronald W. Stoia
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Douglas L. Teich, M.D.
Mark S. Thurber & Susan M. Galli
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Robert Warren
Thomas & LeRose Weikert
Polly Wheat & John Cole
Scott & Barbara Winkler
Kathleen Wittman & Melanie Andrade, in memory of John Wittman
Beverly Woodward & Paul Monsky
ASSOCIATES
($250 or more)
Anonymous (11)
Jonathan B. Aibel & Julie I. Rohwein, in honor of James Glazier
Elizabeth Alexander
Julie Andrijeski & J. Tracy Mortimore
Carl Baker & Susan Haynes
Lawrence Bell
Helen Benham
Susan Benua
Noel & Paula Berggren
Barbara R. Bishop
Wes Bockley & Amy Markus
Deborah Boldin & Gabriel Rice
James Bowman
David Breitman & Kathryn Stuart
C. Anthony Broh & Jennifer L. Hochschild
David C. Brown
Darcy Lynn Campbell
Joseph Cantey
Peter Charig & Amy Briemer
Floyd & Aleeta Christian
Daniel Church & Roger Cuevas
Priscilla H. Claman
John K. Clark & Judith M. Stoughton
Sherryl & Gerard Cohen
Derek Cottier & Lauren Tilly
Tekla Cunningham & David Sawyer
Warren R. Cutler
Leigh Deacon
William Depeter
Michael DiSabatino, in honor of Nancy Olson
Charles & Sheila Donahue
Alan Durfee†
Chuck Epstein & Melia Bensussen
The Rev’d Richard Fabian
Lila M. Farrar
Gregg, Abby & Max Feigelson
Charles Fisk
Fred Franklin, in memory of Kaaren Grimstad
Gisela & Ronald Geiger
Monica & David Gerber
The Graver Family
Mary Greer
Thomas H. & Lori B. Griswold
Sonia Guterman, in memory of Martin Guterman
Dr. Joanna Haas
Eric & Dee Hansen
Deborah Haraldson
Rebecca & Richard Hawkins
Diane Hellens
Katherine A. Hesse
David Hoglund
Amy & Seamus Hourihan
Keith L. & Catherine B. Hughes
Brian Hussey
Francesco Iachello
Chris & Klavs Jensen
Michele Jerison
Kathleen O’Dea Kelly
David P. Kiaunis
Robert L. Kleinberg
Forrest Knowles
Tim Barber & Joel Krajewski
Jay Carlton Kuhn, Jr.
Christopher Larossa
Jasper Lawson
David A. Leach & Laurie J. LaChapelle
William Leitch
Rob & Mary Joan Leith
Robert & Janice Locke
William Loutrel & Thomas Fynan
Sally Mayer
Donna McCampbell
Anne McCants
Andrew Modest & Beth Arndtsen
Stephen Moody
Agatha Morrell
Gene Murrow
Michael J. Normile
Nancy Nuzzo
Nancy Olson
Eugene Papa
Jane P. Papa
John Parisi
Susan Pettee & Michael Wise
Elizabeth V. Phillips
Stephen Poteet
Anne & François Poulet
Lawrence Pratt & Rosalind Forber
Brandon Qualls
Virginia Raguin
Julia M. Reade & Robert A. Duncan
Rodney J. Regier
David Rehm
Hadley & Jeannette Reynolds
Marge Roberts
Paul Rutz
Susan Sargent
Richard L. Schmeidler
Miriam N. Seltzer
Mr. Terry Shea & Dr. Seigo Nakao
Jacob & Lisa Skowronek
David Snead & Kate Prescott
Jon Solins
Jeffrey Soucy
Victoria Sujata
Jonathan Swartz
Ken & Margo Taylor
Kenneth P. Taylor
Elizabeth Trumpler, in memory of Donald Trumpler
Peter & Kathleen Van Demark
Robert Viarengo
Robert & Therese Wagenknecht
Juanita H. Wetherell
Sarah Whittaker
Susan Wyatt
J. Yavarkovsky & C. Lowe
The Zucker Family
PARTNERS
($100 or more)
Anonymous (10)
Anonymous, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay
Anonymous, in memory of Thomas Roney
Vilde Aaslid
Anne Acker
Joseph Aieta III
Mr. Neale Ainsfield & Dr. Donna Sieckmann
Joanne Algarin
