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June 5 and 6 concerts featured operatic fireworks, a forgotten harpist, and a breakout soprano star

The festival’s new production of Henry Desmarest’s ‘Circé,’ with a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, opened on Sunday afternoon at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

/PRNewswire/ -- The GRAMMY-winning Boston Early Music Festival takes audiences on an epic adventure drawn from Homers Odyssey with the full staged North...

From June 4 to 11, Boston will once again be the site of an enormous live gathering of early music performers, fans, scholars, instrument makers, and enthusiasts of all kinds. The festival features the North American premiere of Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera “Circé."

The Sandwich Arts Alliance Village Concert Series will present a musical collaboration between the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Ferris Choral Fellows at Sandwich Historic Town Hall on Saturday,

Join Americas Society for the hybrid second half of the 2021–2022 season, including opera, early music, and premieres.

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorge...

Wagner’s Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here. 1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored: Jalbert’s Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry. Crossings is bui...