Opera Boston

Opera Boston is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in innovative repertoire and rarely heard works, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children, in schools and after-school programs throughout the Boston area.

Its home base is the Cutler Majestic Theatre, a 1903 Beaux-Arts opera house designed by architect John Galen Howard. Currently, its Artistic Director is Gil Rose.

In addition to its regular season the company has mounted an Opera Unlimited Festival which presents 20th- and 21st-century chamber opera in an outdoor setting and free of charge. The festival program also commissions new works.^[1]

Productions

Dates in parenthesis are the dates of the Opera Boston production.^[2]The list is limited to only those works which are rarely performed.

June 2003 Opera Unlimited Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès Full Moon in March by John Harbison Touissaint Before the Spirits by Elena Ruehr[3] The Cask of Amontillado[4] by Daniel Pinkham Garden Party[4] by Daniel Pinkham 2003–2004 Season Candide by Leonard Bernstein (November 2003) Nixon in China by John Adams (March 2004) Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi (April–May 2004) 2004–2005 Season La vie parisienne by Jacques Offenbach (October 2004) Alceste by Christoph Wilibald Gluck (January 2005) The Crucible by Robert Ward (April 2005) 2005–2006 Season The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti (October 2005) L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier (March 2006) Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti (April–May 2006)

June 2006 Opera Unlimited Angels in America by Péter Eötvös (North American premiere) 2006–2007 Season La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (October 2006) The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill (February 2007) The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet (May 2007) 2007–2008 Season Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov (October 2007) Semele by George Frideric Handel (February 2008) Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi (May 2008) 2008–2009 Season Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber (October 2008) The Nose by Dmitri Shostakovich (February 2009) 2009–2010 Season[5] Tancredi by Giocchino Rossini (October 2009) Madame White Snake by Zhou Long (February 2010) (world premiere) La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Jacques Offenbach (April–May 2010)

See also

• Boston Lyric Opera
• Opera Company of Boston
• Guerilla Opera

References

1. ^ "Opera Boston: Mission and Vision" at OperaBoston.org. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
2. ^ "Opera Boston : Operas: Repertory History" at OperaBoston.org. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
3. ^ www.ElenaRuehr.org. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
4. ^ ^{a b} www.danielpinkham.net. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
5. ^ "Opera Boston : Operas – 2009–2010 Season" at OperaBoston.org. Retrieved 14 February 2010.

External links

• Opera Boston website
• The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College