Announcing our 2024-2025 season!
Folger Consort returns to its home on our historic Elizabethan stage this September! Our fall program celebrates the music of Venice and Florence in the 16th and 17th centuries while our annual holiday concerts feature Charpentier’s Messe de minuit pour Noël—along with two additional dynamic programs in February and May. Secure your seats and get ready to experience our award-winning ensemble in residence alongside the Folger’s brand new amenities, like Quill & Crumb Café and our exhibition halls. It’s a whole new Folger that Thrillist calls “the hottest reopening in DC this summer.”
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
Tale of Two Cities
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, Florentine composer Francesca Caccini, and the infamous Florentine philosopher and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli, who was also an accomplished poet and musician.
A Mass for Christmas Eve
Baroque Music for the Season
December 6 – 15, 2024
Composed in 1694, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Messe de Minuit pour Noel” is based on captivating, folksong-like noels steeped in the composer’s characteristic balance of irresistible dance rhythms and sophisticated harmonies. The Consort will complement Charpentier’s Mass with haunting English “Balulalows” for voices set amid joyful instrumental concertos by Italian baroque masters.
The Love Birds
Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules
February 14 – 16, 2025
Geoffrey Chaucer’s charming and trenchant A Parlement of Foules contains the first reference to St. Valentine as patron saint of lovers. The 14th-century poet’s vision of avian politics will be interspersed with bracing and intricate music of his times from England and France, perfectly mirrored by the newly-composed music of composer Juri Seo.
Kings and Commonwealth
The English Civil War
May 2 – 4, 2025
The music from the court of King James I reflects the political and religious upheavals in early seventeenth century England. The Folger Consort will perform political ballads of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, along with instrumental music from both James’ and Charles I’s courts and swaggering and silly political songs from Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy.
Subscriber benefits
- The best seats locked in at the best price – up to 20% savings on single ticket prices
- Free, no-fee ticket exchanges
- Free access to the Early Music Seminar series hosted by Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein, offered online via Zoom
- Ticket discounts to Folger Theatre performances, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, and other Folger events
- Exclusive subscriber-only content and special offers
For more information, please contact our box office at (202) 544-7077 or email folgerboxoffice@folger.edu.
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