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    BLO @ the MFA: MACBETH Signature Series & Reception

    BLO @ the MFA: MACBETH Signature Series & Reception

    Presented by Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

    October 2, 2011

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    Sunday, October 2 at 2pm

    Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    These provocative preludes to the operas in BLO’s season take place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and employ a variety of art forms such as film, visual arts, theater and music to highlight a theme in the opera.

    Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene is one of Shakespeare’s and later Verdi’s most vivid theatrical creations. Join us to explore its dramatic richness with performers and literary and musical specialists. Other operatic versions besides Verdi’s will be performed and differing cinematic takes on the scene by Welles, Polanski, and Kurosawa will be explored.

    But wait … There’s more!

    Join us for the Signature Reception immediately following each Signature Series presentation in the Museum of Fine Arts’ highly acclaimed BRAVO Restaurant. Mingle with the performers from our presentation while sipping cocktails and sampling tempting hors d'oeuvres inspired by each opera at this lively afternoon reception.

    Tickets are $50 per person (and are sold separately from the presentation ticket). The receptions often sell out - so purchase your tickets in advance!

    To purchase tickets online, click the link in the Ticket Info Box.

    For more information, please call 617.542.4912 x229 or email events@blo.org.


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        Museum of Fine Arts Boston

        465 Huntington Ave
        Boston, MA 02115

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        Tickets on sale now through the MFA box office. • $18 for BLO subscribers, MFA members, students, and seniors • $22 for nonmembers/general admission All programs subject to change.

        Info Phone: 617.542.4912 x229

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        October 2, 2011

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        2:00 pm

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        • Event Name: BLO @ the MFA: MACBETH Signature Series & Reception
          Article: Boston Lyric Opera’s bloody “Macbeth” holds up a dark mirror to our time
          Boston Classical Review - Nov 07, 2011
          By David Wright

          Halloween arrived a few days late Friday night at the Shubert Theatre, but the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth was as sinister and daubed with gore as any ghoul could wish for. Expand

          Halloween arrived a few days late Friday night at the Shubert Theatre, but the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth was as sinister and daubed with gore as any ghoul could wish for. Collapse

        • Event Name: BLO @ the MFA: MACBETH Signature Series & Reception
          Article: Verdi’s ‘Macbeth,’ set in a dark dream
          Boston Globe - Nov 07, 2011
          By Jeremy Eichler

          The dead never really die in Boston Lyric Opera’s exceedingly dark and psychologically driven new staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth.’’ They haunt, shadow, and torment the living - quite literally - walking alongside them, floating above them, and looming i… Expand

          The dead never really die in Boston Lyric Opera’s exceedingly dark and psychologically driven new staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth.’’ They haunt, shadow, and torment the living - quite literally - walking alongside them, floating above them, and looming in their presence as giant totems out of some nightmare drawn from the primordial recesses of the brain. Before the curtain goes up, you can see where things are heading. Bodies of the dead, tightly bound, hang by their feet from the rafters. Collapse