Operas

Opera, with additional songs
Opera by Béla Bartók
Libretto by Béla Balázs
Arranged by Eberhard Kloke
Songs By Alma Mahler
Conductor: David Angus
Stage Director: Anne Bogart
Boston Lyric Opera
The Terminal @ Flynn Cruiseport Boston
South Boston, MA
March 22-26, 2023
A stupendously staged and beautifully produced account of the only opera Bartók wrote, with several compelling songs by the legendary Alma Mahler.

Opera (2022)
Music by Kevin Puts
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham
And on the 2003 film based on the novel
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Metropolitan Opera, New York, Live in HD
December 10, 2022
A superlative production of a very well-written new opera adapted from the novel about Virginia Woolf and two other women in different times and places, brilliantly synthesized into a fascinating amalgam of its different settings. Sung, played, designed and directed with passion and ingenuity.

Opera (1968)
by Benjamin Britten
A Parable for Church Performance
Enigma Chamber Opera
Live October 21-22, 2022 7pm
The Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston
Streaming 28 October 2022 7pm ET through 4 November 2022
Intimately staged, a beautifully sung and wonderfully played account of one of the three so-called church parables of Benjamin Britten.

Opera (2020)
Music by Matthew Aucoin
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Metropolitan Opera, Live in HD
December 4, 2021

A lushly orchestrated opera based on a contemporary stage play based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Opera (1964)
A Parable for Church Performance, Op. 71
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by William Plomer
Enigma Chamber Opera
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul
138 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
October 22-23, 2021
An intimate and wonderfully performed version of the short, allegorical liturgical opera by the great British composer.