Boston Baroque will rejoice its fiftieth yr with a season led by founding music director Martin Pearlman. Season highlights embrace a return to Beethoven’s “Ode to Pleasure” No. 9, the beloved vacation traditions of Handel’s Messiah and New 12 months’s Eve celebration, Vivaldi’s The 4 Seasons and Handel’s Silete Venti, and Mozart’s dramatic. the opera Don Giovanni starring Sidney Outlaw and Susanna Phillips as Donna Anna.
“This upcoming season of Boston Baroque’s fiftieth yr will likely be a grand celebration of main milestones from our previous,” says Founding Music Director Martin Pearlman, “together with Beethoven’s Ninth and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, in addition to some wonderful music that now we have not carried out earlier than. I sit up for bringing an thrilling season to our in-person viewers in addition to to our rising on-line viewers all over the world.”
“Even after 50 years, Boston Baroque continues to develop and increase,” says Govt Director Jennifer Ritvo Hughes. “The season options new repertoire (Biber’s Battalia amongst others), a brand new venue for our opera on the Cutler Majestic Theatre, home debuts for Eric Owens, Michele Bradley, Roderick Williams and Karim Sulayman, and our first ever journey to Prague. Our new endeavors is predicated on our long-standing dedication to this music – Boston Baroque gave the American instrument-instrument premiere of Don Giovanni in 1986, and we’re delighted to return to it in our fiftieth yr.”
SEASON 2023-2024
Boston Baroque’s 5 live performance season will likely be introduced in individual at GBH’s Calderwood Studio, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Corridor, Harvard College’s Sanders Theater and Emerson Faculty’s Cutler Majestic Theatre, and can stream on-line to a worldwide viewers on IDAGIO Live shows. Season tickets at the moment are on sale for the 2023-2024 season, and single tickets will likely be on sale all through the summer season.
The season opens on the Thirteenth-Fifteenth. October with Beethoven’s “Ode to Pleasure” Symphony No. 9 with soloists, soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, tenor William Burden and bass-baritone Eric Owens, making his Boston Baroque debut. The world-renowned soloists are joined by Boston Baroque’s wonderful refrain and orchestra, all led by founding music director Martin Pearlman. This system begins with Beethoven’s “Coriolan” Overture and “Elegiac Track”.
The season opener will convey the complete Beethoven program on tour to all three of our musical houses in Boston and our digital streaming dwelling on IDAGIO. The Oct. 13 efficiency will likely be held at Harvard College’s Sanders Theater; the October 14 efficiency will likely be held at GBH’s Calderwood Studio and streamed dwell on IDAGIO Live shows; and the October 15 efficiency will likely be held on the NEC’s Jordan Corridor.
Boston Baroque returns to its December vacation traditions of presenting Handel’s Messiah and a New 12 months’s Eve live performance. Messiah will characteristic soprano Amanda Forsythe and mezzo Tamara Mumford returning to Boston Baroque, whereas tenor Karim Sulayman and baritone Roderick Williams will make their debuts. Performances of Handel’s Messiah happen on 2 December at GBH’s Calderwood Studio and on 3 December on the NEC’s Jordan Corridor, with the efficiency on 2 December being streamed dwell on IDAGIO Live shows.
The New 12 months’s Eve program will embrace Handel’s “Let the Vivid Seraphim” and “Everlasting Supply of Mild Devine” with Sonja Tengblad, soprano, and Justin Bland, trumpet, Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2, Biber’s Partita No. 1 and Battaglia, and Boyce’s Symphony No. 1. This system will likely be held in GBH’s Calderwood Studio on New 12 months’s Eve, the place it’s going to concurrently stream dwell on IDAGIO Live shows, and within the Sanders Theater on New 12 months’s Day.
In March, Boston Baroque returns to Vivaldi’s The 4 Seasons with the GRAMMY-nominated concertmaster Christina Day Martinson along with Händel’s Silete Venti with soprano Amanda Forsythe. The performances happen on 15 March at 20.00 in GBH’s Calderwood Studio and streamed on-line at IDAGIO Live shows, and on 16 March at 20.00 within the NEC’s Jordan Corridor.
