February, 2023 | Boston Lyric Opera

28 02, 2023

BLO Announces Search for Artistic Director

By Jeanna Heezen|2023-02-28T12:33:44-05:00February 28th, 2023|

This month brought an exciting development here at BLO – the launch of an international search for Artistic Director. As I stepped into my role as General Director & CEO, I recommended that we grow the leadership team to support the ambitious plans laid out in our newly launched strategic plan. With a commitment to expanding the breadth of our programs, I am building support for the ongoing artistic leadership that Music Director David Angus and I, alongside our Artistic Advisors John Conklin, Vimbayi Kaziboni, and Nina Yoshida Nelsen, provide through the Season. As BLO continues to develop its [...]

Anne Bogart Immerses Audiences in the Contrast of Female and Male

By Jeanna Heezen|2023-02-14T09:27:32-05:00February 14th, 2023|

By R. Scott Reedy Not long after theater and opera director Anne Bogart was approached by Boston Lyric Opera about staging Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, she came to a realization about the Hungarian composer’s expressionist 1911 opera that helped shape her approach to it. “I had not given it much thought, but I was excited to do it because I love Bartók. His music is so dynamic and powerful, and this is his only opera. And it’s so dark and labyrinthine,” explained Bogart by Zoom recently from London. “But as I looked into it, it occurred to me that [...]

Driving to Siegfried in Tears

By Jeanna Heezen|2023-02-02T12:45:50-05:00February 2nd, 2023|

By Naomi Louisa O’Connell How much of a person can one ever really know? Our language struggles to grasp it: “I know you inside and out, backwards and forwards, tell me everything, I love every inch of you… All of me, why not take all me?” As a child, I suppose the first image that the word “muse” conjured for me was of some hovering, half-nude female floating in a shell. I don’t remember where I might have seen it—possibly a Monty Python cartoon. I do remember the first time I learned what the word actually meant; I remember [...]