Today, let's look at a few examples of how the story of Tristan and Isolde has been told across many genres of performance. Tristan ...

By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., Boston Lyric Opera Dramaturg Tristan   and   Iseult , as depicted by   Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922...

We are in the midst of “tech week” as the Company prepares for its upcoming Opera Annex production of Frank Martin’s The Love Potion at Br...

By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask. Detail from the “Muses Sarcophagus,” first hal...

For at least the next few weeks (and at least in the Boston area), the "other" Tristan will be Wagner's long, overwhelming, a...

By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg Tristan and Iseult as depicted by Herbert Draper (1863–1920). The legend of Tristan and ...

I have been an admirer of Frank Martin for quite a while, and the quote above (from a review of Le Vin Herbé – The Love Potion , in BLO...

This Season’s Opera Annex production of The Love Potion marks the work’s fully-staged Boston premiere. It also marks another important dat...

We celebrated National Opera Week by showcasing some of the 2014/15 BLO Emerging Artists on our Facebook and Twitter pages. BLO helps nur...