Boston Lyric Opera Announces 2017/18 Season - Elena Stikhina in TOSCA, World Premiere of THE NEFARIOUS and More!
by Christina Mancuso
- Mar 9, 2017
Boston Lyric Opera's Stanford Calderwood General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson announced today an eclectic 2017/18 Season designed to please die-hard opera fans as well as newcomers to the art form. Each of the Company's productions will be presented on a different area stage, starting October 13-22, 2017 with a new production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca featuring the American debut of award-winning rising global star Elena Stikhina in the title role. The World Premiere of The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare (a.k.a. Burke & Hare) by composer Julian Grant and librettist Mark Campbell follows November 8-12, 2017. From March 16-25, 2018, BLO presents Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's pivotal early-20th century work The Threepenny Opera. BLO closes its Season in May with Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, paired with his Arias and Barcarolles, to mark the Lawrence, Mass.-born composer's centennial.
Oratorio Society of New York Announces Winners of 2016 Competition
by Tyler Peterson
- Apr 28, 2016
The Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orli?ski is the First Place winner of the Oratorio Society of New York (OSNY)'s 2016 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition. The award was presented following a performance by eight finalists in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall on Saturday, April 9. Mr. Orlinski is the first countertenor to win the Oratorio-Solo Competition, the only competition to focus exclusively on oratorio singing and now in its 39th year. The full list of finalists and prizes is:
Boston Lyric Opera to Present WERTHER, Today
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 11, 2016
Boston, MA – February 16, 2016 – Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) unleashes Jules Massenet's melodic, romantic French opera Werther from its late 18th Century German source material, bringing it to an early-20th-Century arrondissement outside Paris as part of BLO's French-inspired season. This new production of Werther opens March 11 for a five-performance run at Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre in Boston.
BLO Premieres Opera Annex Production of IN THE PENAL COLONY Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 11, 2015
Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) premieres its Opera Annex production of Philip Glass'sdark, thought-provoking In the Penal Colony at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts, directed by BLO Emerging Artist alumnus R. B. Schlather and running tonight, November 11-15, 2015.
BLO Premieres Opera Annex Production of IN THE PENAL COLONY, 11/11
by Christina Mancuso
- Oct 20, 2015
Boston, MA — October 15, 2015 – Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) premieres its Opera Annex production of Philip Glass'sdark, thought-provoking In the Penal Colony at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts, directed by BLO Emerging Artist alumnus R. B. Schlather and running November 11-15, 2015. The one-act, three-character chamber opera (which Glass dubbed a “pocket opera” for its small cast and musical ensemble, and its 90-minute running time), is based on the 1914 Franz Kafka short story: a pitch-black fable about crime and a very unusual punishment.
Boston Lyric Opera to Perform Philip Glass's IN THE PENAL COLONY, 11/11
by Matt Smith
- Oct 16, 2015
Boston, MA — October 15, 2015 – Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) premieres its Opera Annex production of Philip Glass's dark, thought-provoking In the Penal Colony at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts, directed by BLO Emerging Artist alumnus R. B. Schlather and running November 11-15, 2015. The one-act, three-character chamber opera (which Glass dubbed a “pocket opera” for its small cast and musical ensemble, and its 90-minute running time), is based on the 1914 Franz Kafka short story: a pitch-black fable about crime and a very unusual punishment.
Boston Lyric Opera to Stage IN THE PENAL COLONY in The Cyclorama, 11/11
by Matt Smith
- Jul 30, 2015
Boston Lyric Opera today announced the location for its Opera Annex production of Philip Glass' In The Penal Colony. The one-act, two-character chamber opera based on a 1914 Franz Kafka short story will be staged in The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts from November 11-15, 2015. Tickets for In the Penal Colony and all of BLO's 2015/16 Season shows go on sale to the public Friday, July 31.
An Evening With Cole Porter at Boston Pops
by Nancy Grossman
- Jun 10, 2010
Broadway stars Kelli O'Hara and Jason Danieley are the featured performers, along with Vocal Fellows of The Tanglewood Music Center and dancers from The Boston Conservatory, in a Cole Porter tribute.
BMO Presents Cosi Fan Tutte At Tsai Performance Center 8/5, 8/7, 8/9
by Charlie Piane
- Aug 9, 2009
Boston area audiences will experience a timeless Mozart masterpiece when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents their summer 2009 production, Cosi Fan Tutte. Playing at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University for three performances only, August 5, 7 and 9, this modern adaptation of Mozart's popular opera about contradictions of the heart features today's rising stars.
Motzart Adaptation COSI FAN TUTTE Comes To BMO This Summer 8/5-9
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- Aug 5, 2009
Boston area audiences will experience a timeless Mozart masterpiece when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents their summer 2009 production, Cosi Fan Tutte. Playing at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University for three performances only, August 5, 7 and 9, this modern adaptation of Mozart's popular opera about contradictions of the heart features today's rising stars.
BMO Presents Cosi Fan Tutte At Tsai Performance Center 8/5, 8/7, 8/9
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- Aug 5, 2009
Boston area audiences will experience a timeless Mozart masterpiece when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents their summer 2009 production, Cosi Fan Tutte. Playing at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University for three performances only, August 5, 7 and 9, this modern adaptation of Mozart's popular opera about contradictions of the heart features today's rising stars.
Motzart Adaptation COSI FAN TUTTE Comes To BMO This Summer 8/5-9
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Apr 28, 2009
Boston area audiences will experience a timeless Mozart masterpiece when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents their summer 2009 production, Cosi Fan Tutte. Playing at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University for three performances only, August 5, 7 and 9, this modern adaptation of Mozart's popular opera about contradictions of the heart features today's rising stars.
BMO Presents Cosi Fan Tutte At Tsai Performance Center 8/5, 8/7, 8/9
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Apr 14, 2009
Boston area audiences will experience a timeless Mozart masterpiece when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents their summer 2009 production, Cosi Fan Tutte. Playing at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University for three performances only, August 5, 7 and 9, this modern adaptation of Mozart's popular opera about contradictions of the heart features today's rising stars.
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