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2019-06-25 05:48:00
Boublil & Schonberg’s Miss Saigon. June 22, 2019.
[…] would come across. Despite all the misgivings, I thought it was a good experience. For a couple of years Anne and I went to quite a few musicals, but we have lost interest in the genre. This has not revived it, but I won’t mind going to another one if opportunity arises. Curtain Call. From left: The Commissar, Ellen, Chris, The Engineer, Kim's son, Kim, John, and Gigi. The Boston Opera House was built in 1928, about the same time as St. George Theater in Staten Island, which we visited recently. It was ornately decorated, and more tastefully – in my judgment – than the St. George. It hosts no (or close to it) operas, and the opera scene is Boston has quite a bit to be designed, with the “flagship” Boston Lyric Opera putting out four productions a year. […]
2017-11-07 01:42:09
The spirit of Finland was in the air at the Boston Opera House from the opening strokes from Guest Conductor, Daniel Stewart's baton, through the final cadences of Sibelius' "Fifth Symphony." Boston Ballet kicked off its 2017-2018 season with two contemporary pieces.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-05 16:02:52
Remembering Boston’s Divine Sarah
With opera returning last week to the Boston Opera House thanks to Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Carmen, an older opera buff’s fancy turns to thoughts of the Caldwell era in that house, and perhaps as well to rumination over the state of grandly staged opera—or the lack thereof—in our fair city. Most will agree, I suspect, that the tenure of Sarah Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston (OCB) on Washington Street (and earlier at the Orpheum and elsewhere) constituted the golden age of opera in Boston during the last half century. The Opera House (originally the B. F. Keith Memorial Theater, which opened in 1928 and was the scene of movies and vaudeville until acquired by the OCB in 1979) never proved a perfect opera venue: the orchestra pit too small for most Wagner or Strauss, uneven acoustics, and inadequate space backstage and in the wings, to name just a […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-09-25 18:13:24
BLO, Bieito Take Boston by the Horns
[…] and revival director Joan Anton Rechi carefully defended Bieito against his detractors (see interview with BMInt here ), many of the marketing materials surrounding this revival and its twin production in San Francisco made much of the auteur’s legend in order to ramp up audience interest. It’s an understandable sales tactic—after all, stark depictions of the reliable commodities of sex and violence constitute Bieito’s stock-in-trade. Gratifyingly or disappointingly, depending on one’s perspective, I left the Boston Opera House on Friday night having experienced none of the jarring symptoms of theatrical malaise I’d been warned against and/or promised. In BLO’s hands, the production proved challenging, flawed but coherent, dramatically effective and often exciting, and not just in a titillating sense. In this judiciously abbreviated version of Bizet’s classic (much of the spoken dialogue is cut), and the action takes place in Ceuta, the Spanish autonomous city located at the far end […]
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