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Francesca Caccini's Alcina

Presented by Boston Early Music Festival at NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston MA

Jun 10 2023
Francesca Caccini's Alcina

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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Tickets: $25, $45, $69, $105

LOCATION

NEC's Jordan Hall

30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA 02115
(Neighborhood: Fenway/Kenmore)

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