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January 31, 2012 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival presents Richard Egarr, Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, in a solo harpsichord recital.

January 24, 2012 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival presents Grammy-nominated orchestra Europa Galante in music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and more.

January 12, 2012 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival presents the acclaimed musicians of Tragicomedia in a program of Early Handel cantatas.

December 2, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival presents celebrated a capella ensemble Stile Antico in a choral program for the holidays

November 14, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)

The Boston Early Music Festival Presents Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, the Fourth Annual Chamber Opera Series

November 1, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: The Boston Early Music Festival Presents its Fourth Annual Chamber Opera Series: A Double Bill of Charpentier

October 20, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival presents Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, in concert with Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor

September 27, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)

MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival opens its 2011–2012 Season with beloved soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and lutenist Jakob Lindberg

September 6, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2011–2012 Boston Concert Series: A Season of Triumphant Returns (updated)

June 6, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Fully Staged Opera Presented by Boston Early Music Festival – The North American Premiere of Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe

June 6, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
The Boston Early Music Festival Returns to the Berkshires for Two Extraordinary Opera Productions at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, June 24-27, 2011

May 31, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
Boston Early Music Festival and Executive Director Kathleen Fay to be Honored by Early Music America

May 2, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
The Boston Early Music Festival Announces the Full Schedule for the 2011 Festival & Exhibition, June 12–June 19 in Boston

March 22, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
MEDIA ALERT: Boston Early Music Festival concludes its 2010-2011 Season with the 22nd annual performance of The Tallis Scholars on April 1, 2011.

February 28, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: Sir Roger Norrington returns to the Boston Early Music Festival to conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on March 15, 2011.

February 16, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: Superstar fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout performs an all-Mozart program with the Boston Early Music Festival on Friday, February 25, 2011

February 2, 2011 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: Legendary chamber ensemble Il Giardino Armonico makes their Boston début with the Boston Early Music Festival on Saturday, February 19, 2011

December 22, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: New Chamber Ensemble Directed by Oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz, Symphonie Des Dragons, Makes World Début Performances with the Boston Early Music Festival in Boston and New York City

November 16, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
The Boston Early Music Festival Presents Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the Third Annual Chamber Opera Series

October 21, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: The Boston Early Music Festival Presents its Third Annual Chamber Opera Series: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

September 15, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Media Alert: British Vocal Ensemble Stile Antico Returns to Boston in the Opening Concert of the Boston Early Music Festival's 2010–2011 Concert Series

August 30, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Boston Early Music Festival Presents its 2010-2011 Concert Series in Boston

July 29, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2010-2011 Concerts at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City

June 4, 2010 (DOC) (PDF)
Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2011 Festival Operatic Centerpiece

May 12, 2010
Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2010-2011 Concert Series

Boston Early Music Festival 2010-2011 Concert Season Calendar Listing

November 24, 2009

Soprano Teresa Wakim to Replace Amanda Forsythe in Boston Early Music Festival's Upcoming Performance of Handel's Acis and Galatea

August 5, 2009

Boston Early Music Festival Opens 20th Anniversary Season with Blue Heron Renaissance Choir of Boston directed by Scott Metcalfe

July 9, 2009

BEMF Announces 2009-2010 Concert Season

Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2009-2010 Concerts at The Morgan Library in New York City

Boston Early Music Festival Presents Handel's Acis and Galatea - the original chamber version of 1718 -

OLDER RELEASES

Monteverdi's Poppea at the 2009 Festival

Monteverdi's Poppea at the Mahaiwe

BEMF Announces 2009 Festival Concert Lineup

Call for Fringe Concerts and Exhibitors at the 2009 Festival

BEMF Replaces Graupner's Antiochus with Monteverdi's Poppea

BEMF announces annual Chamber Opera Series

BEMF Releases 2008-2009 Concert Season Lineup

BEMF announces 2007 Festival Concerts

Organ events at 2007 Boston Early Music Festival

Psyché at the Mahaiwe

BEMF Accepting 2007 Exhibitor & Fringe Concert Applications

BEMF Introduces New York City Concert Series at the Morgan Library

2006-2007 Boston Early Music Festival Concerts Press Release

Psyché Directors and Cast Press Release

Ariadne Grammy Nomination Press Release