Announcing our 2024-2025 season!
Our 2024-2025 Season, entitled Whose Democracy?, features four concert programs that explore the dynamics of politics between the 14th and 17th centuries. Subscribe today to take advantage of all the best benefits, including guaranteed seat location(s), unlimited ticket exchanges, access to discounted tickets, and more.
Below, explore details about the individual concerts and subscription package options. Make your purchase online today, or contact the box office at (202) 544-7077 or folgerboxoffice@folger.edu for more information.
Explore the season
A Tale of Two Cities
The Music of Florence and Venice
September 13 – 15, 2024
Both Florence and Venice were European power centers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Both also had exciting musical cultures. The Consort will offer pieces by important composers who worked in each city: Claudio Monteverdi and his colleagues who created at San Marco in Venice, and Florentine composer Francesca Caccini, among others.
Mass for Christmas Eve
Music of Charpentier
December 6 – 15, 2024
Composed around 1694, Charpentier’s Messe de minuit pour Noël is based on lovely and folky Christmas noëls. Charpentier achieved a delightful balance of graceful dance rhythms and sophisticated harmony. The Consort will accompany the Charpentier work with rarely played Italian baroque Christmas music and other festive pieces to ring in the season.
The Love Birds
Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules
February 14 – 16, 2025
Geoffrey Chaucer’s narrative poem A Parlement of Foules contains the first mention of Saint Valentine as a patron of lovers. Chaucer’s narrative poem will be framed with music from 14th-century England and France, and a newly-commissioned piece by composer Juri Seo.
Kings and Commonwealth
The English Civil War
May 2 – 4, 2025
Music from the Jacobean court and the period of the English Civil War, reflecting on the political and religious upheavals in England. The Folger Consort will highlight political ballads focussed on Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, plus music from the courts of James I and Charles I, including political songs from Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy.
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