New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The
Boston Early
Music Festival Chamber Opera Series presents a double bill of Neapolitan comic opera—Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo—on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 8pm and Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 3pm in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. Now in its seventh year, the BEMF Chamber Opera Series has become a "popular tradition among local early music fans" (The
Boston Globe) each Thanksgiving weekend.
"Did you ever wonder why Pergolesi's La serva padrona took the world by storm?" asks the BEMF Directorial Team of Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors, and Gilbert Blin, Stage Director. "This performance will answer your question! Frankly, Pergolesi's masterpiece has not been well served in modern performances. Our new production restores the full color, vitality, and comic genius of the original, with BEMF's effervescent Chamber Ensemble, a team of brilliant singing actors, and a troupe of commedia dell'arte players all in imaginative costumes."
Joining the BEMF Directorial Team is: Concertmaster Robert Mealy; Costume Designer Anna Watkins; Movement Coordinator Melinda Sullivan; and Lighting Designer Lenore Doxsee; the cast of four dynamic singers features:
Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Erica Schuller, soprano;
Douglas Williams, bass-baritone; and
Jesse Blumberg, bass-baritone.
Tickets are priced at $19, $38, $49, $66, and $125 and are available through the
Boston Early
Music Festival at 617-661-1812 or at WWW.BEMF.ORG, as well as through the Jordan Hall Box Office located at 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston.
Download artist photos at https://www.bemf.org/pages/press/images.htm
Behind the Scenes preview at: https://youtu.be/CkVvzM9BiRo
Recognized as the preeminent early music presenting organization in North America, the
Boston Early
Music Festival has been credited with securing Boston's reputation as "America's early music capital" (The
Boston Globe). Founded in 1981, the
Boston Early
Music Festival offers diverse programs and activities, including three Grammy-nominated opera recordings, an annual concert series that brings early music's brightest stars to the
Boston and New York concert stages, and a biennial week-long Festival and Exhibition that BBC3
Radio recently called "arguably the most important and influential Early
Music event in the world."
