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Soprano Amanda Forsythe and the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) have won the 2026 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for ‘Ino”, by Telemann. It is performed by soprano Amanda Forsythe, under the musical direction of Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs and conductor Robert Mealy. A thrilling cantata by Telemann, the story of Ino is taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Written at the end of Telemann’s life, this masterful miniature bridges the Baroque and Classical eras, brimming with sparkling theatricality and breathtaking virtuosity. This is the second GRAMMY Award won by the BEMF, which in 2015 received the award for Best Opera Recording for Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers. Ino was staged in Boston in 2021 and will be revived at the Boston Festival in June 2025. Telemann was over 80 when he wrote Ino, a dramatic opera depicting a desperate woman trying to save herself and her son from a husband who has gone mad, before throwing herself off a cliff and being transformed into a goddess.
Founded in 1981, the BEMF has helped cement Boston’s reputation as the American capital of early music. The 24th Boston Early Music Festival will take place from 6 to 13 June 2027, with the programme including the premiere of Emma und Eginhard, another opera by Telemann.
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