Our 2026-2027 season is now on sale!
This year, we celebrate the 50th season of Folger Consort. Under the artistic leadership of Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall, our award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence has created opportunities to discover and enjoy music from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods since its founding in 1977.
We invite you to celebrate Folger Consort’s anniversary and enduring legacy with us by subscribing to the 2026-2027 season. As a subscriber, you’ll enjoy the best seats at the best price, the flexibility of unlimited ticket exchanges with no fees, access to discounted tickets, and a promise that your ticket prices won’t increase when shows are in high demand. Plus, subscribers receive exclusive behind-the-scenes content and special offers throughout the year.
Scroll down to learn more about our package options, or contact the box office at (202) 544-7077 or folgerboxoffice@folger.edu for more information.
Deals for the current season
On stage next: Love Songs of the 15th Century! Although it’s no longer possible to subscribe to our 2025-2026 season, you can enjoy up to 30% savings on tickets with our flexible Folger 6Tix package.
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.
Explore the season
Monteverdi’s Legacy
September 11-13, 2026
Folger Consort launches its 50th season with the musical equivalent of a gondola tour through 17th-century Venice, where the innovations of the early Baroque got their start in the City of Canals. Venice was already an established center of church music when Claudio Monteverdi was appointed music director at San Marco in 1613. By the time of his death, 30 years later, Venice was a flourishing home for early opera and chamber music. In this program of virtuosic and expressive music, Folger Consort will perform madrigals, motets, sonatas, and operatic excerpts by Monteverdi and his students and admirers, including Rovetta, Cavalli, and Marini.
An English Christmas for the Ages
December 11-20, 2026
Celebrate the holidays with a centuries-spanning program of medieval Yuletide songs, English Christmas carols, and festive works from the royal courts of both King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, including beautiful music by composers Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. In a commemorative nod to the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, the performance culminates in delightful Christmas anthems by New England composer William Billings.
Folktales and Storied Traditions: Troubadours, Griots, and Hakawatis
February 12-14, 2027
Explore oral histories, heroic sagas, folk tales, and epic romances across the West African, Arabic, and European musical traditions. In this program, Folger Consort traces the narrative and musical connections between West African djali or griots, preservers of oral histories shared through song; Arabic hakawatis, revered storytellers of heroic sagas and folk tales; and medieval Provençal and French singer-poets. Together, these three musical traditions honor the role of music and storytelling in preserving culture and history, while offering distinct takes from their own cultural perspectives.
Folger Consort’s Golden Jubilee
May 7-9, 2027
To close this special anniversary season, Folger Consort returns to the music of its very first season, much of which has canonical status in the early music world. Featuring music from the Consort’s original ensemble of instrumental quartet and voice, this concert will journey from 13th-century Spain and Portugal through 14th-century Italy and 15th-century Paris and Vienna, and concludes with the music of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the era of Shakespeare.
Join us in celebrating Folger Consort and its founders and co-Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall for this 50th anniversary fête!
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6Tix
Our new flexible package gives you six tickets to use in any combination to performances in Folger Theatre and Folger Consort’s 2025-2026 seasons. See the plays or concerts that you want at a time of your choice. These six tickets are valid for any Folger Theatre or Folger Consort performance this season, any day of the week and at the time of your choice. Just call the box office when you’re ready to select your seats. Pay now, pick later. It’s so easy!
Contact the box office at (202) 544–7077 or folgerboxoffice@folger.edu to learn more and get 6Tix.