2005 Festival
East Meets West: Germany, Russia and the Baltic States – Music from the Maritime World of Northern Europe

2005 Fully-staged Operatic Centerpiece

(1710)

Music and libretto by Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)

Fully-staged world premiere: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at
the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Music Directors
Lucy Graham & Nils Niemann, Stage Co-Directors
David Cockayne, Set Designer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer & Supervisor
Lenore Doxsee, Lighting Designer
Lucy Graham, Choreographer
Kathleen Fay, Executive Producer
Abbie H. Katz, Associate Producer
Special thanks to Jörg Jacobi for creating the Boston Early Music Festival performing edition of Johann Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow.

Cast

Chorus

Michela Macfarlane, Jayne Tankersley, Teresa Wakim & Brenna J. Wells, soprano
Michael Barrett, Thomas A. Gregg, William D. Hudson, Jason McStoots & Mark Sprinkle, tenor
Alexander Prokhorov, Sumner Thompson & Douglas Williams, bass

Orchestra

Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Andrey Reshetin, Milos Valent, Peter Spissky & Heidi Powell, violin I
Maria Krestinskaya, Julie Andrijeski, Cynthia Roberts & Dagmar Valentová, violin II
Patrick Jordan, David Douglass & Laura Jeppesen, viola
Phoebe Carrai, Sarah Frieberg, Brent Wissick & Alice Robbins, ’cello
Jay Elfenbein, violone
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, lute
Maxine Eilander, harp
Erin Headley, viola da gamba
Kristian Bezuidenhout & Jörg Jacobi, harpsichord
Washington McClain, Geoffrey Burgess & Kathryn Montoya, oboe & recorder
Marilyn Boenau & Mathieu Lussier, bassoon
John Thiessen & Alexander Bonus, trumpet
Todd Manley, percussion

Dancers

Melinda Sullivan, Assistant Choreographer & Ballet Mistress
Tina Cassidy, Carlos Fittante, Tim Kaspar, Kaj Sylegård & Linda J. Tomko
Members of PALS Children’s Chorus directed by Johanna Hill Simpson

INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS

Camerata Trajectina
The Perfect and Well-Equipped Ship: Dutch Shanties from the time of Czar Peter the Great

Jérôme Hantaï & Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba
Duets for Bass Viol from England and Northern Germany

Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra directed by Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs
with guests Karina Gauvin, Ellen Hargis, Catherine Webster & Nell Snaidas
Nights at the Opera: Highlights from Beloved BEMF Opera Productions
*due to illness, Catherine Webster was unable to perform; Brenna J. Wells and Jayne Tankersley performed in her place.

Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
From Salzburg to St. Petersburg: A Fortepiano Travel Diary

Sequentia ensemble for medieval music directed by Benjamin Bagby
Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper

North German Organ Mini-Festival featuring Edoardo Bellotti, Hans Davidsson & William Porter
Fantasia in the Organ Music of the Renaissance and Baroque: An exploration of changing concepts of fantasia from Sweelinck to C.P.E. Bach

Three sessions:
The Organist as Contrapuntist: The “images of fantasia” as generating principles of improvised keyboard polyphony
The Organist as Preacher: Choral fantasia as an expression of piety
The Organist as Orator: The drama of stylus phantasticus in the eighteenth century

TALISMAN directed by Oleg Timofeyev & Anne Harley
Stesha! Gypsy Primadonna of 1820s Moscow

Solamente Naturali directed by Milos Valent
Waild and Krejzy: Secular Music in 1730s Slovakia

Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra directed by Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs
with guests Giuliano Carmignola, Matthias Maute & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Five Concerti and a Magnificat
*due to illness, Giuliano Carmignola was unable to perform; Phoebe Carrai, Andrey Reshetin, and Maria Krestinskaya performed in his place.

Ensemble européen William Byrd directed by Graham O’Reilly
Music in Scandinavia from the Düben Collection: Composers working in Denmark and Sweden in the 17th century

The Boston Camerata directed by Joel Cohen
Carmina Burana: Medieval songs from the Benediktbeuren manuscript (ca. 1230)

The King’s Noyse directed by David Douglass
Lust hab ich ghabt zur Musica: The High Art of German Renaissance Folk Music

LATE NIGHT CONCERTS

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir directed by Scott Metcalfe
Music for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and for his daughter Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)

Andrey Reshetin & Maria Kresintinskaya, Baroque violin and Peter Sykes, harpsichord
Music at the Russian Manor House in the Eighteenth Century

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Baroque lute
Lautengalanterie

Tragicomedia
Dueling Cantatas: The Italian Cantata in the hands of Mattheson and Handel

SYMPOSIA

Instrument Makers Symposium: Interpreting the Sounds of Original Instruments and Considerations of their Use and Presentation

Dance Workshops: Dances at the courts of German principalities

His and Her Opera Houses: A photo and acoustic tour of existing 18th-century opera houses

Rediscovering Boris Goudenow: Performance and Production Issues in German Baroque Opera

Expanding the Audience for Early and Baroque Music in the United States

Performing Baroque Music According to Mattheson: Revitalizing the Repertoire

MASTERCLASSES

Erin Headley, voice

Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs & Ellen Hargis, 17th-century accompanied solo song

Maxine Eilander, historic harp

William Porter, organ

Andrey Reshetin & Milo_ Valent, Baroque violin

Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord

Matthias Maute, recorder