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Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “Un giorno di regno” — A Delightful Confection

May Odyssey Opera continue gracing Boston’s opera scene for seasons to come with such delightful performances as this.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: A King for a Day, Cashman Kerr Prince, Odyssey Opera, Un giorno di regno, Verdi

Fuse Opera Review: A New Virtual Opera House in Town

This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it’s almost an hour shorter.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Brookline, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Culture Vulture, MA, Macbeth, Royal Opera House, Verdi

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

Opera Review: Viva Verdi!

The Italian composer’s famous masterpiece “La Traviata” receives a production that is worthy of the opera’s enduring artistry. By Mark Kroll The Boston Lyric Opera has just begun a nice long run of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” and this is a good thing for Boston’s opera lovers. “La Traviata” finds Verdi at the height of […]

By: Mark Kroll Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Opera, Verdi

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