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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
Odyssey Opera, in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), presents the New England premiere of Dominick Argento’s opera The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, on Friday, April 5, 2024, ay the Huntington Theater in Poe’s birthplace of Boston. For one-night only, the Grammy Award-winning conductor Gil Rose leads a formidable cast including tenor Peter Tantsits as Poe, the Odyssey Opera chorus, the acclaimed BMOP orchestra in a semi-staged version. A world premiere studio recording will follow on BMOP/sound. Synopsis and history HERE. Tickets HERE An interview with the conductor follows. FLE: We’ve talked many times, but I’ve never actually delved into your biography at all. So what guru or mentor formed your interest in in looking up unjustly neglected works? GR: Oh, Wow, it’s a good question. You stumped me right out of the gate. One person that had a big effect on me was the author Joe Horowitz. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
[…] death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition.” NYT 2021 For the Boston Lyric Opera’s production, Aucoin reduced the orchestration demands considerably, but according to our interview subject, award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss*, who plays the newly added role of Eurydice’s father, “…the sound is quite incredible.” The show runs March 1st through the 10th at the Huntington Theater. Tickets HERE. FLE: Mark, I didn’t know there was a father in this legend. MSD: The librettist Sarah Ruhl added the role of Eurydice’s father. The relationship between the two is quite profound and goes into some detail. I take the father to be what Bob Carlisle describes in his famous song, “Butterfly Kisses,” and that is the profound love between a father and a daughter. There’s a lot in the story […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-22 15:38:38
The Boston Lyric Opera’s charming production of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’s only surviving opera, The Anonymous Lover (1780), ran at the Huntington Theater last weekend. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] island of Guadeloupe) to a French plantation owner and a woman enslaved to his wife and known as “Ninon.” The opera, first performed in or around 1780, is entitled L’Amant anonyme, and I found it delightful, thanks in part to a team of performers led by the internationally renowned soprano Nicole Cabell. In February, the work will be given three performances, with the dialogue in English (and with surtitles), by Boston Lyric Opera at the Huntington Theatre. Nineteenth century: Some unfamiliar yet often very engaging early nineteenth-century operas got first (or first adequate) recordings, including Meyerbeer’s early Jephtas Gelübde (Jephthah’s Vow, 1812), Cherubini’s 1813 Les Abencérages (of which one tenor aria was previously familiar to opera lovers, from a Roberto Alagna recording), and Il proscritto, an 1842 opera by an important contemporary of the young Verdi, Saverio Mercadante. The Mercadante opera has won the award for best recording of a […]
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