Operas

Opera (1995)
Music by André Previn
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater District, Boston
November 5-8, 2026
A solid and evocative production of the opera based on the celebrated Tennessee Williams tragedy about familial vulnerability and brutality.

Opera (1840)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
New English Dialogue by Kirsten Greenidge
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Colonial Theatre
Theater District, Boston
April 24 – May 3, 2026
A truly delightful and witty rendition, reset from the original to Revolutionary era Boston, with some terrific coloratura singing.

Opera (1770)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi
Boston Lyric Opera
September 13-15, 2024
A superlative production, in every regard, of the amazingly accomplished opera by the fourteen year old musical prodigy.

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.