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Eurydice

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 7

Boston Lyric Opera Reinvents the Orpheus Myth with ‘Eurydice’
21 Mar 24 / The Harvard Crimson
The artist is present
15 Mar 24 / parterre box
Flawed staging, but compelling singing Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice at Boston Lyric Opera
15 Mar 24 / Bachtrack
BLO and Enigma Chamber Opera serve up a feast of music and drama
10 Mar 24 / The Arts Fuse
Myth remade as opera: Eurydice rules the tale, leaves Orpheus for dad
9 Mar 24 / Classical Voice North America
Boston Lyric Opera brings contemporary 'Eurydice' to vibrant life
9 Mar 24 / Edge Media Network
Cleaving Eurydice from Orpheus
9 Mar 24 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
The Anonymous Lover

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

The BLO’s production of “The Anonymous Lover” as a whole was simply delightfully charming and lighthearted
7 Mar 24 / The Wellesley News
A Valentine’s opera in the heart of Boston
24 Feb 24 / The Tufts Daily
Boston Lyric Opera draws on forgotten history with ‘The Anonymous Lover’
22 Feb 24 / The Berkeley Beacon
The Anonymous Lover is a joyous delight
19 Feb 24 / Broadway World
La Cenerentola

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

The disenchanted fairytale in Boston
22 Nov 23 / The Harvard Crimson
Beantown rags to riches: Boston Lyric Opera’s Cenerentola an unalloyed delight
17 Nov 23 / Bachtrack
It is hard not to be enchanted by Cecelia Hall’s Angelina
15 Nov 23 / OperaWire
Madama Butterfly

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 6

‘Butterfly’ undergoes sensitivity correction, but it’s still ‘Butterfly’
23 Sep 23 / Classical Voice North America
Float like a butterfly
22 Sep 23 / parterre box
A vision of metamorphosis
21 Sep 23 / The Harvard Crimson
A problematic update
19 Sep 23 / The Arts Fuse
Saving Butterfly?
19 Sep 23 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
A radical and interesting attempt to subvert racist stereotypes in one of Puccini’s most beloved operas
19 Sep 23 / OperaWire
Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Open concept
30 Mar 23 / parterre box
Harrowing intimacy
30 Mar 23 / Bachtrack
La bohème

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

If they could turn back time
5 Oct 22 / parterre box
Boston Lyric Opera gloriously reimagines Puccini’s masterpiece
4 Oct 22 / The Harvard Crimson
By reversing the order of the acts, director Yuval Sharon cast new light on an old warhorse
26 Sep 22 / Boston Globe
Champion

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

“Champion: An Opera in Jazz” — fought to a draw
23 May 22 / The Arts Fuse
Cavalleria Rusticana

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 3

Acustica rusticana: Boston Lyric Opera’s first-rate Cavalleria hobbled
7 Oct 21 / Bachtrack
Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Cavalleria rusticana’ is a triumph
3 Oct 21 / Boston Globe
Lack of dramatic fire, problematic venue defeat BLO’s “Cavalleria”
3 Oct 21 / Boston Classical Review
The Fall of the House of Usher

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Boston Lyric Opera falls into strange intersections with Philip Glass and Edgar Allen Poe
30 Jan 21 / Bachtrack
Boston Lyric Opera's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' tackles the unraveling American dream
30 Jan 21 / wbur
Boston Lyric Opera's ‘Fall of the House of Usher’
With the Jan. 29 release of Philip Glass’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on operabox.tv, the company will unveil its most ambitious and spectacular project of the season.
Fellow Travelers

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Flawed Fellow Travelers at Boston Lyric Opera
19 Nov 19 / Bachtrack
Director Peter Rothstein has delivered a production that seems to shoot electric sparks through the theatre
15 Nov 19 / Broadway World
Pagliacci

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Boston Lyric Opera's production of 'Pagliacci' is passionate and contemporary
6 Oct 19 / Glide Magazine
Dust off the cobwebs: a rejuvenated Pagliacci from Boston Lyric Opera
5 Oct 19 / Bachtrack
The Handmaid's Tale

