Boston Early Music Festival | 2022–2023 Season: Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse

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“The style of each composer may be more or less original; there is only one Bach, whose style is utterly original and utterly his own.”

—Johann Friedrich Reichardt on C. P. E. Bach in 1774

Published by The Packard Humanities Institute cpebach.org

Dear Friends,

We’re delighted to welcome you to the opening concert of our 33rd Season! Superstar countertenor Philippe Jaroussky returns to the BEMF stage with the stellar Ensemble Artaserse, in a dramatic and captivating program of opera arias and instrumental interludes. A rare favorite of BEMF audiences since his début at the 2011 Festival in Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, and his triumphant return in 2019 with soprano Amanda Forsythe and the BEMF Chamber Ensemble in La storia di Orfeo, a program of arias and duets built around the Orpheus myth, Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as sui generis among his generation of countertenors. The possessor of a phenomenal technique, impeccable musicianship, and an unflagging musical curiosity, his vast repertoire extends from the core of the Italian Seicento—the operas of Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, and Cavalli—through the Baroque to the brilliance of Vivaldi and Handel and beyond to Johann Christian Bach, to the French mélodie of the 19th and 20th centuries, and also to the music of today. On this occasion, Philippe and Ensemble Artaserse, which he founded in 2002, present a program of rarely heard 18th-century gems by Hasse, Piccinni, and Ferrandini, capped by stunning arias from Handel and Vivaldi.

We hope you enjoy the performance this evening, and that you will return for our three remaining 2022 programs, beginning exactly one week from tonight in this very room, when we welcome the award-winning Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis, directed by Lionel Meunier, in a vivid program of sacred music by Claudio Monteverdi centered around his Selva morale e spirituale. In addition, as a bonus, tonight’s attendees will be able to view a second program sung by Philippe Jaroussky, “Inspiration,” featuring liturgical and orchestral music by Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Pergolesi, performed in conjunction with the instrumentalists of Le Concert de la Loge, which has its virtual premiere two weeks from tonight.

Thank you for joining us this evening, and as always, please accept our heartfelt thanks for your continued support of and enthusiasm for the Boston Early Music Festival.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022

8PM | NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston

VOX LUMINIS

Lionel Meunier, director

MORAL AND SPIRITUAL FOREST

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2022

8PM | St. Paul Church, Cambridge

THE TALLIS SCHOLARS

Peter Phillips, director

HYMNS TO THE VIRGIN

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023

8PM | NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston

BACH COLLEGIUM JAPAN

RODERICK WILLIAMS, baritone

Masaaki Suzuki, director & harpsichord

ICH HABE GENUG: MUSIC OF BACH AND TELEMANN

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023

8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational

QUICKSILVER

Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, directors

THE (VERY) FIRST VIENNESE SCHOOL

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023

8PM | NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston

CHIAROSCURO QUARTET

SHADES OF MINOR: BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT, AND MENDELSSOHN

SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023

8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational

ENSEMBLE CASTOR

MIREILLE LEBEL, mezzo-soprano

Rodolfo Richter, leader

VIVALDI: FORCES OF NATURE—LOVE OF NATURE

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023

8PM | St. Paul Church, Cambridge

STILE ANTICO

ENGLAND’S NIGHTINGALE: MUSIC OF WILLIAM BYRD

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2022–2023 NAMED GIFT SPONSORSHIPS

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals for their leadership support of our 2022–2023 Season:

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of the October 2022 performance by Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, and Ensemble Artaserse

David M. Kozak and Anne Pistell

Sponsors of the December 2022 performance by The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, director in memory of their parents

Bernice K. Chen

Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director for the November 2022 Chamber Opera Series Production

Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway

Sponsors of Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, for his October 2022 performance

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Boson Early Music Fesival PRESENTS

Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor Ensemble Artaserse Baroque Gems

Sinfonia in B-flat major

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini Allegro — Adagio — Allegro (ca. 1710–1791)

From Il Demofoonte

Johann Adolf Hasse

Recitativo: Ma che vi fece, o stelle – Aria: Sperai vicino il lido (1699–1783) Aria: Misero pargoletto

Trio Sonata in E minor, Op. 2, No. 1 Hasse Largo — Presto — Siciliano — Vivace

Gelido in ogni vena

Ferrandini

From Catone in Utica Niccolò Piccinni Recitativo: Che giurai! Che promisi! – Aria: Che legge spietata (1728–1800)

