Sopranos Carolyn Sampson and Karina Gauvin will star as Psyche and Venus.
BEMF produces a concert series as well as a biennial festival and exhibition, which this year featured the staged premiere of Boris Goudenow, a 1710 opera by Johann Mattheson. The group's recording of Johann Georg Conradi's Ariadne, the centerpiece of the 2003 festival, spent time on the Billboard classical chart this year and was recently nominated for a Grammy Award.