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 6

The Handmaid’s Tale opera delivers in victorious adaptation
14 May 19 / The Huntington News
Opening performance of Boston Lyric Opera's adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale' creates winning formula
11 May 19 / Glide Magazine
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a brutal triumph as opera
11 May 19 / New York Times
Dysfunction, set in Boston
11 May 19 / New England Public Radio
No balm in Gilead
10 May 19 / Bachtrack
‘Handmaid’s Tale’ in a gym? Boston Lyric Opera transforms a new space
4 May 19 / Christian Science Monitor
Margaret Atwood talks about ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ opera
And why the dystopian classic still resonates.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ comes home to Boston. As an Opera.
Boston Lyric Opera is staging Poul Ruders’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel in a space that could have come straight from the book.
The Rape of Lucretia

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

BLO’s Lucretia a potent symbol
14 Mar 19 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Boston Lyric Opera does right by ‘The Rape of Lucretia’
14 Mar 19 / Boston Globe
Schoenberg in Hollywood

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 6

The whole fell just short of being a sum of its parts
30 Nov 18 / Opera News
Machover imagines beautiful mountain
25 Nov 18 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Tod Machover’s brilliant operatic treatment and modernist-like musical score shine
25 Nov 18 / Berkshire Fine Arts
Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood”
25 Nov 18 / Classical Review
‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a composer biography like no other
25 Nov 18 / Boston Globe
Schoenberg moves to Tinseltown in clever new opera
24 Nov 18 / Classical Voice North America
The Threepenny Opera

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 3

A muffled scream in the night
23 Mar 18 / Bachtrack
Boston Lyric Opera's The Threepenny Opera is on the money
21 Mar 18 / Broadway World
BLO’s cool Opry
18 Mar 18 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Burke & Hare

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 5

This new opera wins points for esprit de corpse
18 Nov 17 / Classical Voice North America
Highly successful enterprise from BLO
15 Nov 17 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Bring up the bodies
15 Nov 17 / Wall Street Journal
At the BLO, it’s the bodies in question
15 Nov 17 / Boston Globe
Attend The Tale of Burke and Hare: a world première at Boston Lyric Opera
15 Nov 17 / Bachtrack
Tosca

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Tosca’ combines convention, experimentation
19 Oct 17 / The Tufts Daily
Terrific Tosca! Boston Lyric Opera opens with Puccini
18 Oct 17 / New England Public Radio
BLO opens its new season with robust ‘Tosca’
16 Oct 17 / Boston Globe
BLO Tosca tells dramatic story
16 Oct 17 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Le nozze di Figaro

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 3

A wild and crazy day: Le nozze di Figaro at Boston Lyric Opera
3 May 17 / Bachtrack
BLO offers a ‘Marriage’ of true voices
2 May 17 / Boston Globe
Composer and cast carry BLO Figaro
1 May 17 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
The Rake's Progress

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Powerhouse cast lifts BLO ‘Rake’s Progress’
15 Mar 17 / Boston Globe
BLO does Stravinsky proud
14 Mar 17 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Greek

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 3

In Mark-Anthony Turnage’s satiric opera, patricide/incest taboos are no big deal
29 Nov 16 / Wall Street Journal
Oedipus shrugs in Thatcher’s England in BLO’s opera ‘Greek’
18 Nov 16 / Boston Globe
Œdipus by any other name...
18 Nov 16 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Carmen

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Love and Death in the Afternoon: Calixto Bieito's Carmen in Boston
28 Sep 16 / Bachtrack
BLO’s lean, very mean ‘Carmen’
25 Sep 16 / Boston Globe
Die Lustige Witwe

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

At the Shubert, ‘Merry Widow’ offers an era’s swan song
2 May 16 / Boston Globe
Die Lustige Witwe

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

Lolo, Dodo, Joujou: Their era ends
2 May 16 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
Werther

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

New staging for an opera of rich-hued sorrows
14 Mar 16 / Boston Globe
Singers deliver the vocal drama in BLO’s updated “Werther”
13 Mar 16 / Boston Classical Review
In the Penal Colony

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Boston Lyric Opera probes the modern psyche with Glass’s “In the Penal Colony”
14 Nov 15 / Classical Review
A harrowing story that’s worth hearing
13 Nov 15 / The Artery
La bohème

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 3

La Bohème rides new wave
6 Oct 15 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
A Puccini classic reimagined in Paris of 1968
6 Oct 15 / Boston Globe
Boston Lyric Opera breathes new life into ‘La Bohème’
5 Oct 15 / The Artery
Don Giovanni

