Go behind the scenes with the GRAMMY Award-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series and our brand-new production celebrating a Royal Peace with masterworks of the French Baroque by Lully and Charpentier. Hear from the performers and directors as they are hard-at-work bringing this this musical feast to the stage on Thanksgiving weekend in Boston. Join us for Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil on November 26 & 27 at NEC's Jordan Hall in Boston, in Miami on November 30, in New

The GRAMMY-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns on Thanksgiving Weekend in Boston with a Double Bill of music written for Louis XIV! Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil were each commissioned in 1685 for lavish garden parties planned by French courtiers to celebrate King Louis XIV. Both pieces feature an idyllic utopia where shepherds in the French countryside celebrate a recent truce “given” to Europe by the Sun King. The genius of Charpentier and Lully raises the