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Opera Feature: Should We Be Updating Operas So They Address Present-Day Issues?

Philip Glass’s librettist Arthur Yorinks offers his thoughts on whether and how to update an opera as the Boston Lyric Opera releases its revamped and filmed version of The Fall of the House of Usher.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: Arthur Yorinks, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Philip Glass, Ralph P. Locke, The Fall of the House of Usher

Opera Preview: Boston Lyric Opera Revamps Philip Glass’s “Fall of the House of Usher” for Today

How do you make filmed opera relevant in the Age of COVID? The BLO isolated the performers from one another and made E.A. Poe’s story the dream of an immigrant child in detention on the US/Mexico border.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Opera, Preview Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Fall of the House of Usher, Philip Glass

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “The Rape of Lucretia” — Bravi Tutti

The Boston Lyric Opera is mounting a fabulous staging of Benjamin Britten’s visceral opera.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Benjamin Britten, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Susan Miron, The Rape of Lucretia

Opera Review: BLO’s “The Barber of Seville” — An Exhilarating Triumph

Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Culture Vulture, David Angus, Gioacchino Rossini, The Barber of Saville

Music Commentary: 2018-19 Boston Classical Music Fall Season Preview (Orchestras, Opera, and New Music, mainly)

There’s so much going on in the area that’s good that it’s a challenge to go wrong.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Emmanuel Music, Handel & Haydn Society, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera

Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Arias and Barcarolles, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Leonard Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti

Opera Review: BLO’s “Threepenny Opera” — Neither Fish Nor Fowl

It would have been wonderful to have seen either a faithful version of Threepenny Opera in German or a boldly conceived contemporary version.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Culture Vulture, James Darrah, Kurt-Weill, Threepenny Opera

Opera Preview: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Threepenny Opera” — A Reflection of Brutal Times

“You can be certain that when the show begins and you hear “Mack the Knife,” the choreography will suggest scenes of slashing and murdering.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Popular Music, Preview Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Boston-Lyric-Opera, David Angus, The Threepenny Opera

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Tosca”

For my taste, too much of the stage action during Friday’s performance was stiff and shopworn.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Crystal Manich, Tosca

Commentary: 2017-18 Orchestral, Opera, and New Music Season Preview

Some institutions’ offerings aren’t as challenging as they could be, but there’s a healthy balance between the familiar and new.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, and Brahms Society Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Bach, Beethoven, Boston Baroque, Boston New Music Festival, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Boston-Musica-Viva, Celebrity-Series, Center for New Music, Collage New Music, Guerilla Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, Lexington Symphony, NEC orchestras, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

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