B BRIEF PAUSE b Kindly Remain Seated

From Giustino, HWV 37

George Frideric Handel Aria: Se parla nel mio cor (1685–1759)

From Rinaldo, HWV 7 Handel

Sinfonia Aria: Cara sposa

The Boston Early Music Festival thanks DAVID HALSTEAD and JAY SANTOS for their leadership support of tonight’s performance by Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse and

DONALD E. VAUGHAN and LEE S. RIDGWAY for their leadership support of tonight’s performance by Philippe Jaroussky

Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156

Antonio Vivaldi Allegro — Adagio — Allegro (1678–1741)

From Il Farnace, RV 711

Vivaldi Aria: Gelido in ogni vena

From Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727 Vivaldi Aria: Se in ogni guardo

Double-manual French harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1991, after Donzelague, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Friday, October 28, 2022 at 8pm

New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts

ENSEMBLE ARTASERSE

Raul Orellana, violin I

Jose Manuel Navarro, violin II Marco Massera, viola Ruth Verona, violoncello Yoko Nakamura, harpsichord Josias Rodriguez Gandara, theorbo Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor & direction Program subject to change.

Ensemble Artaserse’s international tours are supported by CNM.

PROGRAM NOTES

The eighteenth century is rightly considered the era of the triumphant opera seria. With the exception of France, all of musical Europe pulsated with the virtuosic displays of the sacred masters whose art dictated much of the operatic transformation of the time. The legendary Farinelli was not the only one, and other stars enchanted the theaters: Carestini, Caffarelli, Nicolini, and Senesino deployed phenomenal technique that we can enjoy from the music written for them.

It would be unfair to forget the role played by the librettists in the prodigious development of the opera seria, first and foremost Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), to whom most of the texts sung in this concert are due. Metastasio, whose real name was Pietro Trapassi, established a poetic model that had a decisive influence for decades. Thus, when Mozart composed his final opera, La clemenza di Tito (1791), he turned to Metastasio’s text, which had already been used by, at least, Caldara and Hasse (1735), Gluck (1752), and Galuppi (1760). Another famous example, Siroe, re di Persia, were illustrated in sound by Vinci (1726), Sarro and Porpora (1727), Handel (1728), and Hasse (1733). All the great composers of the Baroque period and many of those of the Classical era thus frequented Metastasio’s literature.

undoubtedly more languid and voluptuous than those of Venice or Rome.

Niccolò Piccinni was one of its last and greatest representatives. His rivalry with Gluck is bestknown, and is somewhat artificial: after a glorious career in Rome, Piccinni moved to Paris in 1776 at the same time that Gluck was reforming opera by turning his back on vocal artifice in order to rediscover the truth of feeling through a less abundant, more direct art. Between 1775 and 1779, the Quarrel of the Gluckistes and the Piccinnistes raged without any real winner between two composers who, in truth, admired each other.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Engraving by François Morellon la Cave (1725)

Piccinni traveled throughout Europe: it was in Mannheim that his Catone in Utica was premiered in 1770, commissioned by Prince-Elector Karl Theodor, with the great tenor Anton Raaf (future creator of Mozart’s Idomeneo) in the title role. It is probable that Piccinni never heard his work in Mannheim, having composed it in Naples in a version where Catone was almost certainly a bass: Raaf went to Naples especially to work with Piccinni, who wrote him entirely new arias.

Singers or composers, the Italians travelled all over Europe to establish the domination of their school. In Italy itself, several aesthetics were asserting themselves, with Naples as the main focus, where both Farinelli and his teacher, Nicola Porpora, were born. The Neapolitan school, whose influence lasted well into the eighteenth century, favored a sometimesextravagant virtuosity and harmonies that were

Further north, Venice was also a thriving musical center, with La Serenissima opening the first public theaters in the time of Claudio Monteverdi. In the eighteenth century, Antonio Vivaldi attracted music lovers from all over the continent thanks to the concerts he organized with his students at the Ospedale della Pietà, a hospice for orphan girls whom Vivaldi literally transformed into virtuosos. But the “Prete Rosso” (‘Red Priest’) was also a businessman who gave his operas from 1713 onward at the Teatro Sant’Angelo—he remained attached to this establishment throughout his life. Vivaldi’s

fame went far beyond the Venetian region: his works were premiered in Rome, Florence, and Milan, not to mention Prague and Vienna. He was on his way to Vienna when he died in July 1741. Vivaldi’s vocal music reflected his instrumental production: limpid harmonies but capable of lightning chromaticisms, staggering expressive efficiency, and incredibly difficult while remaining very vocal (he also wrote for exceptional divi and dive). In “Gelido in ogni vena,” from the opera Il Farnace (1727), the voice literally trembles with fear, while the strings draw icy tremors that seem to spring directly from “L’Hiver” of the Four Seasons. Conversely, a winged lightness unfolds in “Se in ogni guardo,” an aria from Orlando finto pazzo (1714), a work that differs considerably from the famous Orlando furioso in 1727.

