Press Releases

2012/13

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2011/12
June 15 BLO Strengthens Board with Seven New Members
June 12 BLO Appoints Dan Duro Managing Director
March 22 Boston Lyric Opera presents The Inspector
March 6 BLO Announces 2012/2013 Season
February 16 Boston Lyric Opera presents Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
January 18 Haunting New Opera Annex  Onstage at the JFK Presidential Library & Museum February 2012
November 14 Boston Lyric Opera Achieves Record 2010-2011 Fundraising Year
October 20 Boston Lyric Opera Announces Emerging Artists Initiative
September 22 BLO opens 35th Anniversary Season with daring new production of Verdi’s Macbeth
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2010/11
August 8 Bank of America is Lead Corporate Supporter of Music! Words! Opera! at Boston Lyric Opera
July 18 Boston Lyric Opera Performs with Landmarks Orchestra August 3 at DCR Hatch Shell
June 24 BLO Artistic Advisor John Conklin is Recipient of 2011 NEA Opera Honors
May 23 Boston Lyric Opera Adds Music! Words! Opera! Curriculum to Educational Offerings
April 26 Opera America Conference 2011 Opera Entrepreneurship: Building On Tradition
April 6 Britten and The Bard: Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
March 31 The celluloid Shakespeare: Interpreting the Bard through Silver Screen Scores
March 25 Boston Lyric Opera Announces Another Season Of Stellar Casting & Striking Productions For 2011-12
March 14  Boston explores the fantastical dreamscape of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
February 28 The Bard and Britten converge in Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
February 16 Agrippina’s three countertenors join costume talk at the Boston Public Library
February 9 Handel, History and Hollywood! BLO hosts special Signature Seminar about Agrippina
January 24 The elegance of Agrippina at Boston Public Library
January 14 BLO’s elegant, insidious Agrippina opens March 11
January 4 Federal and local support for BLO’s Opera Annex
December 30 Quick reference for The Emperor of Atlantis, opening February 1
December 22 BLO brings Hansel and Gretel to schools and families February 27 – March 10
December 17 Art, tyranny and the indomitable human spirit at the BPL Jan. 19
December 15 BLO presents rarely-performed Emperor of Atlantis with world premiere prologue
December 9 Explore the process: Rehearsal at Theresienstadt, 1944
November 29 Tickets for Hansel and Gretel for Families on Sale Dec. 1
November 11 BLO announces winners of Aria Contest for teens
October 28 BLO announces judges and finalists for Aria Contest November 6
October 22 BLO launches BLO Bunch for students
October 21 Boston Lyric Opera offers showing of Aida for high school groups at Coolidge Corner Theatre
October 14 Go behind the curtain of BLO at FREE Open House November 6
October 13 Jealousy, lust, deception and death at the Boston Public Library October 19
October 13 Boston Lyric Opera Presents Tosca November 5
September 7 BLO’s October 16 Gala a 21st Birthday Bash for Notorious Emperor
August 23 New Director of Marketing Joins BLO
July 29 BLO to co-host 2011 OPERA America Conference
June 23 BLO welcomes David Angus as new Music Director
May 6 BLO Lighting Designer nominated for Tony for work in NYC
May 4 BLO announces second annual Aria Contest for Teens
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