Take three of classical music’s celebrated femmes fatales, add timeless songs about betrayal and revenge, and watch the vocal fireworks. Ars Lyrica presents Women on the Verge, the stories of women loved and abandoned, scorned and bent on revenge. Joining the Ars Lyrica ensemble to sing arias, duets and trios by Monteverdi through Haydn are Melissa Givens (“the vocal find for me…was Melissa Givens,” Opera magazine), Marie Lenormand (“gorgeous sounding,” Time Out Chicago) and Sonja Bruzauskas (“lustrous sounding,” Houston Chronicle). Matthew Dirst leads Houston’s premier early music ensemble in this exploration of passion and despair.