Friends of Chamber Music "Acis and Galatea" review by Paul Horsely

Performances of Baroque operas are rare enough, but rarer still are productions that take into account all aspects of 18th-century performance practice—not just historically informed singing and period instruments but also costumes, décor, gestures and stage direction that reflect what an audience of the period might have experienced. Normally one can hear such things only in cities like Paris, London or Amsterdam, and it was thus with great anticipation we attended the Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea, which despite a few reservations was one of the major theatrical and musical events of the Kansas City season.

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