BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA Wrapping up its summer of free concerts on the Esplanade, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra teams up with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company to perform Rodgers and Hart's musical "The Boys From Syracuse," using rarely heard original orchestrations. Christopher Wilkins conducts and Steve Maler directs. With choreography by Yo-El Cassell. Aug. 31, 7 p.m., Hatch Shell at the
Esplanade. 617-987-2000, www.landmarksorchestra.org
OUROBOROS TRILOGY Two freshly minted operas — Scott Wheeler's "Naga" and Paola Prestini's "Gilgamesh" — join Zhou Long's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Madame White Snake" to make up the ambitious new "Ouroboros Trilogy." All three works have librettos by Cerise Lim Jacobs; Michael Counts directs. Sept. 10-17, Cutler Majestic Theatre. 617-824-8400, www.artsemerson.org
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A FAR CRY
As the Gardner Museum’s resident chamber orchestra, A Far Cry kicks off the museum’s popular Sunday concert series with a characteristically eclectic program that moves from Haydn’s Symphony No. 22 to Reich’s “Clapping Music” and beyond.
Sept. 11, 1:30 p.m., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 617-278-5156, www.gardnermuseum.org
Jeremy Eichler can be reached at jeichler@globe.com