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Duncan Rock redeems BLO’s ‘Don Giovanni’
4 May 15 / Boston Globe
Fine singing lifts BLO’s feminist retooling of “Don Giovanni”
3 May 15 / Boston Classical Review
Kat'a Kabanova

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

BLO offers Boston’s first staging of ‘Katya Kabanova’
16 Mar 15 / Boston Globe
Alvarez magnificent in BLO’s mixed premiere of Janacek’s “Katya”
15 Mar 15 / Boston Classical Review
Le vin herbé

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

BLO serves up a poignant, captivating performance of Frank Martin rarity
21 Nov 14 / Classical Review
Aesthetic reclamation of Tristan tales from BLO
21 Nov 14 / The Boston Musical Intelliger
I Puritani

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

BLO strikes a pose with 'I Puritani'
8 May 14 / Wicked Local Wrentham
Soprano provides the highlights in BLO’s uneven “Puritani”
8 May 14 / Boston Classical Review
Rigoletto

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Lyric Opera offers energetic, traditional ‘Rigoletto’
16 Mar 14 / Boston Globe
A fine cast does justice to an unjust world in BLO’s “Rigoletto”
16 Mar 14 / Boston Classical Review
Lizzie Borden

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

‘Lizzie Borden’ at the Castle, roiling beneath the veil
22 Nov 13 / Boston Globe
Die Zauberflöte

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

Appealing young cast lifts Boston Lyric Opera’s season-opening “Magic Flute”
6 Oct 13 / Boston Classical Review
Der Fliegende Holländer

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

BLO’s ‘Dutchman’ brings Wagner back to Boston
29 Apr 13 / Boston Globe
Fine singing overcomes heavy-handed Freudianism in BLO’s “Flying Dutchman”
28 Apr 13 / Boston Classical Review
Così fan tutte

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte’ is delightful
19 Mar 13 / Boston Globe
Clemency

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

BLO’s Opera Annex premieres MacMillan’s ‘Clemency’
8 Feb 13 / Boston Globe
Madama Butterfly

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

BLO’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ production soars despite flaws
9 Nov 12 / The Tufts Daily
BLO’s ‘Butterfly’ insistently, lyrically dramatic
6 Nov 12 / Boston Globe
Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' opens Boston Lyric Opera's 2012-2013 season
4 Nov 12 / The Examiner
Boston Lyric Opera launches season with a largely successful “Butterfly”
4 Nov 12 / Boston Classical Review
The Inspector

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 1

Boston Lyric Opera closes season successfully with comical “Inspector”
24 Apr 12 / Boston Classical Review
Il barbiere di Siviglia

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 2

Cutting it close
14 Mar 12 / The Boston Phoenix
Boston Lyric Opera’s “Barber” is a sparkling triumph
11 Mar 12 / Boston Classical Review
The Lighthouse

Boston Lyric Opera


No. of reviews: 4

The singing was uniformly excellent in Boston Lyric Opera’s taut production of this psychologically thriller
19 Feb 12 / Financial Times
Did they crumble into thin air? Only the fog could tell
10 Feb 12 / New York Times
Boston Lyric Opera serves Maxwell Davies well with haunting, effective “Lighthouse”
10 Feb 12 / Classical Review
BLO keeps a light on for the less traditional
10 Feb 12 / Boston Globe
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News & Articles

Boston Lyric Opera General and Artistic Director steps down
Boston Lyric Opera has announced that General and Artistic Director Esther Nelson has decided to step down after 12 years.
12 Mar 2021 / OperaWire
Boston Lyric Opera's ‘Fall of the House of Usher’
With the Jan. 29 release of Philip Glass’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on operabox.tv, the company will unveil its most ambitious and spectacular project of the season.
30 Jan 2021 / Boston Globe
Boston Lyric Opera announces reimagined 2020-21 season
The company plans to reschedule productions of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and Blanchard and Cristofer’s Jazz opera “Champion” for the 2021-22 season.
10 Sep 2020 / OperaWire
New BLO season will put opera back in the Opera House
This week the company unveiled both the details of its upcoming 2016-17 season and the state of its search for a new home.
24 Mar 2016 / Boston Globe
Boston Lyric Opera to leave Citi Shubert Theatre
Boston Lyric Opera has decided that it will not renew its lease at the Citi Shubert Theatre, its home for nearly two decades. Next fall it will move its productions to a temporary venue, one yet to be announced
11 Oct 2015 / Boston Globe