The text of “Gelido in ogni vena” was also set to music as an independent aria by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, but this time as taken from the Metastasio opera Siroe, re di Persia (1726). Vivaldi’s subsequent incorporation of the aria text, slightly modified, in Il Farnace, an opera with a libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini, is a sign that the librettos of the time were not impervious to additions and modifications according to the needs of the moment, or even the whims of the singers. Although Ferrandini moved to Munich at a very young age, employed as an oboist by the Bavarian court at the age of twelve, he was another product of the Venetian school. His fame was indirect: the sacred cantata Il Pianto di Maria (1739) was long attributed to Handel, but research in the 1990s showed that Ferrandini was actually the author. All of Ferrandini’s operas were produced in Munich, where he was held in high esteem; he was commissioned to write the music for the coronation of Emperor Charles VII in 1742, and his Catone in Utica (a libretto by Metastasio, which he set to music after Vinci, Torri, and Vivaldi) opened the Residenztheater in 1753. A few years later he returned to his native country and retired to Padua. In 1771 he was visited by the Mozarts, father and son, who greatly admired his work.

With their multitude of princely courts and autonomous cities with theaters, the Germanic countries represented an essential professional

reservoir for Italian musicians. The Hamburg Opera, in particular, enjoyed incomparable prestige thanks to the influence of its musical director, Reinhard Keiser, himself a brilliant composer whose superb production is now being discovered. Not surprisingly, German geniuses often made the trip to Italy, drawing abundantly on innovations from the south; two of them established themselves as giants of Italian opera.

Born near Hamburg, Johann Adolf Hasse was a tenor hired by Keiser for the Opera company; he quickly took off and was taught by Porpora in Naples where he settled in 1722. He adopted his master’s style entirely, with a formidable vocal virtuosity and voluptuous chromaticism. Hasse also met Farinelli (who became a friend and appreciated his music above all else), composing for all the great voices of the time, in particular Faustina Bordoni, one of the legends of the Baroque era, whom he married in 1730. Hasse also established a privileged collaboration with Metastasio and his career spread throughout Europe, his dozens of operas earning him phenomenal fame. He was one of the founders of pre-classicism, uniting Neapolitan vocality with an orchestral density no doubt inherited from his German origins.

In 1748, he composed Il Demofoonte for the Dresden Opera. The libretto was one of Metastasio’s most famous and had already been set to music many times, notably by Caldara, Vivaldi, and Gluck. Faustina Bordoni sang the role of Dircea and the great Carestini the role of Timante who, in the arias “Misero pargoletto” and especially “Sperai vicino il lido” with its contrasting sequences, was able to display his technical perfection, agility, and length of breath combined, without forgetting the art of the musical phrase which made his glory.

The other German giant of the opera seria was Georg Friedrich Händel, or George Frideric Handel in his anglicized version, for the composer spent most of his life in London and adopted English nationality. Like Hasse, Handel passed through the Hamburg Opera where, at the age of nineteen, he wrote his first opera score, Almira (1705). Divided between

Venice, Naples, and especially Rome, his stay in Italy (1706–1710) confirmed his passion for Italian opera, and Handel met with a success that earned him the nickname “Il Caro Sassone” (the dear Saxon).

In Rome, he developed his musical language in contact with musicians employed by the great aristocratic families, such as Alessandro Scarlatti and especially Arcangelo Corelli. Corelli’s influence was essential: the Olympian harmonies and the nobility of Handel’s singing were born in the crucible of Corellian art. Even in the dramatic paroxysms of his operas, Handel retained an intrinsic bearing that set him apart from his Neapolitan colleagues.

Handel established himsel in London in stages.