Druid Errant D.T. Allan-Gorey
Ken Allen
Gene Arnould
Neil R. Ayer, Jr. & Linda Ayer
Susan P. Bachelder
Eric & Rebecca Bank
Dr. David Barnert & Julie Raskin
Rev. & Mrs. Joseph Bassett
Alan Bates & Michele Mandrioli
Elaine Beilin
Alan Benenfeld
Judith Bergson
Larry & Sara Mae Berman
John Birks
Sarah Bixler & Christopher Tonkin
Katharine C. Black
Moisha Blechman
Dan Bloomberg & Irene Beardsley
Claire Bonfilio
Sally & Charlie Boynton
Sibel Bozdogan
James Bradley
Joel Bresler
Andrew Brethauer
Derick & Jennifer Brinkerhoff
Catherine & Hillel Shahan Bromberg
David L. Brown
Lawrence Brown
Margaret H. Brown
John H. Burkhalter III
Judi Burten, in memory of Phoebe Larkey
William Carroll
Bonnie & Walter Carter
Robert B. Christian
Deborah J. Cohen
Carol & Alex Collier
Anne Conner
Peter B. Cook
Robert B. Crane
Martina Crocker
Katherine Crosier, in memory of Carl C. Crosier
Gray F. Crouse
Donna Cubit-Swoyer
Alicia Curtis & Kathy Pratt
Ruta Daugela
Carl & May Daw
Jim Diamond
Deborah & Forrest Dillon
Paul Doerr
Tamar & Jeremy Kaim Doniger
Ben Dunham & Wendy Rolfe-Dunham
John Dunton & Carol McKeen
Peter A. Durfee & Peter G. Manson
Michael Durgin, in memory of Lisle Kulbach
Jane Edwards
Mark Elenko
Thomas Engel
Anne Engelhart & Douglas Durant
David English
Jake Esher
Marilyn Farwell
Margot Fassler
Ellen Feingold
Grace A. Feldman, in honor of Bernice Chen
Annette Fern
Janet G. Fink
Carol L. Fishman
Dr. Jonathan Florman
Howard C. Floyd
Gary Freeman
Marica & Jeff Freyman
Friends
Michael Gannon
R. Andrew Garthwaite
Stephen L. Gencarello
William Glenn
Tom Golden
The Goldsmith Family
Lisa Goldstein
Nancy L. Graham
Lorraine & William Graves
Winifred Gray
Judith Green & James Kurtz
Deborah Grose
John Gruver & Lynn Tilley
Peter F. Gustafson
Eric Haas, in memory of Janet Haas
Richard & Les Hadsell
Suzanne & Easley Hamner
Judith & Patrick Hanlon
Joyce Hannan
David J. Harris, MD
Sam & Barbara Hayes
Karin Hemmingsen
Marie C. Henderson, in memory of A. Brandt Henderson
Rebecca Henderson
Roderick J. Holland
Jackie Horne
Valerie Horst & Benjamin Peck
John Hsia
Judith & Alan Hudson
Constance Huff
Joe Hunter & Esther Schlorholtz
Susan L. Jackson
Karen Johansen & Gardner Hendrie
M. P. Johnson
Robert & Selina Johnson
Tim Johnson, in memory of Bill Gasperini
Judith L. Johnston & Bruce L. Bush, in memory of Daniel Lindblom
David K. Jordan
Marietta B. Joseph
George Kaminsky
David Keating
Thomas Keirstead
Mr. & Mrs. Seamus C. Kelly
Louis & Susan Kern
Joseph J. Kesselman, Jr.
Holly Ketron
Leslie & Kimberly King
Maryanne King
Pat Kline
Valerie & Karl KnicKrehm
George Kocur
Leslie Kooyman
Valerie Krall
Ellen Kranzer
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Robert W. Kruszyna
Peter A. Lans
Claire Laporte
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Diana Larsen
Joanne & Carl Leaman
Alison Leslie
Drs. Sidney & Lynne Levitsky
Ellen R. Lewis
Laura Loehr
Sandra & David Lyons
Desmarest Lloyd MacDonald, in memory of Ned Kellogg
Dr. Bruce C. MacIntyre
Louise Malcolm, in memory of W. David Malcolm, Jr.
Jeffrey & Barbara Mandula
Anna Mansbridge
Robert Marshall
Timothy Masters
Dr. Arnold Matlin & Dr. Margaret Matlin, Ph.D.
