Critics' picks - children's operas

The North Cambridge Faily Opera is shown performing "The Puzzle Jigs." (Jon Chomitz Photography)

Family affairs

Here are a couple of other Boston-area children's operas this spring:

Boston Conservatory Opera Department

"Pinocchio," with music by Mozart, Offenbach, Donizetti, Pergolesi, Sullivan, and Verdi, words and story adaptation by John Davies.

April 26 (noon and 2 p.m.), Seully Hall, free; April 27 (10:30 a.m.), Coolidge Corner Theatre, $10 adults/$8 children, coolidge.org/showtimes

North Cambridge Family Opera

David Haines's science oratorio "Powers of Ten."

April 27 (6:30 p.m.), Museum of Science, Cahners Auditorium (museum admission not required); May 3 (1 p.m.), John M. Tobin School, Cambridge; May 4 (3 p.m.), Kirsch Auditorium, MIT. Free; part of Cambridge Science Festival. familyopera.org