An image of Werther's letters from a BLO promotional video For hundreds of years, the primary mode of communication between people...

Goethe's obsession, Lotte Buff. Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther , was based in large part on his own unrequited love f...

By John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor Franz Lehár PREMIERE December 30, 1905 at the Theater an der Wien Contrary to an often-stated...

Recommendations for further study by John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor The Merry Widow Reading Inventing Ruritania: The Imperiali...

Background information on the opera by John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor Poster for the first French production of Werther . By Grass...

Recommendations for further reading, watching, and exploring from John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor An illustration from The Sorrows of...

Elaine Alvarez in BLO's 2015 production of Kátya Kabanová . Photo by Eric Antoniou. Opera lovers may be familiar with the phrase, ...

As we approach the holiday season, let's take a moment to look back on our seventh Opera Annex production, In the Penal Colony by Phil...

Check out this special SNEAK PEEK from Monday evening's Dress Rehearsal for In the Penal Colony ! This Season's Opera Annex product...

By John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor In his short story "In the Penal Colony," it is often accepted that Kafka was referenci...

We sat down recently with Carl Rosenberg, an acoustician with Acentech, Inc. who consults with BLO on Opera Annex productions, including th...

On Wednesday, October 21, Boston Lyric Opera was honored to join the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Shapiro Celebrity Lecture Series in welco...

By John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor In my blog article on Philip Glass, I mentioned the multitude of forms, genres, performance styles,...

By John Conklin, BLO Artistic Advisor  Image courtesy of Stewart Cohen Nefertiti, Walt Disney, Columbus, Martin Luther King, Robert E...

La Bohème has left the stage, but the music lives on! Enjoy this sampling of reactions from students, audience members, and critics. ...

Dear opera goers, opera fans, and fellow "flaneurs" on the streets and byways of the Internet, I'm glad to be returning to ...