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Category: Opera Boston

  • Opera Boston to Cease Operations

    Opera Boston’s Board Chair Winifred P. Gray and President Gregory E. Bulger announced today that the Company is ceasing operations on January 1, 2012 because of “an insurmountable budget deficit.” Official Site | News

  • 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music

    Zhou Long was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for the opera Madame White Snake. The piece premiered on February 26, 2010 at Opera Boston. The Pulitzer Prizes | Opera Boston

  • Prodaná nevěsta at Opera Boston

    * Notes * Opera Boston's delightful production of The Bartered Bride opened yesterday at the Cutler Majestic. The setting of the opera was updated to Spillville, Iowa, just after the Great Depression. Most of the text was sung in an English translation, though some of the choral parts were in Czech, and somehow, this actually worked.…

  • Opera Boston’s 2009-2010 Season

    October 23-27 2009: Tancredi February 26- March 2 2010: Madame White Snake April 30- May 4 2010: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Ewa Podleś sings the title role in Tancredi and Stephanie Blythe is La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein. Official Site

  • Opera Boston’s 2008-2009 Season

    October 17-21 2008: Der FreischützFebruary 27- March 3 2009: The NoseMay 1-5 2009: The Bartered Bride Opera Boston is certainly not following the herd next season. 2008-2009 Season | Official Site