Operas

Opera
Based on the opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Benjamin Britten
Adapted and directed by
Mark Dornford-May
Music Arranged by Mandisi Dyantiyis
Isango Ensemble
Arts Emerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater district, Boston
November 10-22, 2015
An interpretation of the Britten opera based on Shakespeare’s comedy, with marimbas and African choreography and dress.

Opera (1896)
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Shubert Theatre
Theater District, Boston
October 2-11, 2015
A version of the great classic set in Paris during the political uprisings of 1968.

Opera (1639)
It Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
(The Return of Ulysses To His Homeland)
by Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto by Giacomo Badoaro
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Boston Early Music Festival
Ulisse:
Boston University Theatre, Boston
June 10, 2015 at 7pm
June 12, 2015 at 7pm
Festival:
Various locations around Boston
June 7-14, 2015
A finely wrought production of the early baroque composer’s opera about the long-delayed return, after the Trojan War, of Ulisse (Ulysses) to his home in Ithaca and to his faithful wife Penelope.

Opera (1643)
L’incoronazione di Poppea
(The Coronation of Poppea)
by Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto by
Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Boston Early Music Festival
Poppea:
Boston University Theatre, Boston
June 9, 2015 at 7pm
June 14, 2015 at 3:30pm
Festival:
Various locations around Boston
June 7-14, 2015
An outstandingly good, and entertaining, performance of the seventeenth century opera about the Roman emperor Nero and his succession of wives.

Opera (2015)
Music and Libretto by
Matthew Aucoin
World Premiere
Directed by Diane Paulus
Featuring Chamber Orchestra:
A Far Cry
American Repertory Theater
Citi Performing Arts Center
Theater District, Boston
May 29 – June 7, 2015
A moving and beautifully scored, played, sung and designed opera based on the Civil War diaries of Walt Whitman, by a Boston-bred wunderkind.