Thursday, February 26, 2015

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's Groza

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By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg "Alexander Ostrovsky" by Vasily Perov Leoš Janáček’s Kátya Kabanová is based on an...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: Another candidate for the most beautiful song ever written

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While searching out a video of Ezio Pinza for the Crossover post, I came across  a version of the aria "Ombra mai fu" from Hande...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Kátya Kabanová: Political and Cultural Context

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By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg The scholar of Central Europe, Larry Wolff (2006) classifies Kátya Kabanová as a modernist opera...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: BLO's upcoming Opera Night at the BPL, February 24

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I see that BLO, in association with the Boston Public Library, is presenting a program on February 24 at 6:00 p.m. titled "Musical Nat...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Love, Death, and Marriage

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By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg So often I imagine I’m a bird And can spread my wings and fly. I used to be so free and happy, Bu...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Kátya Kabanová: The Woman Behind the Story

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"Kamila Stösslová in 1917" by Unknown Drlíková, Eva: Leoš Janáček , p. 84 By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg The ch...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: Opera, by any and all means

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Sung  by an orange... Sung at IKEA... Sung by a drill.... Sung by a parrot... Sung by a nine-year-old kid... Sung by a guy a...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Intimate Eloquence: Kátya Kabanová

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"Leos Janacek relief" by Michal Maňas - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Stuart Leeks Courtesy o...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Get to Know Kátya Kabanová

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Janáček with his wife Zdenka, in 1881 Background information on Kátya Kabanová by John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor WHO, WHERE, WHA...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Contest Results: Favorite seasonally-inspired pieces of music from the BLO community

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Recently on the blog, we offered the chance to win free tickets to the upcoming Ian Bostridge event with Harvard Book Store to our communi...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Making of BLO's Clemency CD

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By David Angus, BLO Music Director When I found out in September 2012 that discussions were underway for a live BLO recording of MacMil...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: An (obsessive) winter journey with Franz and Ian

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On February 4th at 6pm in the Brattle  Theater in Cambridge, the Harvard Book Store in presenting a talk by the noted tenor (and, yes, scho...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Contest: Join us for Harvard Book Store’s author event, Feb. 4!

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BLO is excited to share with you Harvard Book Store’s upcoming event with author and tenor Ian Bostridge—and we’re giving away a limited ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: As promised, Streisand and Handel (and another treat)

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So here we have the other side of the crossover coin – two notable performances. But wait,  is "notable" the right word? Brave? ...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: Crossover and (probably) be damned!

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Having touched on Renée Fleming singing "Summertime" in my last post, the vexed question of "crossover" singing has ari...
Friday, January 9, 2015

A Look Back at 2014's Community Engagement Programs

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This Season, the Community Engagement Department at BLO has welcomed two interns to our team, Queenie Fang and Paige Revens. Both Queenie...