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BEMF stages Francesca Caccini's Alcina
A rare chance to see the first extant opera written by a woman, Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’ isola d’ Alcina.
Finding the sublime in Bach’s solo works with the CMS
Less often heard works for lute and organ sat alongside a violin partita and a cello suite that bordered on perfection.
BEMF presents La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo
A riotous double bill of Pergolesi at the Boston Early Music Festival.
Jaroussky and Gauvin star in Steffani's Niobe
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.
Another English anniversary: Paul O'Dette plays John Dowland at Wigmore Hall
A near capacity audience gathered at the Wigmore Hall last week to celebrate another English musical anniversary – not the birth of Benjamin Britten one hundred years ago, but that of lutenist and composer John Dowland, some 350 years earlier.
Rare Baroque jewels shine at Morgan Library with Boston's Tragicomedia
Tragicomedia presented a jewel-box of baroque cantatas at Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library Museum. The elite ensemble, directed by Stephen Stubbs, includes some of America’s finest Baroque musicians, who can improvise in the style as well. Friday evening’s concert also featured soprano Shannon Mercer and bass-baritone Douglas Williams.