From BLO’s rehearsal hall to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to the Boston Public Library (BPL), Boston is buzzing with excitement for The In...

James MacMillan’s Clemency —a Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) co-commission with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Scottish Opera; and Britt...

A very interesting  take on the vexing question of "authenticity" and some points that are quite applicable to thinking about  h...

We've certainly had Rossini on the brain recently and our Music Director David Angus was perusing this facsimile of Rossini's origi...

HAPPY OPENING NIGHT, ROSSINI! ... and so we come to the end of our tour through the wacky world of Rossini ... now check him out L...

Looking for a little reading about Rossini to prepare for tonight's opening of The Barber of Seville ? Check out a couple of articles a...

I guess it was inevitable ... you really couldn't in the end celebrate Rossini without the inclusion at least one iteration of this (...

A disarmingly crazy and charming Rossini ensemble (from La Cenerentola ) strikingly staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. 

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Of course Figaro, the footloose barber, goes on to further life roles ... valet to the Count Almaviva (who has in the mean time married ... ...

Another "Una Voce" ... this one with a true twist. Indeed Joyce DiDonato thought she had only twisted her ankle after a fall duri...

So many fun and wonderful things have been happening in our rehearsal process since last I wrote. One of my favorite parts of the rehears...

Not for the first time Rossini lifted a piece of one opera and put it in another (but then again so did another supreme master of the theat...

Gourmet Rossini--a fine slice of echt Italian ham with a side order of tasty pickled herring followed by (and hoping this metaphor doesn...

I don't know ... I just kind of liked these guys ... they were having fun ... and they seem to be from Boston ...  

Some REALLY SERIOUS opera singers ( Hotter sang Wagnerian heavies such as Wotan and the Flying Dutchman ... Warren was famous for malevole...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSSINI  ... why does the fact that your birthday falls on a Leap Year seem so appropriate and fitting? You are probably...

David Angus ... watch out!

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