Aaron Sheehan as Orphée in the production of Charpentier’s “La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’’ at Jordan Hall on Sunday.
(andré costantini)
OPERA REVIEW
BEMF’s chamber opera series returns with Charpentier double bill
Aaron Sheehan as Orphée in the production of Charpentier’s “La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’’ at Jordan Hall on Sunday.
(andré costantini)
Boston Early Music Festival’s annual post-Thanksgiving chamber opera series in Jordan Hall has become a popular tradition among local early music fans. This year, BEMF returned to French Baroque terrain with a double bill of works by Charpentier: “La Couronne de Fleurs’’ and “La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers,’’ two pastoral operas written for the court of Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise. The first, with a libretto adapted from Moliere, convenes a musical-poetic contest among
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