This Sunday, July 5, Musica Antiqua host Sarah Brailey talks with Cheryl Bensman-Rowe and Paul Rowe, co-directors of the Madison Early Music Festival about how this year’s festival is adapting to the constraints brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. All in-person concerts, workshops, and lectures have been postponed to July 2021. Instead, supporters from all […]
Christa Patton on Monteverdi
Is Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea relevant to young performers and a modern audience? On Nov. 16, 18, & 20, UW Opera presents this masterpiece about the woman who schemed to become empress with Nero. Baroque opera specialist Christa Patton talked about the challenges in staging the opera with John W. Barker and Alan Muirhead on the […]
More Highlights from MEMF and BEMF
This Sunday Musica Antiqua continues its series on the Boston and Madison Early Music Festivals with 3 interviews and lots of music. First off we’ll hear Patrick Dunachie, the newest member of the King’s Singers, describing his role and what has kept that group going strong for 50 years. The King’s Singers sang at BEMF […]
Early Music At BEMF and MEMF
The London Times calls the Boston Early Music Festival “the world’s leading festival of early music.” This year’s week-long festival showcased 2 operas, 18 concerts, an exhibition, symposia, master classes and some 65 fringe concerts! On last Sunday’s June 25 edition of Musica Antiqua Alan Muirhead, freshly returned from Boston, played musical selections by many of the […]
WORT Interviews Sigrun Franzen and Eric Miller Live Sunday Morning
Musica Antiqua will feature a live interview in the 10:00 o’clock hour with Sigrun and Eric, as they talk about the Baroque Chamber Concert coming up on Saturday, September 24. Chelsie Propst and Laura Thompson will join them in a program of music by Buxtehude, Telemann, Schutz, and Biber at the Zion Lutheran Church at […]
MEMF Final Concert To Stream Live Online
The grand finale of the Madison Early Music Festival – the All-Festival concert – will be video streamed live online Saturday night 7/16 starting at 7:15 pm. If you can’t attend the concert in person, go to https://artsinstitute.wisc.edu/memf/ for the link to the broadcast. WORT is proud to be the local station that supports local classical […]