In 1711, his opera Rinaldo, with Nicolini in the title role, was an extraordinary success. To this day, Rinaldo is among his most famous works, and the somber “Cara sposa,” in which Rinaldo mourns the fate of his beloved Almirena, kidnapped by the magician Armida, displays Handel’s incredible melodic

ARTIST PROFILES

Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as one of the major singers in the international musical world as confirmed by the French Victoires de la Musique (“Revelation Artiste Lyrique” in 2004, “Artiste lyrique de l’année” in 2007 and 2010) and at the Echo Klassik Awards in Germany in 2008 in Munich (Singer of the Year), in 2009 in Dresden (with L’Arpeggiata), and again in 2016 in Berlin.

An impressive mastery of vocal technique allows performances full of nuance and vocal acrobatics. Philippe Jaroussky’s vast repertoire of the Baroque era ranges from the refinements

and dramatic

instincts. The reception given to Rinaldo convinced him that the English public was ready to receive Italian innovations: Handel had found his life’s purpose and, from 1720 onward, worked obstinately to impose the opera seria in England, composing immense masterpieces— Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Ariodante, and many others. Gradually, however, the enthusiasm of the early years faded, as English music lovers grew tired of the clichés attached to Italian opera and resented the capricious attitude of the great singers. The composer’s art never wavered: Il Giustino (1737) was produced in a period of extreme financial difficulty but was praised for its effort to modernize musical language, the aria “Se parla nel mio cor” retaining Handel’s supreme musical refinement.

Handel was finally forced to give up, but only to start again: with Messiah in 1741, the time of the English oratorio had arrived, and Handel brought this genre to unheard-of heights. n

of the Italian Seicento with Monteverdi, Sances, and Rossi, to the staggering brilliance of Handel and Vivaldi, the latter recently being one of his most performed composers. Philippe is also tirelessly at the forefront of musical research and made strong contributions to the discovery—or rediscovery—of composers such as Caldara, Porpora, Steffani, Telemann, and Johann Christian Bach.

Lately, he has also explored the very different repertoire of French melodies accompanied by pianist Jérôme Ducros. He has recently proposed his own vision of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été with performances at the

Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Increasingly captivated by contemporary works, Jaroussky performed a song cycle composed by Marc-André Dalbavie from the sonnets of Louise Labé. He premiered Kaija Saariaho’s opera Only the Sound Remains, specifically written for his voice, at Nederlande Opera Ballet in Amsterdam in March 2016.

Philippe Jaroussky has had the pleasure of collaborating with some of the best Baroque ensembles. He has performed to high acclaim in the most prestigious festivals and concert halls around the world.

In 2002, he founded Ensemble Artaserse, which currently performs throughout Europe and across the globe.

In January 2017, Philippe inaugurated the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He was invited as its first artist in residence. The 2019–2020 season marked the twentieth anniversary of his career with a number of major events such as the inclusion of his statue at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the publication of the biographical book Seule compte la musique, and the release of the three-CD anthology Passion.

March 2021 saw Philippe Jaroussky’s début as a conductor at the head of his Artaserse ensemble with the production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio Il primo omicidio. This program was performed at venues including

the Salzburg Festival and Opéra de Montpellier, which will become the residence of Philippe and Artaserse for the next three seasons.

He has continued as a conductor in 2022, with numerous concerts in Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Budapest, and at the Epau and Halle Festivals.

At the end of May and beginning of June 2022, in Paris and Montpellier, Philippe conducted his first opera from the pit, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, with a superlative cast of singers including Sabine Devieilhe, Gaëlle Arquez, Franco Fagioli, Carlo Vistoli, and Lucile Richardot.

During the 2022–2023 season, Philippe conducts the stage production of Sartorio’s Orfeo at Opéra de Montpellier. He performs the role of Ruggiero in a production of Handel’s Alcina alongside Cecilia Bartoli in Monte Carlo. In addition, Philippe is in recital across the Atlantic with guitarist Thibaut Garcia at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato and at Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and with Les Violons du Roy and MarieNicole Lemieux in Montreal and Quebec City. He joins Artaserse for concerts in Boston, San Diego, and Toronto, and performs with L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Philippe Jaroussky has been an exclusive artist with Erato/Warner Classics for many years and has received numerous awards for his outstanding discography.

In March 2017, a project dear to his heart came to fruition: the Academy Philippe Jaroussky. In its first five years, the Academy has supported young musicians suffering from cultural isolation, through original, extensive, and demanding teaching.

