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Tristan and IseultOur retelling of the Tristan and Iseult legend using original medieval music and poetry has won numerous awards and toured the globe since its premiere in 1986. Now, Anne Azéma brings this immortal lovers’ tale back to life, directing an all-star cast in Joel Cohen’s powerful scenario.

Hear the world’s most famous romance as it was narrated in the Middle Ages, with magnificent music drawn from 12th-century sources.

Anne Azéma, Sumner Thompson, Jason McStoots,
Clare McNamara, voices; Shira Kammen, vielle;
Joel Cohen, gittern, lauta, narration;
with young professionals from
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Lighting design by Peter Torpey

Tickets $25/$42/60; $10 students
Purchase online or by calling 617-262-2092.

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It’s not too late to give a year-end donation. Your generous support helps us continue Camerata’s 60+ years of bringing magnificent music to the world.

Why support the Boston Camerata? Leonard Bernstein had a great answer: Art changes life, and people. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so they are…enriched, ennobled, encouraged; they then act in ways that may affect the course of events.

The Camerata does change people; you have told us that:

“An incredibly powerful performance…you made me cry!”
  – An audience member, after Tristan et Iseult in Rockport

“I can’t describe how much I loved the incredible production today.
Thank you for inviting me to take part of it! Just so very moving.”
  – A cast member, after Liberty Tree at Harvard University


Camerata’s music links different cultures around shared values. Anne and her magnificent colleagues express our highest ideals through their musical art, reinforcing the message of our common humanity. This is important and necessary work in our time, and it brings ineffable joy.

Please help the Camerata to continue. We ask you to support our work and our music with a generous gift. Our community, and the world, will be a better place as a result.