Our Excellent Baroque Weekend Haymarket And Lyric Present Rarely Performed Period Operas

• Chuck Osgood
• Olof Lilja as Haymarket Opera’s Actéon

We’ve got a Baroque opera minifestival going this weekend, with Lyric Opera performing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Haymarket Opera Company offering a double bill by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Le Jugement de Pan and Actéon.

Le Jugement de Pan is a singing contest between two shepherds, with the half-goat, half-human god as judge. Actéon (Swedish tenor Olof Lilja has the title role) is the mythic story of a hunter who suffers a truly transformational penalty after spying on the goddess Diana as she bathes. Ellen Hargis directs. At Mayne Stage, as in the palaces where these pieces were first performed, you can enjoy a glass of wine while they unfold.

Baroque fans all over the globe: eat your hearts out.