In 2019, Philippe Jaroussky was appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. n

In 2002, after many collaborations in the most prestigious Baroque ensembles in France and Europe, several musicians decided to form Ensemble Artaserse. Those friends were Christine Plubeau (viola da gamba), Claire Antonini (theorbo), Yoko Nakamura (harpsichord and organ) and, of course, Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor). In October 2002, they gave a first and highly acclaimed concert in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris of the Musiche a voce sola by the Italian composer Benedetto Ferrari. This music was immediately recorded and released by the French label Ambroisie, and received a number of very prestigious awards, including Diapasondecouverte by the magazine Diapason, 10 de Classica-Repertoire, and Timbre de diamant by the magazine Opera International.

Over the twenty years since, Artaserse has established a reputation as one of the most exciting period instrument ensembles. With an ability to adapt to numerous repertoires including music by Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel, the ensemble has been invited to perform in the most prestigious venues,

series, and festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and around the world with great success.

In recent seasons, Artaserse has collaborated with many great singers including countertenor Andreas Scholl, contraltos Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Nathalie Stutzmann, and sopranos Cecilia Bartoli and Emőke Baráth.

For the first time, in May and June of 2022, Ensemble Artaserse and Philippe Jaroussky were in the pit for the stage production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra de Montpellier. They will be in residence at the Opéra de Montpellier in the following seasons.

In addition to Ferrari’s Musiche a voce sola, the ensemble’s discography includes two widely acclaimed albums for Virgin Classics, Virtuoso cantatas by Vivaldi and Beata Vergine with 17th-century Italian music devoted to the Virgin Mary (Timbre de Platine from Opera International). Artaserse has recorded several albums for Erato/Warner Classics: Pietà, which explores Vivaldi’s sacred music; The Handel Album, which combines famous arias with unpublished operas by the composer; Ombra mai fu, which opens the doors to the fascinating world of Cavalli’s operas; and La Vanità del Mondo, a CD that gathers true sacred jewels from the 17th and 18th centuries. For the recently released album Dualità, on which Emőke Baráth sings the great arias of Handel’s operas, Philippe Jaroussky makes his début as the conductor of a recording. n

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

Ma che vi fece / Sperai vicino il lido — Hasse

Ma che vi fece, o stelle, la povera Dircea, che tante unite sventure contro lei?

Voi, che inspiraste i casti affetti alle nostr’alme; voi, che al pudico imeneo fosti presenti, defendetelo, o numi; io mi confondo.

M’oppresse il colpo a segno, che il cor mancommi, e si smarrì l’ingegno.

Sperai vicino il lido Credei calmato il vento; Ma trasportar mi sento Fra le tempeste ancor.

E da uno scoglio infido Mentre salvar mi voglio, Urto in un altro scoglio Del primo assai peggior.

Misero pargoletto — Hasse Misero pargoletto

Il tuo destin non sai. Ah non gli dite mai Qual era il genitor.

Come in un punto, oh dio, Tutto cambiò d’aspetto! Voi foste il mio diletto, Voi siete il mio terror.

Gelido in ogni vena — Ferrandini

Gelido in ogni vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue. L’ombra del figlio esangue M’ingombra di terror.

E per maggior mia pena Veggio che fui crudele

A un’anima fedele, A un innocente cor.

But what has she done to you, O stars, the poor Dircea, that so many of you join together in misfortunes against her!

You, who inspired the chaste affections of our souls; you, who at the modest wedding were present, defended it, O Gods; I am confused. The blow struck me deeply, so that my heart failed me and my skill was lost. I hoped the shore was nearby; I thought the winds had calmed; But I feel myself

Amidst the storms again.

And when, from a perfidious rock, I want to safeguard myself, I am hurt by another one Much worse than the first.

—Pietro Metastasio

Unhappy child, You do not know your destiny. Ah! never tell him Who his father was.

How in an instant, oh God, Everything seemed changed! You were my beloved, You are now my greatest fear. Like ice in every vein, I feel my blood flow. The shade of my lifeless son Paralyzes me with terror. And worse than that pain, I see that I was cruel

To a loyal soul, To an innocent heart.

Che giurai! Che promisi! / Che legge spietata — Piccinni

Che giurai! che promisi! a qual comando ubbidir mi conviene! e chi mai vide più misero di me?

La mia tiranna quasi su gli occhi miei si vanta infida; ed io l’armi le porgo, onde m’uccida.

Che legge spietata, Che sorte crudele D’un alma piagata, D’un core fedele, Servire, soffrire, Tacere e penar.

Se poi l’infelice Domanda mercede, Si sprezza, si dice Che troppo richiede Che impari ad amar.

