Anne Azéma, Artistic Director of The Boston Camerata, has been honored by Early Music America with the Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding work as an educator, leader of collegiate ensembles, and for her prominent contributions to the study and performance of early music. Azéma’s teaching activities include master classes, seminars, and residences in conservatories and universities. Her most recent residencies {…}
The French government has bestowed the honor of Officier de l’order des Arts et Lettres on Anne Azéma, Artistic Director of The Boston Camerata. Azéma is a French-born singer, music director, stage director, scholar, and researcher, and a long-time soloist with the Boston Camerata who became a U.S. citizen in 2004 after living in the Boston area for many years. {…}
Boston Camerata is marking the 40th anniversary year of the release of its landmark period-instrument recording of Purcell/Tate’s “Dido and Aeneas” with a new digital production of the opera set to stream from November 14-29. The cast is led by mezzo-soprano Tahanee Aluwihare as Dido and baritone Luke Scott as Aeneas. Bookending the performance is a presentation by musicologist Ellen {…}
The Boston Camerata will soon take its “Free America! Songs of Resistance and Rebellion (1790 – 1860)” to Boston and Portland, ME. The ensemble recently performed the program of early American music to a sold-out crowd in Boston’s sister city of Strasbourg, France in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the two cities’ pairing. They were joined by two local {…}