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Boston Lyric Opera

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is New England’s largest opera company. Founded in 1976, BLO is recognized for its artistically excellent productions of a diverse repertoire that entertain and inspire audiences and feature emerging operatic talent. BLO produces three mainstage productions at the Citi Performing Arts Center (SM) Shubert Theatre in Boston and a production of a fully staged, one-hour English version of a popular Opera for Young Audiences throughout New England. BLO’s programs are funded - in part - by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Learn more at blo.org



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      Boston Lyric Opera

      45 Franklin Street
      Boston, MA 02110

      Phone: 617.542.4912

      Fax: 617.542.4913

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      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        BLO leaves home with Britten’s “Turn of the Screw”
        Boston Globe - Feb 04, 2010
        By Jeremy Eichler

        The vocal performances were among the best I have heard in any BLO production of recent years. Expand

        The vocal performances were among the best I have heard in any BLO production of recent years. Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        Making Opera Cool Is Easier When You Have A Castle
        wbur.org - Feb 03, 2010
        By Andrea Shea

        "BOSTON — New England’s largest opera company is trying something new. The Boston Lyric Opera is taking a production out of the theater and into The Castle, a historic landmark in Boston’s Back Bay. “Turn of the Screw” opens there Wednesday nigh… Expand

        "BOSTON — New England’s largest opera company is trying something new. The Boston Lyric Opera is taking a production out of the theater and into The Castle, a historic landmark in Boston’s Back Bay. “Turn of the Screw” opens there Wednesday night." Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        ‘Screw’ tightens tension at Castle
        the edge BostonHerald.com - Feb 03, 2010
        By Keith Powers

        "The Boston Lyric Opera usually holds forth in the Shubert Theatre, but the company found a more foreboding venue to stage its production of Benjamin Britten’s mysterious and compelling “The Turn of the Screw”: the Park Plaza Castle" Expand

        "The Boston Lyric Opera usually holds forth in the Shubert Theatre, but the company found a more foreboding venue to stage its production of Benjamin Britten’s mysterious and compelling “The Turn of the Screw”: the Park Plaza Castle" Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        The Turn of the Screw
        Edge - Feb 03, 2010
        By Ed Tapper

        "To create the proper ambience, Boston Lyric Opera is moving its performing forces to The Castle on Columbus Avenue for its new production of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera, The Turn of the Screw." Expand

        "To create the proper ambience, Boston Lyric Opera is moving its performing forces to The Castle on Columbus Avenue for its new production of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera, The Turn of the Screw." Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        Lost Innocence: Unfolding Horror in Turn of the Screw
        The Boston Musical Intelliger - Feb 01, 2010
        By Bettina A. Norton

        '“I seek a friend —Obedient to follow where I lead, Slick as a juggler’s mate to catch my thought… and in that hour ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’…” This ominous text is from the libretto to Benjamin Britten’s opera, Turn of the Screw, to be… Expand

        '“I seek a friend —Obedient to follow where I lead, Slick as a juggler’s mate to catch my thought… and in that hour ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’…” This ominous text is from the libretto to Benjamin Britten’s opera, Turn of the Screw, to be presented by Boston Lyric Opera as an Opera Annex production at the Park Plaza Castle on February 3, 5, and 6.' Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        Scaring up an alternative venue Park Plaza Castle is the setting for ‘Turn of the Screw’
        Boston.com - Jan 31, 2010
        By Harlow Robinson

        Boston Lyric Opera turns the Park Plaza Castle into a spooky performance venue. Expand

        Boston Lyric Opera turns the Park Plaza Castle into a spooky performance venue. Collapse

      • Event Name: Britten's The Turn of the Screw
        Boston Lyric Opera's The Turn of the Screw
        ArtsEditor - Jan 19, 2010
        By Jonah Kappraff

        "Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is inaugurating its Opera Annex, a plan to present operas at alternative venues, providing new insights into the works." Expand

        "Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is inaugurating its Opera Annex, a plan to present operas at alternative venues, providing new insights into the works." Collapse

      • Event Name: Carmen
        Carmen
        EDGE Contributor - Nov 09, 2009
        By Ed Tapper

        French opera continues to be a curiously elusive genre on our musical stages. Whether it is the difficulty of the sung, French language, a scarcity of singers to do it justice, or a general decline in its popularity, it seems to have taken a subsidia… Expand

        French opera continues to be a curiously elusive genre on our musical stages. Whether it is the difficulty of the sung, French language, a scarcity of singers to do it justice, or a general decline in its popularity, it seems to have taken a subsidiary position to Italian, German, and even Eastern European forms---much to the dismay of Francophiles and true, opera buffs. With its sumptuous production of Massenet’s Thais a few seasons back, Boston Lyric Opera distinguished itself as our sole bastion of French opera. For its season-opener, the company chose the grand-daddy, or should we say, the big mama of them all--- Bizet’s Carmen.
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      • Event Name: Carmen
        For BLO, a potent new chamber “Carmen”
        Boston Globe - Nov 07, 2009
        By Jeremy Eichler

        Boston Lyric Opera’s general director Esther Nelson has promised more homegrown new productions for the company, and she is keeping her word. Last night at the Shubert Theatre, BLO opened its season with a new “Carmen,’’ presented in a stripped-down,… Expand

        Boston Lyric Opera’s general director Esther Nelson has promised more homegrown new productions for the company, and she is keeping her word. Last night at the Shubert Theatre, BLO opened its season with a new “Carmen,’’ presented in a stripped-down, theatrically intense staging by Nicholas Muni.

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