Operas

Opera (1791)
Music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
World Premier
New English Adaptation
by Kelley Rourke, Leon Major
and John Conklin
Boston Lyric Opera
Shubert Theatre
Boston, MA
October 4-13, 2013
A delightful adaptation of the original with a wonderfully appealing libretto in English, great staging and a young, capable roster of singers.

Opera (1879)
by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
Live in HD
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
With Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien
A robust, full-throated, heartfelt performance with, appropriately, a large number of Slavs on board.

Opera (1790)
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
English Translation by Marmaduke E. Browne,
revised by John Cox
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Performing Arts Center / Shubert Theatre
Boston, MA
March 15, 17m, 20, 22, 24m, 2013
A stunningly good production of the Mozart classic, with excellent singing, acting and staging; extremely funny and entertaining to boot.

Opera (1851)
by Giuseppi Verdi
Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
Live in HD
A delightfully inventive and irreverent new production of the Verdi classic set in Las Vegas in the 1960s, replete with a male chorus dressed like the Rat Pack.

December 15, 2012
Opera (1871)
by Giuseppi Verdi
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
Live in HD
The love triangle set in Ancient Egypt, embellished by a cast of hundreds, and Roberto Alagna’s tenor.