Steffani's Orlando
Boston Early Music Festival
The GRAMMY-winning Boston Early Music Festival takes audiences on a journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani’s 1691 opera Orlando generoso. The valiant knight Orlando travels to distant China in search of his love, Princess Angelica. When she rejects him, he spirals into self-doubt and madness in a psychological drama full of magic and mystery. Based on Ludovico Ariosto’s 16th-century epic, Orlando is a profound masterpiece that deconstructs medieval myths to examine deeply human themes of desire, love, jealousy, and madness. Musical Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs and Stage Director Gilbert Blin will lead this new production in four fully staged performances, June 9, 12, 14, and 16, 2019 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre (219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA). Ticket packages are available through the BEMF Box Office at 617-661-1812 or BEMF.org; individual tickets are available through the Box Office at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at EmersonTheatres.org or 617-824-8000.
“Ludovico Ariosto’s 16th-century epic poem Orlando furioso was a rip-roaring tale of romance, intrigue, exoticism, and magic, and was as popular with Baroque audiences as Game of Thrones is today!” offers Stephen Stubbs. “Steffani, in his most acclaimed opera, gave musical wings to this beloved tale and crafted one of opera’s earliest portraits of madness within a dreamscape of enchanted castles and far-off lands.”
The Boston Early Music Festival’s fully staged production of Orlando will feature magnificent, period-inspired costumes, brilliant sets, breathtaking flying machines, and truly ravishing music. Rounding out the directorial team will be Concertmaster Robert Mealy leading the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Dance Director Melinda Sullivan supervising the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, Choreographer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Set Designer Gilbert Blin, Costume Designer Anna Watkins, and Executive Producer Kathleen Fay. BEMF has assembled a truly outstanding cast of 9 singers, including many critically-acclaimed favorites from past BEMF productions, with GRAMMY-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan in the title role, soprano Amanda Forsythe as Princess Angelica, soprano Emőke Baráth as Bradamante, and more. Joining them will be the 30-member Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Concertmaster Robert Mealy, 8 Baroque dancers from the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company under the direction of Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director, and 11 members of the BEMF Young Artists Training Program under the leadership of Gilbert Blin, Founder & Director and Jason McStoots, Associate Director, 2019.
Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 3:30pm
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 7pm
Friday, June 14, 2019 at 7pm
Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:30pm
“Ludovico Ariosto’s 16th-century epic poem Orlando furioso was a rip-roaring tale of romance, intrigue, exoticism, and magic, and was as popular with Baroque audiences as Game of Thrones is today!” offers Stephen Stubbs. “Steffani, in his most acclaimed opera, gave musical wings to this beloved tale and crafted one of opera’s earliest portraits of madness within a dreamscape of enchanted castles and far-off lands.”
The Boston Early Music Festival’s fully staged production of Orlando will feature magnificent, period-inspired costumes, brilliant sets, breathtaking flying machines, and truly ravishing music. Rounding out the directorial team will be Concertmaster Robert Mealy leading the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Dance Director Melinda Sullivan supervising the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, Choreographer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Set Designer Gilbert Blin, Costume Designer Anna Watkins, and Executive Producer Kathleen Fay. BEMF has assembled a truly outstanding cast of 9 singers, including many critically-acclaimed favorites from past BEMF productions, with GRAMMY-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan in the title role, soprano Amanda Forsythe as Princess Angelica, soprano Emőke Baráth as Bradamante, and more. Joining them will be the 30-member Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Concertmaster Robert Mealy, 8 Baroque dancers from the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company under the direction of Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director, and 11 members of the BEMF Young Artists Training Program under the leadership of Gilbert Blin, Founder & Director and Jason McStoots, Associate Director, 2019.
Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 3:30pm
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 7pm
Friday, June 14, 2019 at 7pm
Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:30pm
Performances run through
2019-06-16For more information visit
https://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/, 3:30 pm
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater
219 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02116
United States
Type:
Opera