(Credit: Liza Voll) The Boston Lyric Opera has announced that General and Artistic Director Esther Nelson has decided to step down after 12 years. Nelson was well known for bringing the regional company to national and international prominence with a mix of bold productions mounted in traditional theaters and distinctive locations around the city. She was also the first person to {…}
Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) announced the January 29 debut of a full-length animated presentation of Philip Glass and Arthur Yorinks’ “Fall of the House of Usher.” The project, directed by film and opera director James Darrah, in collaboration with Spanish screenwriter Raúl Santos, will air exclusively on BLO’s operabox.tv. Created using hand-drawn and stop-motion animation along with curated artistic footage, {…}
(Credit: Suzanne Vinnik) On December 21, 2020, Boston Lyric Opera will present “A Winter’s Evening,” a seasonal concert which will feature soprano Gabriella Reyes. Reyes will perform a selection of seasonal favorites, classical arias, and Spanish folk songs. She will be accompanied by pianist and BLO Chorus Master Brett Hodgdon, as well as guitarist Zaira Meneses. Named one of Lincoln {…}
Boston Lyric Opera has announced its streaming slate for this week which features three unique new programs. It all started with the second episode of “We Need to Listen: Conversations that Matter with Celeste Headlee.” This installment focused on composers of color and a conversation with Nkeiru Okoye, Dr. Naomi André, and Dr. Isaiah Jackson. Streaming Date: Nov. 10, 2020 {…}
Operabox.tv, Boston Lyric Opera’s (BLO) new streaming service that showcases content for longtime opera lovers and newcomers alike, is set to debut next week with “We Need to Listen: Conversations that Matter.” The new talk-show-style series is hosted by Celeste Headlee and explores issues of race in classical music. In this new three-part discussion series, award-winning journalist, author, public media {…}
Boston Lyric Opera has announced the revamped 2020-21 season. The company plans to reschedule productions of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and Blanchard and Cristofer’s Jazz opera “Champion” for the 2021-22 season while Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretel” will be postponed for a future date. Instead, BLO will offer operatic content through outdoor performances in the fall 2020 and spring 2021, as well {…}
Boston Lyric Opera’s “Bedtime Lullabies Online” series will broadcast the finale of the first season on August 12, 2020. The episode will feature BLO Music Director David Angus joined by his wife, soprano Lee Bisset, to perform “Traume” from Wagner’s “Wesendonck Lieder.” Meant to bring calming music during a troubling time, “Bedtime Lullabies Online” is one of the series streamed {…}
As season one of Boston Lyric Opera’s “AT ITS (s)CORE” series reaches a close, its upcoming episode will feature director Sarna Lapine and Grammy-winning mezzo Kelley O’ Connor. The duo will be discussing their work on BLO’s spring 2019 production of Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia,” with topics such as Lapine’s theater-oriented approach to rehearsals, and O’Connor’s experience with not {…}
The Boston Lyric Opera’s “At Its (s)Core” podcast series will feature company Music Director David Angus in a discussion with 2019 Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Ellen Reid during its next episode. The episode, which will broadcast July 23, 2020, will be on the topic of Maurice Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe.” Angus and Reid will also discuss the impact they feel the {…}
OPERA America has announced the nine companies that will be awarded $100,000 in grants for commissioning operas by female composers. The recipients include Beth Morrison Projects for Du Yun’s “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” which is written by Michael Joseph McQuilken; Boston Lyric Opera for Ellen Reid and librettist Christopher Oscar Peña’s “The Desert Inn;” Guerilla Opera for “HER: alive / {…}
Boston Lyric Opera continues its new podcast “At Its (s)Core,” with this week’s episode featuring African-American soprano Brianna J. Robinson, and Cuban-American mezzo Zaray Rodriguez, as they discuss their experience as artists of color in the opera world. The bi-weekly podcast series is available for listening on the company’s website, as well as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. {…}
