CAMERATA NEWS
Borrowed Light Returns
The classic and much admired collaboration between the Tero Saarinen Company (TSC) and The Boston Camerata (TBC) now returns to the stage 20 years after its premiere.
A Medieval Masterpiece revisited
Leading the second half of our 70th anniversary season programming, Anne Azéma’s powerful staging of Daniel reverberates once again at Trinity Church Copley Square on January 19, 2025 at 2pm. This contemporary production involves lights, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast of seasoned professionals, children, and students of the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Camerata returns with vivid Musical Celebrations
The holiday season is fast-approaching, and The Boston Camerata is delighted to offer two celebratory programs: A Medieval Christmas: Hodie Christus Natus Est tours Maine and Massachusetts December 5-8, and A German Christmas: In Dulci Jubilo comes to Cambridge, MA on December 22.
Lands of Pure Delight: Seven Decades of Music Making with the Boston Camerata
With an unusually long and distinguished career, immersed at every moment in [early] music and the riches of musical history, the Boston Camerata rejoices in seven decades of historically-informed performance, research, community outreach, and musical education.
Pure delight! camerata announces its 2024-25 concert season, celebrating seven decades
Something extraordinary is about to happen: The Boston Camerata, America’s leading early music ensemble, is about to celebrate a milestone anniversary.
RECENT PRESS
A guide to Greater Boston’s bounty of spring classical music events
The Boston Camerata presents two programs in Spring 2025: Trav’ling Home (April 26 & 26) and A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power ca. 1300 (June 10).
10 March 2025
Tero Saarinen and the Boston Camerata: “Borrowed Light”
This reprise of Borrowed Light, “a classic, even a mythical work” (Dancer Canal Historique, March 2025), born from a collaboration between The Boston Camerata and Tero Saarinen Company, has been met in Finland and France by sold out halls and enthusiastic standing ovations.
8 March 2025
La Boston Camerata, les 70 ans d’un ensemble défricheur
« Dans la pénombre, des voix s’élèvent tandis que les silhouettes des danseurs se mettent en mouvement. Doucement, souplement, comme s’ils s’éveillaient au monde… »
25 February 2025
La Française qui fait chanter l’Amérique
« Leur spectacle Borrowed Light, sur les shakers (puritains de Nouvelle-Angleterre), créé avec le chorégraphe Tero Saarinen, au Havre, en 2004, et repris mercredi au festival Automne en Normandie, fut nommé l’an passé meilleur spectacle de la décennie par la critique américaine, au terme d’une tournée de quarante dates ! »
Borrowed Light, Le figaro 2011
Daniel’s Gift
“Anne Azéma and Boston Camerata brought us a fresh, riveting, ravishing and absolutely contemporary version of Daniel’s gift.”
20 January 2025
“Things to do around boston…” (Boston Globe)
Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited cited by The Boston Globe in “Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond”
15 January 2025
Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited
Boston Music Intelligencer: The fiery prophecies of Daniel, young captive in corrupt Babylon, will ring forth again. Anne Azéma’s new production of the greatest musical play from the French Middle Ages involves deeply evocative lighting, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast. Seasoned professionals will partner with children and Longy School of Music of Bard College students to make 1310 happen again at Trinity Church, Copley Square on January 19th at 2:00. Tickets HERE…
11 January 2025
The Boston Globe’s “Big To-Do”
A German Christmas: In Dulci Jubilo selected by The Boston Globe for your festive celebration this Sunday [December 22].
18 December 2024
Boston Camerata’s medieval Christmas resonates gracefully with the present
“Boston Camerata proved that medieval music can resonate as much as holiday music of today in a well-attended performance on Friday [December 6] night in Belmont.”
December 2024
Bregenz Festival’s 2025 Season
The Tero Saarinen Company and The Boston Camerata will present Borrowed Light July 23 & 24 for the Bregenz Festival’s 2025 season.
November 2024
The Boston Camerata Turns 70
“Music conveys the flow of history, Cohen says. Boston Camerata concerts show ‘that something old can still make you vibrate, that something comes alive across the centuries.'”
November-December 2024
Boston Camerata’s first 70 years
“In 1954, with playable instruments in hand, a collective of Boston musicians started experimenting with early repertoires from a remote musical world”…
SEPTEMBER 2024
Camerata Commemorates
Anne Davenport interviews Artistic Director, Anne Azéma, in advance of the 70th anniversary season’s opening performance on October 6.
SEPTEMBER 2024
checking in with ensembles old and brand new
“As key players in the development of the U.S. early-music field, much of their history is our history.”
SEPTEMBER 2024
Boston Camerata to Celebrate its 70th Anniversary
The Boston Camerata will open its 70th anniversary season on October 6 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
september 2024