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Buy TicketsBy Terry Byrne, Globe correspondent. Updated December 12, 2024. “The Revels,” says director Debra Wise, “is the ultimate collage.” This year’s 54th production, “The Selkie Girl and the Seal Woman” is the result of months of listening, learning, collecting, and curating, culminating in a gathering of nearly 60 singers, musicians,…
David Patterson. Updated November 1, 2024. An “immersive stage mass” continues this year on an international tour with 22 new performances in 10 cities including Boston from October 31st through November 2nd. Early Halloween evening The Cathedral Church of St. Paul Boston opened its doors transformed into a clandestine…
By Matt Marino. Updated November 1, 2024. Ask your average person what they know about the English Renaissance, and they will probably answer that they ate turkey legs and jousted a lot. For serious history scholars, they will tell tales of the Bard of Avalon, Shakespeare. The Virgin…
This weekend, the UK’s lauded vocal consort, The Gesualdo Six, flies across the pond to join Revels for Revels Presents: Secret Byrd. We sat down with Owain Park, director of the ensemble, to learn more about the group’s busy performance schedule, work in the community, and experiences performing Secret…
By BMInt Staff. Updated October 26, 2024. The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik will collaborate with creator Bill Barclay in a theatrical seance by candlelight, communing with some of the most ravishing music ever written, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston on October 31st to November 2nd. Co-commissioned by St. Martin-in-the-Fields…
For over 20 years, Seven Times Salt has been exploring, expanding, and morphing the tradition of 16th- and 17th-century English Concert repertoire, bringing their unique curiosity and creativity to historically accurate performances that “blur the line between art music and folk tunes in the concert hall, the dance…
Joining the Midwinter Revels Children’s Chorus is a huge commitment for our young singers, who spent the entire fall learning music, choreography, and blocking for a thirteen-performance run in Sanders Theatre. But being in the Children’s Chorus is also an amazing opportunity for young performers to grow and…
Every year, a brave cohort of young performers take the Sanders Theatre stage as members of our Revels Children’s Chorus. After months of rehearsal, including three all-day weekend rehearsals with our Adult Chorus, they take the stage to perform songs, dances, and more for two exciting weeks of…
By Jeffrey Gantz, Globe correspondant. Updated December 18, 2023, 3:04 PM CAMBRIDGE — The Feast of Fools arose in medieval Europe as a Christmastide ritual in which a mock bishop or pope was elected and low and high officials changed places. The inspiration came perhaps from the birth…
By Michael Hoban. Updated December 20, 2023 Midwinter Revels: The Feast of Fools: A Medieval Celebration of the Solstice – Written and Directed by Patrick Swanson and Debra Wise.; Musical Direction by Elijah Botkin; Choreography by Susan Dibble; Set Design by Jeremy Barnett; Sound Design by Bill Winn;…
