Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) performed Hansel and Gretel for the third-graders at the Eliot Innovation School in the North End on Monday afternoon. As part of the Boston Lyric Opera’s School Partnership program, Artist Classroom Visit 101, performers introduced the students to the art of opera with an interactive one-hour presentation. The children were encouraged Read More…
Lauren Michelle, star of the upcoming Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) Pagliacci, recently visited the Eliot Innovation School on Commercial Street in Boston’s North End. The BLO will perform its season opener, R. Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Sept 26 – Oct 6, 2019), as well as its season closer, G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare (May 8 – 17, 2020), right next door to Read More…
The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will perform its season opener, R. Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Sept 26 – Oct 6, 2019) and its season closer, G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare (May 8 – 17, 2020) at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in the North End. BLO used the Steriti Rink in 2018 for their performances of Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Read More…
The North End’s Steriti Skating Rink was transformed into a cabaret theater for the Boston Lyric Opera performances of Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Barcarolles, works of Leonard Bernstein. BLO’s Production & Technical Director Anna Labykina discussed the unconventional venue choice in a BLO article, Opera in an Ice Rink? The Boston Lyric Opera previously used the Steriti Read More…
Join North End Music and Performing Arts Center opera singer and lecturer Mary-Alexandra Onstad as she discusses the Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti.” This is a collaboration with North End Music & Performing Arts Center. Where: North End Branch Library / 25 Parmenter St. When: Saturday, May 19 at Read More…
The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will present a first-time pairing / blending of two Leonard Bernstein works, Trouble in Tahiti / Arias and Barcarolles as a cabaret at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink at 561 Commercial Street in the North End. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on May 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19; and at 3 Read More…
Boston Lyric Opera just released new details about its Spring 2018 Season. The upcoming season will include a new production of theater-staple The Threepenny Opera helmed in March by rising LA-based director James Darrah, and a first-time pairing/blending of two Leonard Bernstein works, Trouble in Tahiti and Arias and Barcarolles. Trouble in Tahiti / Arias and Barcarolles will be Read More…
The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) found the North End’s Steriti Skating Rink to be the perfect “big stage” space to rehearse for its much-anticipated production of CARMEN, coming to the Boston Opera House on September 23rd for two weeks. We stopped in to find the Stage Director Joan Anton Rechi actively choreographing about 70 cast members along Read More…