BLO Street Stage

BLO Street Stage began in 2020 with a mission to bring live opera to communities safely during a global pandemic. Today our customized mobile stage travels across the greater Boston area to bring live music, free to your neighborhood.

 

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PARTNERS

BLO is proud to have partnered with the following organizations for Street Stage performances since 2020:

Artists For Humanity
Boston Baptist College
Castle of our Skins
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Fruitlands Museum
Fuller Craft Museum
GBH
IBA—Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción
Mass General Brigham
Museum of Fine Arts
The Greenway
The Trustees
Villa Victoria

The following artists have shared their extraordinary talent on BLO’s Street Stage since its inception:

Patricia Au
Chelsea Basler
RaShaun Campbell
Jose Arturo Soto Gamboa
Brett Hodgdon
Lovely Hoffman
Gerson Lazo-Quiroga
Nicholas LaGesse
Omar Najmi
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa Nzou-Mambano
Annie Rabbat
Brianna Robinson
Zaray Rodriguez
Vera Savage
Brendon Shapiro
Zakiyyah Sutton
Fred C. VanNess, Jr.
Kera Washington
Aron Zelkowicz

Since its inception, BLO Street Stage has hosted two World Premieres – “my name is Alondra” and MISOZDI YAMARIMBA.

“my name is Alondra” premiered in May 2021 as part of Poetry in Music, a collaboration between Boston Lyric Opera, featuring poems by City of Boston Youth Poet Laureate Alondra Bobadilla set to music by tenor and 2020/21 BLO Emerging Artist Composer Omar Najmi.

Original narrative MISOZDI YAMARIMBA premiered in August 2021, in partnership between BLO and Castle of our Skins, featuring original music and narration from composer and soprano Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa-Nzou Mambano, the inaugural Creative-in-Residence with Castle of Our Skins, brought to life by artists from Boston Lyric Opera and musicians from Castle of our Skins.

Artists for Humanity co-founders Jason Talbot and Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs with local teens designed and painted the Street Stage
Artists for Humanity co-founders Jason Talbot and Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs with local teens designed and painted the Street Stage
Artists for Humanity co-founders Jason Talbot and Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs with local teens designed and painted the Street Stage
Artists for Humanity co-founders Jason Talbot and Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs with local teens designed and painted the Street Stage
Artists for Humanity co-founders Jason Talbot and Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs with local teens designed and painted the Street Stage

BLO Street Stage Photos by Above Summit