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Production photo by Kathy Wittman
The BEMF Chamber Opera returns with the first opera written by a woman composer, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina.
A contemporary of Monteverdi and a colleague of Galileo, Francesca Caccini came of age in Florence during the earliest years of opera as an art form. Both a composer and a performer, she was one of the most important musical figures at the Medici court during the regency of Christina of Lorraine and her daughter-in-law Maria Maddalena. In 1625, amid this time of female leadership, she created the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
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ADMISSION INFO
Tickets: $25, $45, $69, $105
Phone: (617) 661-1812
Email: corey@bemf.org
Website: https://bemf.org/2023-festival/festival-operas/chamber-opera/
LOCATION
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA 02115(Neighborhood: Fenway/Kenmore)
COVID-19 Phased Reopening Details
For the protection of our patrons and artists, masking is required.