“Love & Power”: Boston Early Music Festival Again Unearths a Baroque Rarity

Christian Immler (Pimpinone), Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière (Arlecchino), and Danielle Reutter-Harrah (Vepsetta) in Telemann’s Pimpinone.

A performance scene on stage at a Baroque music event, with two actors in period costumes (a man in white, and a woman in a yellow skirt and gray jacket) singing or performing, while a seated man in elaborate white wig holds a book; an orchestra is in the background.

Each edition of the festival mounts as its centerpiece a fully staged revival of a near-forgotten opera—in 2025, BEMF chose Reinhard Keiser’s ‘Octavia.’

“Love & Power”: Boston Early Music Festival Again Unearths a Baroque Rarity