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Soula Parassidis gives a fierce vocal and dramatic performance astutely calibrated to the unusual venue.

An opening night of Gregory Spears' opera is more like a dress rehearsal in Boston. 

Despite its title, the victims dominate Julian Grant and Mark Campbell’s caustic one-act opera. 

A riotous double bill of Pergolesi at the Boston Early Music Festival.

With Lully’s death in 1687 and Louis XIV’s increasing immersion in religious piety under the influence of Madame de Maintenon, the court ceased to exercise a strangle hold on opera.

In spite of superb performances from the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and the two lead soloists, Steffani’s Niobe at the Concertgebouw offers too few inspired moments to make it truly memorable.

Rounding off the holiday weekend almost like an after-dinner cordial, the Boston Early Music Festival presented a pair of Pergolesi intermezzi: La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo.

To accompany the exhibition “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” the early music ensemble TENET held court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a lovely concert of musical portraits from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Le Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra et pas moins de neufs chanteurs issus de différents horizons étaient réunis pour l’exécution du septième opéra en trois actes du compositeur italien Agostino Steffani, Niobe, Regina di Tebe.