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Boston Lyric Opera’s Macbeth is hobbled by miscalculations
David Angus leads a taut, spirited performance, but Steve Maler’s staging of Verdi's first Shakespearean opera raises many questions.
Beantown rags to riches: BLO’s Cenerentola an unalloyed delight
Impeccable ensemble work in Dawn M Simmons' first foray into opera.
Harrowing intimacy: Boston Lyric Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Boston Lyric Opera decamps to a 1919 wharf shed for a production of Bartók's eerie two-hander, framed by four of Alma Mahler's songs.
Merrily We Roll Puccini: Boston Lyric presents Bohème in reverse
Yuval Sharon’s production of La bohème turns the opera upside down... with captivating consequences.
Acustica rusticana: Boston Lyric’s first-rate Cavalleria hobbled
The white hot intensity and conviction of the duet between Santuzza and Turiddu encapsulated the strengths of this performance.
Boston Lyric Opera falls into strange intersections with Glass and Poe
Director James Farrah and writer Raúl Santos' realization of Glass’ Fall of the House of Usher is a work of unbridled creativity, an engrossing film which might have benefited from a bridle.