Don Giovanni at Boston Lyric Opera, Conductor Anthony Barrese.
Photos by T. Charles Erickson.
Read Lloyd Schwartz's review here.
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- Resurrections
Back in pre-history (1964), a brilliant young Brit, a cellist (student of Benjamin Britten) and conductor, came to town and shook up the local classical-music scene.
- Springer vs. Nero!
Two opera productions overlapping at the Calderwood Pavilion exploit exploitation.
- Mad love
The destructive power of jealousy makes a good subject for opera.
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Photos of the Boston Lyric Opera's Rusalka at the Shubert Theatre
- German birthday cake
Tuesday's gift from Portland's Choral Art Society to German composer Felix Mendelssohn, on the occasion of what would be his 200th birthday, will be one of his greatest works (Elijah), and one of their biggest undertakings.
- Lift every voice!
Opera is the big word for 2009.
- Puccini goes punk
Perched on the lid of a lace-draped baby grand, a bobblehead quivers along with Christine Teeters's vibrato as she powers through a Tuesday-night voice lesson in the Steinway Piano Building on Boylston Street.
- The show goes on
Soprano Renée Fleming visits the PSO
- French kiss
Productions I attended at the Opéra and Opéra Comique would be rare in New York, let alone Boston — though some of the performers would be familiar.
- Almost
The Boston Lyric Opera comes maddeningly close to having a good Carmen . (The production continues at the Shubert Theatre through November 17.) Keith Lockhart leads a superb orchestra and chorus and a cast of plausible singers/actors in a compelling if not spine-tingling performance.
- 2009: The year in Classical
This was a queasy year for classical music.
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