Monday, March 30, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: 3 Characters in Search of ...Vengeance? ...Justice? ...Love? ...Sex?

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It has often been commented that in Don Giovanni , while the work is ostensibly focused on the title character (the obsessive seducer, viol...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Get to Know Don Giovanni

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Background on Don Giovanni by John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN Don Juan and the statue of the Commander , Fr...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: BLO's 2015/16 Season — “We will always have Paris”

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BLO's 15/16 Season will feature Kelly Kaduce as Mimì BLO has announced its season for next year, and as usual, it's an intrigui...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Kátya Kabanová: A Conversation with Michael Beckerman, Professor of Music at New York University

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Prof. Michael Beckerman Magda Romanska, BLO Dramaturg and Associate Professor of Dramaturgy at Emerson College, talks to Prof. Michael ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Kátya Kabanová — A Sneak Peek!

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At Wednesday's final dress rehearsal of Kátya Kabanová , BLO artists brought Janáček's soaring, passionate score to life. Here...
Monday, March 9, 2015

DR. VON LYRIC: It Just Keeps Rolling Along

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BLO's production of Janáček's passionate and compelling opera Kátya Kabanová   is preparing to open; the first night is March 13. I...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

A View from the Rehearsal Room with Sandra Piques Eddy!

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Sandra Piques Eddy is an acclaimed mezzo-soprano and a Boston native. She is singing the role of Varvara in the upcoming BLO production o...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The Drowned Woman: The Cult of L'Inconnue

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A note before we begin... What is a death mask? A death mask  is a wax or plaster cast made of a deceased person's face. While certain...
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...