Performer: Jesse Blumberg

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.