2009 FESTIVAL
Operatic Centerpiece
Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598-1659)
Festival Concerts
An Evening of Chamber Opera
John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon
Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Lucy Graham, Choreographer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Leader
Rebecca Kenneally, Director of the BEMF Youth Ensemble
Amanda Forsythe, Venus
Jesse Blumberg, Adonis
Mireille Lebel, Cupid
Aaron Sheehan, Actéon
Teresa Wakim, Diane
Laura Pudwell, Junon
Micrologus with guest artist Crawford Young, lute
Amors, Amors: Landscapes of Love, Lost and Found
Quattrocento Music from the Italian Courts
Ricercar Consort
directed by Philippe Pierlot
Ritratto dell'Amore: Music of Couperin, Marais, and Clérambault
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Pieter Wispelwey, 'cello
Beethoven in Berlin
Ensemble Zefiro
directed by Alfredo Bernardini
The Winds of the Serenissima: Music of dall'Abaco,
Vivaldi, Platti, Lotti, and Galuppi
Dialogos
directed by Katarina Livljanič
Judith: A Biblical Story from Renaissance Croatia
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
Masters of the Keyboard: Domenico Scarlatti
and Johann Sebastian Bach
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
A Grand Entertainment: "Orchestral" Delights
by the BEMF Chamber Ensemble
Stile Antico
Song of Songs: Sensuous Polyphony
from the Courts of Renaissance Europe
Trio Hantaï
Bach and his Contemporaries
The Flanders Recorder Quartet
The Amorous Flute
Paul Leenhouts, recorder
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord & organ
D'amours me plains: 16th- and 17th-century
Embellished Chansons and Madrigals
Erin Headley and Anne-Marie Lasla, violas da gamba
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
Les Esprits Inséparables
Micrologus
Venite Amandi a la Lizadra Festa: Ballate, Madrigali,
and Danze of the Italian Ars Nova
Tragicomedia and Friends
directed by Stephen Stubbs
Here I am, ready for kisses: The Many Sides of Love
in Monteverdi's Madrigals
Keyboard Mini-Festival
directed by Peter Sykes
featuring Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andrew Willis, Luca Guglielmi,
William Porter, Peter Sykes, and David Breitman
Organ Mini-Festival
directed by William Porter
featuring Joan Lippincott, Bálint Karosi, and William Porter