The season closes with a brand new manufacturing of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, a return to the enduring opera that Boston Baroque gave the American interval efficiency premiere in 1986. Performances happen on Friday, April 26 at 19.30 and Sunday April 28 at 15, each held on the Cutler Majestic Theater at Emerson Faculty, a brand new venue for the group. The efficiency on Friday, April 26 will likely be streamed dwell on IDAGIO Live shows.
Conductor Martin Pearlman is joined by a star-studded solid on this modernized model of the title character’s adventures and loss of life. Baritone Sidney Outlaw makes his position debut as Don Giovanni, alongside Metropolitan Opera star Susanna Phillips as Donna Anna. Michelle Bradley as Donna Elvira and Patrick Carfizzi as Leporello make their Boston Baroque debuts. Returning to the Boston Baroque stage are Maya Kherani as Zerlina, David McFerrin as Masetto, Nick Phan as Don Ottavio and Kevin Deas because the Commendatore.
Boston Baroque’s interval string chamber ensemble, X-tet, will current a sequence of three concert events. The primary program will likely be held on Friday 3 November at 19.30 and Sunday 5 November at 15.00, and the second will likely be held on Friday 16 February at 19.30 and Saturday 17 February at 19.30, each at Lyman Property in Waltham, MA, a historic New England property. The ultimate program will likely be held on Thursday 30 Could at 7:30pm at GBH’s Yawkey Theater.
Boston Baroque may even renew its partnership with the Lobkowicz Collections, one in every of Europe’s oldest and best personal collections of music archives, culminating in a world patron tour of the Collections in Prague in March 2024. Boston Baroque will carry out within the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Citadel throughout its week-long keep, together with the efficiency of the world premiere of a musical work taken from the Lobkowicz archives. Patrons can be part of Boston Baroque for this immersive week of musical performances, cultural excursions and extra.
Boston Baroque may even proceed to supply a season-long slate of digital programming with leaders in baroque and classical music, together with in partnership with the Lobkowicz Collections.
All streaming performances will likely be out there to look at on-demand on IDAGIO Live shows for 30 days after their debut.
BOSTON BAROQUE AT 50
Boston Baroque’s fiftieth 12 months continues a big milestone for North America’s first everlasting baroque orchestra. The Boston Baroque was the primary instrumental orchestra to obtain a significant recording contract, producing 26 business recordings over the previous 50 years. The group was the primary instrumental orchestra to carry out at Los Angeles’ Disney Corridor, San Juan’s Casals Competition, and quite a few festivals in america and overseas. Boston Baroque has given a number of American interval instrument premieres, together with Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and Boston’s first full cycle of Monteverdi’s three surviving operas.
Because the group continues to develop, Boston Baroque is happy to welcome Assistant Conductor Filippo Ciabatti to the expanded inventive crew, together with Music Director Martin Pearlman and Director of Dwell Streams and Inventive Planning Matthew Principe. A local of Florence, Italy, Filippo Ciabatti is the Director of Orchestral and Choral Applications on the Hopkins Heart for the Arts, Dartmouth Faculty, and the Inventive Director of the Higher Valley Baroque Ensemble. As conductor, Mr. Ciabatti collaborated with artists together with Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim, baritone Nathan Gunn, cellist Gabriel Cabezas, pianist Sally Pinkas, flutist Luciano Tristaino and mandolinist Carlo Aonzo. Mr. Ciabatti holds superior levels in piano, choral conducting and orchestral conducting from Italy and the US.
Subscriptions are on sale now, beginning at $50, and have 4 tiers with in-person, digital and hybrid choices.. Particular person single tickets vary from $25-$175, and dwell stream tickets begin at $9 and will likely be out there for buy all through the summer season. All could be bought on the Boston Baroque web site at baroque.boston or by calling (617) 987-8600.
ABOUT BOSTON BAROQUE
The six-time GRAMMY-nominated Boston Baroque is the primary everlasting baroque orchestra established in North America and is broadly thought of, in accordance with Fanfare Journal, to be “one of many world’s main instrumental bands of the interval.” The ensemble produces vigorous, emotional, ground-breaking performances of Baroque and Classical works for right this moment’s audiences carried out on devices and utilizing efficiency strategies that mirror the eras through which the music was composed.
