Fri May 7 – Sat May 8 · 7:30pm/3pm
A Salon with Jacquet de La Guerre
Fri May 7 · 7:30pm, Nathaniel Allen House (Newton) / Sat May 8 · 3pm, Goethe-Institut Boston
Oratorios, cantatas, sonatas and harpsichord music by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), who played for Louis XIV as a child prodigy and became the first woman in France to compose an opera, Céphale et Procris (1694). Soprano Michele Kennedy, violinist Sarah Darling and harpsichordist Andrus Madsen perform; the second performance is at the Goethe-Institut in Boston.