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.
Interview with Jim Mickle
Interview
I recently met with Jim Mickle, director and co-author of the soon to be released We Are What We Are, a horror film with some interesting touches.
We Are What We Are is slated to open this Friday, October 11th at Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge.
Romeo and Juliet
Play (1595)
by William Shakespeare
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Strand Theater, Dorchester, MA
October 2 – November 3, 2013
The classic love story in a classic Dorchester venue.
Eugene Onegin
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.
Coming Soon: John Singer Sargent Watercolors
Paintings
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
October 13, 2013 –
January 20, 2014
A repeat of the exhibition given at the Brooklyn Museum earlier this year, including holdings from there and from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, shown together for the first time. Not to be missed.