Boston Lyric Opera has announced the 16th annual roster of its Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artists Initiative. The 2025-26 cohort includes returning artists Alexandra Dietrich, a stage director from Freeport, Maine; mezzo-soprano Mary Kray of Boston; and bass-baritone Zizhao Wang of Qingdao, China. New members are soprano Claire Burreson (Seattle), conductor Clancy Ellis (Boston), mezzo-soprano Juliette Kaoudji (Boston), baritone {…}

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is set to present a new staging of “Song of the Earth” (Das Lied von der Erde). The work will be presented between March 20 and 29 and will be directed by acclaimed theater artist and BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart, who penned an original script that creates a narrative through line. The production will feature {…}

(Photo credit: Courtesy BLO) The Boston Lyric Opera recently broke ground on the renovation of its new Opera + Community Studios located at Midway Artist Studios in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood. The new arts space will be a 16,000-square-foot place where artists and community members from the neighborhood and across the city will create, connect, and collaborate. In a statement, {…}