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BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima, and Le Consort

BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima on February 3 and the quartet Le Consort on February 23, both in Cambridge, MA ARTIST: Opera PrimaAmanda Forsythe, sopranoCristiano Contadin, directorAndrea Inghisciano, cornetto; Mauro Spinazzè, violin; Marta Graziolino, triple harp; Gianluca Geremia, chitarrone; Cristiano Contadin, viola da gamba WHEN: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 7:30pm ETThe Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New […]

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An Early-Music Climate Activist on Disrupting Performances

Guest editorial: We are in the midst of a global mass extinction caused by a rapid change in climate. The scale of these problems means that the crisis cannot be addressed without action from the world’s most powerful governments — and they have utterly failed to respond. It’s an attitude of enjoying order (and short-term profits) more than pursuing justice. This comes despite years of scientists’ and citizens’ good-faith efforts to work within the system. To shake our friends’ complacency was our goal in disrupting the Met Opera… 

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PIFFARO ANNOUNCES CONCERTS, WORKSHOPS AND MORE FOR SPRING 2024

Piffaro’s next concert performances – February 11 in Tucson, March 15-17 in Philadelphia and Wilmington, and streaming online March 29 to April 11 – will transport audiences to the court of Charles VIII of France (“the Affable”) and into the pages of the “Gutenberg Bible of music,” the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. GRAMMY Award-winning tenor James

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Portland Baroque Orchestra Presents the US-premiere of Dinner with Handel

This newly-devised opera pasticcio by Librettist Stephen Pettitt and Portland Baroque Orchestra’s Artistic Director Julian Perkins set for February 10 &11 Portland, Ore. — Portland Baroque Orchestra kicks off 2024 with the North American Premiere of a new opera pasticcio Dinner with Handel, February 10 & 11. ‘Pasticcio’ in Italian is a kind of pie,

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2023 EMA Summit

Making Connections We look forward to gathering the early-music community as we host our first in-person Summit in Boston, MA, October 24-26, 2023. The theme of EMA’s first in-person Summit, Making Connections, celebrates the many ways our community comes together to share and grow, in all its cultural richness and variety. More than 20 thought-provoking

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Life on the Streets

In a revealing look into the lives of ‘ordinary’ folks in 17th and 18th c. Germany, author Tanya Kevorkian taps a wealth of sources that detail city life, from religious beliefs to weddings to the rhythms and rules of town watchmen. With compassion and wisdom, the author notes that historians who look at street life “have to some degree replicated the perspective of the authorities.”

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The Boston Early Music Festival presents The Dragon of Wantley

The Grammy-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series presents a rollicking 1737 masterpiece—John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley—on Thanksgiving weekend in Boston with additional performances in Miami and Troy, NY Cambridge, MA – The GRAMMY Award-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns on Thanksgiving weekend with an all-new production that’s Monty Python meets Handel

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Voice & Viol Ensemble Celebrates the Historic Lupo Family

PRESS CONTACT Ashley Mulcahy, Co-Director Lyracle lyraclemusic@gmail.com PHOTOS & Ticket QR Codes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lmTbOwwpwG6GAcbVITbWe6V3aArKo5wo?usp=sharing Voice & Viol Ensemble Celebrates the Historic Lupo Family Lyracle Presents Exodus & Evolution One family, a hundred years of musical excellence! A multigenerational family of Jewish musicians, the Lupo’s exodus from Iberia, migration to Northern Italy, and recruitment to England coincided with key developments in the evolution of

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Alkemie premieres Pentiment LIVE – Early Music meets Xbox

A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie explores and shares the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past as they resonate with and challenge our current expectations. Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library,

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