Boston Lyric Opera - The Handmaid's Tale Reviews
26 April 2024
Michelle Trainor (Ofglen), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Offed)
Jennifer Johnson Cano (Offed)
Jessica Johnson Brock (Aunt), Kathryn Skemp Moran (Ofwarren)
Jennifer Johnson Cano (Offed), David Cushing (The Commander)
Chelsea Basler (Moira), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Offed)

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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.
Production details
Cast
Cano, Worra, Zifchak, DiBattista, Cushing, Trainor
(c) Angus (d) Bogart
Performance dates
3, 5(m), 9, 11 May 2019
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