Of course the opera reflects the lofty themes and mythical characters popular in European baroque opera. The performing group Elyma, from Geneva, focuses on Mediterranean vocal music and Latin American traditions.

Camerata Köln also makes an appearance at the festival. The Camerata’s beginnings, almost 30 years ago, concentrated strictly on music for woodwind. Since then the ensemble has increased its instrumentation and its players to seven.

The German baroque will be their focus at the Miami festival. Apollo’s Fire, a period instrument group from Cleveland, is the other non-European ensemble performing for the festival. Their mixture of Bach and early Mozart in a program last fall in the group’s hometown centered on the composers’ adoration of the ensemble’s patron saint, Apollo.

Versailles’s resident baroque ensemble, Les Chantres et les Pages will introduce Miami to some newly discovered music of the French baroque. Les Chantres is one of the arms of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, which is dedicated to locating, researching and disseminating French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The splashiest concert of the series is the opener when the Miami Bach Society Chamber Orchestra plays Handel’s Fireworks music against the backdrop of Coral Gables’ stunning pink and grand Biltmore Hotel.