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Alkemie will premiere Eleanor, a brand-new queer chamber opera by Alkemie core-member Niccolo Seligmann, at the experimental New Stage Performance Space on the Upper West Side on April 24 and 25.  This semi-staged performance dives into the story of Eleanor Rykener, a gender-nonconforming person arrested in London in 1394 while presenting as a woman. We […]

March 27, 2026Somerville, MA – The Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP) presents eight weeks of live performances and video premieres beginning June 2. Now in its 40th year, SoHIP continues to promote public appreciation and understanding of historically informed performance of early music in New England.  Concerts are at 7:30pm, June 2 to July

The North American Virtual Recorder Society (NAVRS) presents the Flanders Recorder Duo (FR2) for a Medieval Gems Playing Meeting on Saturday, April 25 at 1:30PM, ET. World-renowned musicians, Tom Beets and Joris Van Goethem, will lead the NAVRS monthly Playing Meeting in an exploration of the colorful sound world of the 14th and 15th centuries

Sunday, March 29th, 2026 at Vassar College, Skinner Hall-Martell Recital Hall. Abendmusik presents Vivaldi’s first collection of printed concerti for 1, 2, & 4 violins, Opus 3, l’estro armónico. Published in Amsterdam in 1711, these concerti are believed to have been performed by the all-female orchestra comprised of students at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. In honor