Operas

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.

Opera (1791)
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Created by Isango Ensemble
Adapted and directed by
Mark Dornford-May
Music arranged by Pauline Malefane
and Mandisi Dyantyis
Presented by Eric Abraham and
ArtsEmerson
Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
October 21-26, 2014
Mozart with Marimba and a hint of Motown, a really energetic, fabulously fun take on the master’s late, great singspiel.

Opera (1853)
by Giuseppi Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
October 10 – 19, 2014
An intimate, passionate and beautifully rendered account of the great heartbreaker about a noble courtesan and her ill-fated love affair.