October 2, 2022; 4:00pm: “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, October 2nd, 2022, 4:00pm, at St, Peter’s Lutheran Church, 310 Route 137 in Harwich. 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 3:30pm. $20 suggested donation, kids are free.