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Boston-Lyric-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

Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”

By opting to set Figaro as a straight comedy, Cucchi’s production glossed over the opera’s subversive edge.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Carmen”

Bieito’s vision – even if it’s not quite as racy as advertised – comes off better than any new canonical production of the BLO’s I’ve seen recently.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Calixto Bieito, Carmen, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Joan Anton Rechi

Fuse Music Feature: Best Classical Performances of 2015

Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Aga Mikolaj, Andris Nelsons, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Christian Tetzlaff, David Willcocks, Gunther Schuller, Handel & Haydn Society, Joel Sheveloff, Jon Vickers, Odyssey Opera

Classical CD Reviews: James MacMillan conducts Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, and Britten and Boston Lyric Opera’s “Clemency”

Two recent albums feature compositions by James MacMillan, one of Europe’s leading composers, as well as an opportunity to hear him conducting.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Benjamin Britten, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Clemency, Harmonia Mundi, James MacMillan, Nicholas Daniel, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music Commentary: Notable Classical Performances of 2014

It’s fun to recall what’s been played locally since January and be reminded just how rich the greater Boston area’s classical music scene really is.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: A Fine Centennial, Andris Nelsons, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Claudio Abbado, Die tote Stadt, Drift and Providence, Gil-Rose, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Monadnock Music, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Piano Concerto, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Salome, Samuel Carl Adams, San Francisco Symphony, Sebastian Knauer, Shall we Dance?, Simone Dinnerstein, Sir Christopher Hogwood, Tessa Lark, The Discovery Ensemble, The Love Potion, Witold Lutoslawski

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s Powerful “Love Potion”

With its Opera Annex productions – presenting unfamiliar operas in unconventional performance spaces – Boston Lyric Opera really seems to have found its niche.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, David Angus, Frank Martin, Harlow Robinson, The Love Potion, Tristan myth, Tristan und Isolde

Concert Review: The Boston Lyric Opera Takes a Fresh Look at “The Flying Dutchman”

The Boston Lyric Opera’s production of “The Flying Dutchman” may not the subtlest you will see — the Freudian elements are slathered on pretty thick — but the nervy dramatic concept adds to our understanding of the opera without compromising its core elements.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, David Angus, The Flying Dutchman

Classical Music Review: The Boston Lyric Opera — An Efficient and Satisfying “Macbeth”

The Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of “Macbeth,” with sets designed by John Conklin, is based on elements of a New York City Opera production and plays up the macabre elements of the story, which are many.

By: Jonthan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Macbeth, Shubert Theatre, Verdi

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