Boston Baroque

Founded in 1973 as "Banchetto Musicale" by Music Director Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque's orchestra is composed of some of the finest period-instrument players in the United States who are frequently joined by the ensemble's professional chorus and by world-class, top instrumental and vocal soloists from around the globe. The ensemble presents an... annual subscription series consisting of five programs performed at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston and at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge for their annual New Year's Eve and New Year's Day festivities. Boston Baroque's career milestones include the American premiere of Rameau's Zoroastrein honor of the composer's 300th birthday in 1983, a Mozart opera series including the American period-instrument premieres of Don Giovanniin 1986 and The Magic Flutein 1989 along with The Marriage of Figaroand Cos fan tutte. The orchestra also presented a revelatory exploration of the complete Beethoven symphonies on period instruments. In 1998 - 1999, the ensemble gave the modern premiere of The Philosopher's Stone, a singspiel newly discovered to include music by Mozart which shed fresh light on his canon. In recent years, Boston Baroque presented Boston's first complete cycle of the surviving operas of Monteverdi with new performing editions by Martin Pearlman of L'incoronazione di Poppeaand Il ritorno d'Ulisse, the recording of which received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Opera Recording in 2015. A series of Handel operas including Agrippina,Alcina, Xerxes, Giulio Cesare, Semele, and Amadigi di Gaulabrought the Boston Baroque international recognition. In April of 2018, their performances of Beethoven's Fideliomet with outstanding critical acclaim.Read More