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Midsummer Dreamscapes: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Dream”

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BLO closes out its season with a lucid production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Sex and the City (of Rome): BLO’s “Agrippina”

March 17, 2011
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Handel’s “Agrippina” describes the title character’s attempt to install her son Nero as emperor, or at least heir, to her husband (and uncle) Claudius’ throne. You might remember something similar from the last episode of I, Claudius (and Claudius the God), but Handel’s librettist Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani had his own take on things and it [...]

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Meta-Minimalism and OperaHub’s “The Four-Note Opera”

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It’s long past the short run of OperaHub‘s production of Tom Johnson’s 1972 The Four-Note Opera, but I owe a few words to this hilarious show from a company that’s doing big things in the fringe opera scene. This production marked the close of their season, as they move to rename and re-orient themselves (and [...]

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Death in Atlantis: The BLO”s “Emperor of Atlantis”

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Boston Lyric Opera is nailing it with its Opera Annex productions. Last year’s Turn of the Screw was a hugely anticipated smash hit and this season’s production of Victor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis is something of a surprise hit, continuing the record of sold-out runs. Obviously, the BCA’s Calderwood Pavilion doesn’t make quite as [...]

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Operatic Beastiality: Guerilla Opera’s “Heart of a Dog”

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Fringe opera at its best in a smart meta-satire…with plenty of sex and gore.

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MetroWest Opera presents “The Magic Flute” with a boarding school twist

May 2, 2010

More fringe opera coverage from Erin Huelskamp; MetroWest Opera sets The Magic Flute in a 1920s boarding school.

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Opera Boston’s “Madame White Snake”

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Boston lowbrow attends the first local opera premiere in decades.

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