Classical this fall: opera
Boston Academy of Music
Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., Boston. * 617-824-8000. Richard Conrad, director. $18-$47.50, students and seniors $16-$43. 
Sept. 17-18, 8 p.m. and Sept. 19, 3 and 8 p.m., John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera." Anthony Cornish, director; Kyle Swann, conductor. Nov. 27 at 8 p.m., Nov. 28 at 3 and 8 p.m., and Nov. 29 at 3 p.m., Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore." Patricia-Maria Weinmann, director; Francisco Noya, conductor.
Boston Aria Guild
Boston. * 617-927-7431. Oct. 31, 8 p.m., Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave. "An All-Hallow's Eve Songbite," works by Ravel, Purcell, Verdi, Schubert, Brahms, others; $12.50, $17.50, costumes encouraged. Dec. 31, 8 p.m., Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St. New Year's Eve gala, "Die Fledermaus," $45, $60; followed by Fledermaus Ball, $45.
Boston Bel Canto Opera
Bradley Pennington, director. Francisco Noya conducts concert performance of Verdi's "Aida" with Joanna Porackova, Danute Mileika, Maxwell Li; Symphony by the Sea. Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Nelson Aldrich Performing Arts Center, Marblehead High School, Marblehead, 978-745-4955; $20, $25, students $15. Sept. 26, Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, * 617-536-2412; $18-$43, $2 discount for students, seniors.
Boston Lyric Opera Company
Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston. 617-542-6772, 800-447-7400. Opening night 7 p.m.; other nights 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.; pre-opera lectures one hour before performance. $25-$98. Nov. 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, Verdi's "La Traviata" with Dominique Labelle, Rafael Rojas, Hector Vasquez, Gale Fuller; Leon Major, director; Stephen Lord, conductor; Daniel Pelzig, choreographer.
Cambridge Lieder and Opera Society
617-547-1141. 8 p.m. $15, students and seniors $12, families $35. Narrated holiday concert of songs, arias; selections from Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel." With Christmas cakes and chocolates. Dec. 3, Follen Church, 755 Mass. Ave., Lexington. Dec. 5, University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St., Cambridge.
Ocean State Lyric Opera
Veteran Memorial Auditorium, Brownell Street, Providence, R.I. 800-233-3123, 401-272-4862. Sept. 26, 8 p.m. $26.50-$61.50, $2 discount for students and seniors. Verdi's "Rigoletto" with Stephen Kechnulius, Diane Alexander, Noel Espiritu Velasco; Marc Verzatt, director; Ann Danis, conductor.