Se parla nel mio cor — Handel

Se parla nel mio cor Intrepiedo valor Voce è del Fato.

Nè degg’io disprezzar Ma lieto io vo’ ascoltar Suono sì grato.

Anonymous; adapted from Pietro Pariati, after Nicolò Beregan’s Il Giustino

Cara sposa — Handel

Cara sposa, amante cara, Dove sei?

Deh! Ritorna a’ pianti miei. Cara sposa, amante cara, dove sei?

Del vostro Erebo sull’ara Colla face del mio sdegno Io vi sfido o spirti rei!

What I swore! What I promised!

What command I must now obey!

And who ever saw me more wretched?

My tyrant, almost before my eyes, vaunts her faithlessness, and I offer her the weapons with which to kill me.

How merciless is the punishment, How cruel the fate Of an afflicted soul, A faithful heart, To serve, to suffer, To be silent and to grieve.

If the wretch

Then asks for mercy, He is scorned, and is told That he asks too much And must learn how to love.

If intrepid valor Is speaking to my heart, It is the voice of fate.

Far from disregarding it, I must listen joyfully To its welcome sound.

Dear bride, dear beloved, Where are you?

I beg you, come back, hear my tears! Dear bride, dear beloved, where are you?

From the altar of the dark Erebus, With the fire of my scorn, I challenge you to appear, O evil spirits!

Gelido in ogni vena — Vivaldi

Gelido in ogni vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue. L’ombra del figlio esangue M’ingombra di terror.

E per maggior mia pena Vedo che fui crudele

A un’anima innocente Al core del mio cor.

Se in ogni guardo — Vivaldi

Se in ogni guardo Tu vibri un dardo, Mille alme e mille Con le pupille Potrai piagar.

Ma se adirata Di brando armata Bellezza vaga Cerchi far piaga In vano tenti di trionfar.

Like ice in every vein, I feel my blood flow.

The shade of my lifeless son Paralyzes me with terror.

And worse than that pain, I see that I was cruel

To an innocent soul, To the heart of my heart.

If with each glance You throw a dart, A thousand, thousand souls Would you wound With your eyes.

But if in anger You seek to hurt A charming beauty With armed weapons, In vain will you attempt to triumph.

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AMANDA FORSYTHE IN BEMF’S 2013 PRODUCTION OF HANDEL’S ALMIRA PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

Boson Early Music Fesival

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.

The twenty-first biennial Boston Early Music Festival in June 2021 took place virtually, and featured a video presentation of André Campra’s extraordinary  Le Carnaval de Venise  from the June 2017 Festival. The twenty-second Festival, in June 2023, will have as its centerpiece Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which will feature the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan.

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 MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series 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 Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, and most recently a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city 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.

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; Jean-Baptiste 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 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 sixcity 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.

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, which always include the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and which often feature unique, once-in-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

A STANDING OVATION FOR LA STORIA DI ORFEO IN NOVEMBER 2019

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The Zucker Family

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Anonymous (12) Greg Abbe Maria Adams Martha Ahrens Druid Errant D.T. Allan-Gorey Tom & Judy Anderson Allen, in honor of Kathy & Maria Julie Andrijeski & J. Tracy Mortimore Renee Ashley

Peter Bals

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Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Day Kate Delaney Richard DesRosiers

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Dewitt

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Kathryn Disney Tamar & Jeremy Kaim Doniger Priscilla Drucker

Laura Duffy John W. Ehrlich Karen M. El-Chaar, Esq. Mark Elenko

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Roger & Mary Jane Kelsey Joseph J. Kesselman, Jr. David P. Kiaunis John N. Kirk Rebecca Klein Pat Kline Kathryn Kling George Kocur Crystal Komm & Christopher Potter Ellen Kranzer

Benjamin Krepp & Virginia Webb Lisa Kugelman Bob Kunzendorf & Liz Ritvo

Peter A. Lans

Tom Law David A. Leach & Laurie J. LaChapelle William Lebow

Alison Leslie Ricardo & Marla Lewitus

Rebecca Lightcap Laura Loehr Mary Maarbjerg

Dr. & Mrs. Bruce C. MacIntyre

Dr. Arnold Matlin & Dr. Margaret Matlin, Ph.D. Sally Mayer Lee McClelland George McKee

Mr. Daniel P. Melish, in memory of William Paul Melish Gerald & Susan Metz

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Margo Miller

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Rodney & Barbara Myrvaagnes Myrna Nachman

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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 Xerox Foundation

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