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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Darkening ‘Dream’: BLO presents Britten’s take on Shakespeare by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

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 01:16AM
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Second Life: ‘Death and the Powers’ from ART by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Tod 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 09:20PM
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ made stylishly comic by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

With 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 09:24PM
Friday, February 4, 2011

Nixon’s operatic journey East arrives at the Met by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — Before they had the music or a libretto, they had a title: “Nixon in China.’’

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:31AM
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Antiwar opera rises from darkness by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Viktor 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 08:43PM
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Opera from the edge of the abyss by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Many 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 11:30AM
Friday, December 17, 2010

Changes at the top for Opera Boston by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Opera 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 12:00AM
Monday, November 29, 2010

Purcell’s ‘noble torso,’ as reimagined by Boston Early Music Festival by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

The 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 09:29PM
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Critic's picks by Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

BOSTON 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…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:19PM

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