Boston Baroque has expanded its attain globally by means of its partnership with IDAGIO, the world’s main classical music streaming service. Its 2021-2022 season was the primary full season of a baroque orchestra streaming on the platform, gathering digital audiences from all over the world 5 continents (North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia) and over 17 nations.
Based in 1973 because the “Banchetto Musicale” by music director Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque’s orchestra consists of a number of the best interval instrumentalists in america and is usually joined by the ensemble’s skilled refrain and by world-class instrumental and vocal soloists from across the globe. The ensemble has carried out at main music facilities throughout america and not too long ago appeared in Poland on the 2015 Beethoven Competition with sold-out performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers in Warsaw and Handel’s Messiah in Katowice.
Boston Baroque reaches a world viewers with its twenty-six acclaimed recordings. In 2012, the ensemble grew to become the primary American orchestra to document with the extremely regarded British audiophile label Linn Data, and its launch of The Creation obtained essential acclaim. In April 2014, the orchestra recorded Monteverdi’s not often carried out opera, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, which was launched on Linn Data and obtained two nominations on the 2016 GRAMMY Awards.
Boston Baroque’s recordings have obtained six GRAMMY Award nominations: its 1992 launch of Handel’s Messiah, the 1998 launch of Monteverdi’s Vespers from 1610, the 2000 launch of Bach’s Mass in B minor, the 2015 launch of Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in 2018 and the discharge of the 2018 Biber’s Thriller Sonatas.
BOSTON BAROQUE 2023-2024 CONCERT SEASON AT A GLANCE
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Pleasure”
Heidi Stober, soprano
Daniela Mack, mezzo-soprano
William Burden, tenor
Eric Owens, bass
BEETHOVEN: Overture “Coriolan”.
BEETHOVEN: Elegiac music
13 October 2023 at 3 p.m
Sanders Theatre, Harvard College (Cambridge)
14 October 2023 at 20.00*
GBH Calderwood Studio (Brighton)
*Efficiency streamed dwell on IDAGIO and out there on-demand for 30 days
15 October 2023 at 3 p.m
NEC Jordan Corridor (Boston)
TRADE: The Messiah
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Roderick Williams, bass
2 December 2023 at 19.30*
GBH Calderwood Studio (Brighton)
*Efficiency streamed dwell on IDAGIO and out there on-demand for 30 days
3 December 2023 at 3 p.m
NEC Jordan Corridor (Boston)
New 12 months’s get together
BOYCE: Symphony No. 1
BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 2
BIBER: Partita No. 1
BIBER: Battaglia
TRADE: Everlasting supply of sunshine divine
Sonja Tengblad, soprano
Justin Bland, trumpet
TRADE: Let the seraphim shine
Sonja Tengblad, soprano
Justin Bland, trumpet
31 December 2023 at 20.00*
GBH Calderwood Studio (Brighton)
*Efficiency streamed dwell on IDAGIO and out there on-demand for 30 days
1 January 2024 at 3 p.m
Sanders Theatre, Harvard College (Cambridge)
VIVALDI: The 4 seasons
Christina Day Martinson, violin
TRADE: Silete Venti
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
15 March 2024 at 20.00*
GBH Calderwood Studio (Brighton)
*Efficiency streamed dwell on IDAGIO and out there on-demand for 30 days
16 March 2024 at 8 p.m
NEC Jordan Corridor (Boston)
MOZART: Don Giovanni
Sidney Outlaw, Don Giovanni
Patrick Carfizzi, Leporello
Susanna Phillips, Donna Anna
Michelle Bradley, Donna Elvira
Maya Kherani, Zerlina
David McFerrin, Masetto
Nick Phan, Don Ottavio
Kevin Deas, Commander
26 April 2027 at 19.30*
28 April 2023 at 3 p.m
Cutler Majestic Theater at Emerson Faculty (Boston)
*Efficiency streamed dwell on IDAGIO and out there on-demand for 30 days
X-tet Kammerserie
Friday 3 November/at 19.30
Sunday 5 November/at 3 p.m
Lyman Property (Waltham)
Friday 16 February at 19.30
Saturday 17 February/at 19.30
Lyman Property (Waltham)
Thursday 30 Could / 19.30
GBH Yawkey Theater (Boston)