Boston, MA. (Top40 Charts/ Boston Early Music Festival) The Boston Early Music Festival presents the fifth production in its annual Chamber Opera Series, Monteverdi'sOrfeo, on Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 8pm and Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 3pm at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street in Boston, MA). Widely regarded as the first great opera, Monteverdi's Orfeo defined an art form in its infancy with breathtaking beauty and variety as it tells one of opera's most adored stories in which the heroic Orfeo descends to the underworld in hopes of reversing the tragic death of his beloved Euridice.
"Orfeo is full of beautiful music, it requires passionate, lyrical, and florid singing, and it can make us weep with the best of them"
"Orfeo is full of beautiful music, it requires passionate, lyrical, and florid singing, and it can make us weep with the best of them," writes noted Harvard professor Thomas Forrest Kelly in his notes for the program.
The magical musical entertainment of this Baroque opera is brought to life in a semi-staged production featuring superlative singing from a cast headlined by tenor Aaron Sheehan, lavish costumes, Baroque dance, and outstanding performances from the internationally acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble. Orfeo will be led by three-time Grammy-nominated BEMF Artistic Co-Directors Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs; along with Stage Director Gilbert Blin; Costume Designer Anna Watkins; Choreographer Melinda Sullivan; and Lighting DesignerLenore Doxsee.
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.
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Recognized as the preeminent early music presenting organization in North America, the Boston Early Music Festivalhas 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."
