Under Esther Nelson’s watch, Boston Lyric Opera has been growing admirably more adventurous in a way that seems to be carrying its audiences along for the ride. This season opened with…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:16AMTod Machover’s new sci-fi opera, “Death and the Powers,’’ sets its gaze on subjects both ancient and ultra-modern. In the former camp is the question of whether the s…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:20PMWith the abundance of period instrument activity in Boston, Handel’s music has not exactly been underserved around town. Nevertheless, on Friday night, Boston Lyric Opera made a compel…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:24PMNEW YORK — Before they had the music or a libretto, they had a title: “Nixon in China.’’
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:31AMViktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis’’ is a work forever linked to the circumstances of its creation, in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943. At once a d…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:43PMMany of the best-known operas tend to drift free of their history, and are simply loved by audiences on their own terms. Others are not granted that luxury.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMOpera Boston announced today that Lesley Koenig, a veteran director and arts administrator with experience at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Ballet, will be its next general ma…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMThe Boston Early Music Festival introduced its fall chamber opera series just two years ago but it has already become one of the organization’s marquee offerings. Previously BEMF had o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PMBOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL For its third annual production of period chamber opera in Jordan Hall, BEMF offers Purcell’s much-loved “Dido and Aeneas.’’ The orchestra…
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