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

The BEMF Dance Company.

A vibrant stage scene from a Baroque opera performance, with dancers in light blue dresses and masks performing in the center, while other actors in period costumes are seated around them and an orchestra is visible at the bottom of the frame.

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