Mary McCallum
Lee McClelland
Heidi & George McEvoy
George McKee
Dave & Jeannette McLellan
Cynthia Merritt
Susan Metz, in memory of Gerald Metz
Eiji Miki†
Marg Miller
Nicolas Minutillo
Rosalind Mohnsen
David Montanari & Sara Rubin
Michael J. Moran, in memory of Francis D. & Marcella A. Moran
Stefanie Moritz
Rodney & Barbara Myrvaagnes
Debra Nagy
Cindy K. Neels
Arthur & Charlotte Ness, in memory of Ingolf Dahl
Nancy Nicholson
Jeffrey Nicolich
Caroline Niemira
Lee Nunley
Leslie Nyman
Michael & Jan Orlansky
Patricia T. Owen
David & Claire Oxtoby
John R. Palys
Theodore Parent, in memory of Ruth Parent
Susan Patrick, in memory of Don Partridge
Jonah Pearl
Elizabeth Pearson-Griffiths
John Percy
John Petrowsky
Bici Pettit-Barron
Susan Porter & Robert Kauffman
Thomas & Barbara Prescott
Klaus Radebold
George Raff
Deborah M. Reisman
Melissa Rice
Dennis & Anne Rogers
Sherry & William Rogers
Stephanie L. Rosenbaum
Paul Rosenberg & Harriet Moss
Peter & Linda Rubenstein
Charlotte Rutherfurd
Patricia & Roger Samuel
Mike Scanlon
Robert & Barbara Schneider
Clem Schoenebeck, in memory of Bill Schoenebeck
R. Scholz & M. Kempers
Lynn & Mary Schultz
Michael Schwartz
Alison M. Scott
David Sears
Jean Seiler
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Michael Sherer
Kathy Sherrick
Susan Shimp
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Hana Sittler
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Jennifer Farley Smith & Sam Rubin
Richard Snow
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Scott Sprinzen
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Barbara Strizhak, in memory of Elliott Strizhak
Richard Stumpf
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Richard Tarrant
John & Barbara Tatum
Lisa Terry
Meghan K. Titzer
Janet Todaro, in honor of Kathy Fay
Edward P. Todd
Peter Townsend
Pierre Trepagnier & Louise Mundinger
Ruth W. Tucker
Konstantin & Kirsten Tyurin
Barbara & John VanScoyoc
Richard & Virginia von Rueden
Susan Walters
Cheryl S. Weinstein
The Westner Family
The Rev. Roger B. White, in memory of Joseph P. Hough
John C. Wiecking
Susan & Thomas Wilkes
David L. Williamson
Phyllis S. Wilner
John Wolff & Helen Berger
Paulette York & Richard Borts
David Yutzler
Ellen L. Ziskind
Lawrence Zukof & Pamela Carley
† deceased
FOUNDATIONS & CORPORATE SPONSORS
Anonymous (2)
Aequa Foundation
American Endowment Foundation
Appleby Charitable Foundation
Applied Technology Investors
BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
The Barrington Foundation, Inc.
The Bel-Ami Foundation
The Boston Foundation
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Gregory E. Bulger Foundation
Burns & Levinson LLP
The Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation
Cabot Family Charitable Trust
Cambridge Community Foundation
Cambridge Trust Company
Cedar Tree Foundation
Cembaloworks of Washington
City of Cambridge
The Columbus Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Connecticut Community Foundation
Constellation Charitable Foundation
The Fannie Cox Foundation
The Crawford Foundation
CRB Classical 99.5, a GBH station
Daffy Charitable Fund
The Dusky Fund at Essex County Community Foundation
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
Fidelity Charitable
Fiduciary Trust Charitable
French Cultural Center / Alliance Française of Boston
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Goethe-Institut Boston
The Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
The Florence Gould Foundation
GTC Law Group
Haber Family Charitable Foundation
Hausman Family Charitable Trust
The High Meadow Foundation
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Isaacson-Draper Foundation
The Richard and Natalie Jacoff Foundation, Inc.
Jewish Communal Fund
Key Biscayne Community Foundation
Konstantin Family Foundation
Maine Community Foundation
Makromed, Inc.
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Mastwood Foundation
Morgan Stanley
National Endowment for the Arts
Newstead Foundation
Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
The Packard Humanities Institute
Plimpton-Shattuck Fund at The Boston Foundation
The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation
REALOGY Corporation
Renaissance Charitable
The Saffeir Family Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
David Schneider & Klára Móricz Fund at Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Schwab Charitable
Scofield Auctions, Inc.
The Seattle Foundation
Shalon Fund
Kathy & Alexander Silbiger Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation
TIAA Charitable Giving Fund Program
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
The Tzedekah Fund at Combined Jewish Philanthropies
The Upland Farm Fund
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Trust/Bank of America
Private Wealth Management
Vanguard Charitable
Walker Family Trust at Fidelity Charitable
Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation
Marian M. Warden Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
The Windover Foundation
Women On The Move LLC
MATCHING CORPORATIONS
21st Century Fox
Allegro MicroSystems
Amazon Smile
AmFam
Analog Devices
Aspect Global
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Biogen
Carrier Global
Dell, Inc.
Exelon Foundation
FleetBoston Financial Corporation
Genentech, Inc.
Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. LLC
John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.
Community Gifts Through Harvard University
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
IBM Corporation
Intel Foundation
Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG)
Microsoft Corporation
MLE Foundation, Inc.
Natixis Global Asset Management
Novartis US Foundation
NVIDIA
Pfizer
Pitney Bowes
Salesforce.org
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Takeda
Tetra Tech
United Technologies Corporation
Verizon Foundation
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Xerox Foundation
That Feeling You Get
The virtuous Empress Octavia is betrayed by her increasingly erratic husband, Nero, putting all of Rome on the brink of rebellion in Keiser’s monumental work for the famed Hamburg Opera in 1705.
