September 18, 2022; 3:00pm: “The World’s a Stage”

Courante, the Cape’s baroque chamber ensemble performing on period instruments, will present “The World’s a Stage” on Sunday, September 18, 2022, 3:00pm, at the Church of the Messiah, 22 Church St., Woods Hole. The program consists of music from the baroque theater. Highlights are a suite from the opera Cephale et Procris by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, the ballet sequence from Handel’s opera Almira, and instrumental selections from Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. In addition the program includes short numbers by Henry Purcell, J. P. Rameau, and Allesandro Scarlatti. 

Doors open at 2:30pm. $20 suggested donation, kids are free.