When Sir Frederick Ashton's one-act ballet (set to the D minor piano sonata by Franz Liszt) Marguerite and Armand was premiered in 196...

By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg La Traviata , a melodrama in three acts, was set to a libretto by Verdi’s longtime collaborato...

As we get ready for tomorrow's Opening Night, take a look back in time at a review of La Traviata 's Boston premiere. Who would hav...

by Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”...

We are just a few days away from Opening Night of our 2014/15 Season opener, La Traviata !  The excitement is building as the set takes ...

I checked out the interesting - if extended - Wikipedia article on " courtesans " and their history. BLO's Stage Director fo...

This time I veer away from the YouTube highway and stroll down pathways of my own devising. I guess I might call it phase one of DR. VON ...

By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., Boston Lyric Opera Dramaturg In the first volume of his sprawling 19 th -century novel, In Search of Lost Time,...