Operas

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.

Opera (2016)
Music by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the novel Fellow Travelers (2007) by Thomas Mallon
Conductor: Emily Senturia
Stage Director: Peter Rothstein
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District
November 13-17, 2019
A superb production of a beautifully written opera about the Lavender Scare of the early 1950’s, an anti-gay program sanctioned by the United States government.