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. {…}
Boston Lyric Opera has announced the launch of a new digital platform, called “[insert:opera],” which will launch with two programs. The first, named “AT ITS (s)CORE” is a bi-weekly series where artists discuss their experiences in opera through conversations centered on a single piece of music. The series is produced by and conceived by stage director Melanie Bacaling. The first {…}
The Boston Lyric Opera will stream a recording of Bellini’s “Norma” from its final dress rehearsal. The company announced that the opera will be streamed starting Sunday March 29 at 3 p.m. The recording was captured on March 11 by 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston and its Grammy Award-winning Lead Sound Engineer Antonio Oliart Ros. The recording is set to {…}
Boston Lyric Opera has announced its 44th Season with four new productions including three company premieres and a Northeast premiere. The season opens with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” starring soprano Yulan Piao in her company and role debut as Cio-Cio San, tenor Zach Borichevsky as Lieutenant Pinkerton, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen in her company debut as Suzuki, and baritone Levi Hernandez as {…}
The Boston Lyric Opera is set to showcase Bellini’s “Norma” for the first time in 40 years. The production will be directed by Stephanie Havey with set designs by Julia Noulin-Mérat, costume designs by Charles Neumann, and lighting designs by Pablo Santiago as part of the production team. Elena Stikhina makes her debut in the title role alongside Sandra Piques-Eddy {…}
OPERA America has selected 15 participants for its 2020 Leadership Intensive Program. These leaders, which hail from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America, were selected from a pool of 44 candidates. The participants selected by OPERA America include are Derrell Acon, director of engagement and equity, Long Beach Opera; Joe Barnes, company manager, the Metropolitan Opera; Robert Boldin, artistic {…}