E-Mail This Article to a Friend Embarrassment of riches Everybody come to Boston in the springtime BY LLOYD SCHWARTZ

Emmanuel Music sings in the spring with a concert performance of Schumann’s rarely heard opera Genoveva, with Craig Smith leading a superb cast including baritone James Maddalena (Emmanuel Church, April 2). Emmanuel’s five-year Schumann retrospective continues with chamber concerts on April 17 and May 1; call (617) 536-3356.

Opera Boston returns with Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning version of the late Arthur Miller’s play about witch hunts, The Crucible (Cutler Majestic Theatre, April 8 and 10); call (617) 451-9944.

Boston Lyric Opera offers a Russian masterpiece, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Shubert Theatre, March 30 through April 12). We also hope this "Flights of Fancy" season takes flight with the Boston premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight (Shubert Theatre, April 27 through May 10); call (617) 542-4912.

James Levine closes his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a pianist, playing Schubert with Russian virtuoso Evgeny Kissin (Symphony Hall, April 27). Violinist Vadim Repin plays Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No 1 with the BSO under Kurt Masur, who also leads Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony (April 14 through 16 and 19). Two Christoph von Dohnányi concerts include the BSO debut of German cellist Alban Gerhardt in the Schumann Cello Concerto, Lutoslawski’s great Concerto for Orchestra, and Ravel’s La valse (April 21, 22, and 26), then Mahler’s First Symphony sharing the bill with Harrison Birtwistle (April 28 through 30). The season ends with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leading pianist Stephen Kovacevich in Beethoven’s "Emperor" Concerto and two Respighi spectaculars, Pini di Roma and Fontane di Roma. Call (617) 266-1492.

The Bank of America Celebrity Series presents, at Jordan Hall, Boston soprano Barbara Quintiliani (April 1), the Beaux Arts Trio (April 2), the exciting Boston-based Russian pianist Sergey Schepkin (April 16), and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin (May 13). And at Symphony Hall, there’s Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (April 6), the Staatskapelle Dresden, with Myung Whun Chung conducting Brahms, with pianist Emanuel Ax (April 17), and violinist Itzhak Perlman (May 1). Call (617) 482-2595.

David Hoose leads the Cantata Singers in works by Boston composers living (John Harbison, Marjorie Merryman, Charles Fussell) and not (All Saints Parish, May 13 and 14); call (617) 267-6502. Grant Llewellyn leads Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Handel and Haydn Society (Symphony Hall, April 8 and 10); call (617) 262-1815. Donald Teeters’s Boston Cecilia is offering Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C and the oratorio Davidde Penitente (Jordan Hall, April 10); call (617) 232-4540.

American Classics has a concert of excerpts from Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues (Pickman Hall, April 8 and 10) and a Boston composers program, from Billings to Andy Vores and Scott Wheeler (St Paul Church, Cambridge, April 24); call (617) 254-1125.

Gil Rose’s Boston Modern Orchestra Project pays tribute to Toro Takemitsu (Jordan Hall, April 15); call (617) 363-0396. Richard Pittman’s Boston Musica Viva offers "From Eastern Europe, with Love," with Lee Hyla and Polish composers (Tsai Performance Center, May 6); call (617) 354-6910.

Benjamin Zander’s Boston Philharmonic concludes with cellist Alexander Baillie in Frank Bridge’s Oration plus Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 (Sanders Theatre, April 28 and May 1; Jordan Hall, April 30); call (617) 236-0999. The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra’s final concert features pianist Stephen Drury (Sanders Theatre, May 15); call (617) 661-7067.

Susan Davenny Wyner’s New England String Ensemble presents "Ancient Spirits, New Voices," with C.P.E. Bach, Betty Olivero (with mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal), Schubert (with the Harvard Glee Club), and Richard Strauss’s late Metamorphosen (Jordan Hall, April 17); call (781) 224-1117. David Feltner’s Chamber Orchestra of Boston couples a new work by Adrienne Elisha with Aaron’s Copland’s Appalachian Spring (Jordan Hall, April 22); call (617) 585-1260. Richard Pittman’s New England Philharmonic features the fabulous Triple Helix in Martinu’s Triple Concerto (April 30, Tsai Performance Center); call (617) 868-1222.

Oboist Peggy Pearson’s Winsor Music offers works by Clara Schumann and Brahms and a world premiere of Three Chorale Preludes by John Harbison, John Heiss, and Peter Child (Follen Church, Lexington, April 9); call (781) 863-2861. The Boston Chamber Music Society’s final spring program, at Boston’s Benjamin Franklin Institute, includes Françaix, Mendelssohn, and Brahms (April 30 and May 1); call (617) 349-0086. The Borromeo String Quartet plays Schoenberg and Dvorák at the Gardner Museum (April 10); call (617) 278-5102.

Martin Pearlman’s period-instrument Boston Baroque has a Beethoven/Haydn program (Jordan Hall, May 5 and 7); call (617) 484-9200. And looking further ahead (and further back), the Boston Early Music Festival makes its biennial appearance with "East Meets West: Germany, Russia, and the Baltic States" (June 13 through 19), an event whose highlight is the world premiere of Johann Mattheson’s 1710 opera Boris Goudenow. Tickets will be scarce; call (617) 661-1812.