Opera (1892)
Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Steriti Memorial Rink
North End, Boston
September 27 – October 6, 2019
A circus-like festival production of the brief opera classic.
Operas
The Handmaid’s Tale
Opera (2019)
Music by Poul Ruders
Libretto by Paul Bentley
Based on the novel by
Margaret Atwood
Conductor: David Angus
Stage Director: Anne Bogart
Boston Lyric Opera
Ray Lavietes Pavilion
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
May 5-12, 2019
A compelling production of a contemporary opera based on the celebrated dystopian novel set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the near future, about sex slavery under a faith-based totalitarian regime.
The Barber of Seville
Opera (1816)
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Cutler-Majestic Theater
Theater district, Boston
October 12-21, 2018
A lively, nicely designed, very entertaining rendition of the opera buffa about the clever barber Figaro and his clientele.
The Threepenny Opera
Play With Music (1928)
Music by Kurt Weill
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
Boston Lyric Opera
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 16-25, 2018
A highly pantomimish staging, in English, of the darkly comic 1928 play with music by Brecht and Weill about low-life deceit, two-timing, and corruption based on John Gay’s eighteenth century ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera.
La Bohème
Opera (1896)
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Metropolitan Opera, Live in HD
New York, NY
Production Design: Franco Zeffirelli
With Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano
A very good rendition of the classic Zeffirelli production of the iconic opera, with a particularly eloquent Rodolfo.