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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Brenda Rae
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Rae Masterclass\nSunday\, April 12\, 2026 | 3:00-5:00 PM\nBLO’s Opera + Community Studios\nFREE – Register for event reminders \nLEARN MOREREGISTERDIGITAL PLAYBILLLIVESTREAMBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Brenda Rae to lead a masterclass with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nBrenda Rae’s current season marks her long-awaited return to Oper Frankfurt as Lulu in Nadja Loschky’s new production of Lulu\, as well as Aminta in Jan Philipp Gloger’s new production of Die schweigsame Frau for Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Rae made her debut with Boston Lyric Opera as Aspasia in the company’s 2024 production of Mitridate opposite Lawrence Brownlee. Elsewhere\, Rae returns to the role of Gilda in Rigoletto both for Deutsche Oper Berlin under Michele Spotti and Opernhaus Zürich under Andrea Sanguineti. Recent European highlights include her return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Semele in Claus Guth’s new production of Semele conducted by Gianluca Capuano\, swiftly followed by Konstanze\, Die Entführung aus dem Serail under Ivor Bolton\, and Zerbinetta\, Ariadne auf Naxos on tour to Hong Kong. In Paris\, Rae returned to the Opéra Bastille for two productions\, as Lucia\, Lucia di Lammermoor under Aziz Shokhakimov and Ophelia\, Hamlet conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud. In Vienna\, Rae continued her reign as the Queen of the Night\, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Staatsoper under Alexander Soddy and returned as Norina\, Don Pasquale\, conducted by Frédéric Chaslin and latterly as Amina\, La sonnambula under Giacomo Sagripanti. \nBrenda Rae stars as Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment as part of the Boston Lyric Opera 2025/26 season. \nBrenda Rae is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to all members of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera community. \nWHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO  \nArrival & Seating \nDoors will open at 2:30 PM. Enter through the main door labeled "Opera + Community Studios" and go upstairs to the main hall (Studio A). Seating is general admission.   \nClass Format \nSingers will perform arias for the Master Artist and the public. After each sings through their piece\, the Master Artist will coach them on interpretive details such as vocal technique\, character choices\, musicality\, and language. At the end\, the Artistic Directors will moderate a conversation with the Master Artist.   \nParking \nEvent parking is available at Channel Center Garage\, 166 W First Street. Parking must be pre-reserved online . The event rate is $9 for up to 8 hours. RESERVE PARKING.  \nPublic Transportation \nIf commuting via the MBTA\, Opera + Community Studios is located between South Station (Red Line) and Broadway (Red Line). The nearest bus lines are the 7\, 9\, 11\, and 47.  \nDigital Playbill \nClick here to view the digital playbill \n \nStreaming \nClick here to access the livestream on April 12\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time. A recording will not be available.  
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-brenda-rae/
LOCATION:Opera + Community Studios\, 15 Channel Center St\, Boston\, MA\, 02210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opera Innovators Series
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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Anne Bogart
DESCRIPTION:Anne Bogart Workshop\nSunday\, March 1\, 2026 | 7:00-10:00 PM\nBoston Conservatory’s Studio 401\n31 Hemenway Street – Floor 4\nBoston\, MA 02115\nLearn More \nBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Anne Bogart to lead a workshop with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nAnne Bogart is Boston Lyric Opera’s Artistic Associate and most recently worked as stage director for the company’s production of Carousel. Previous notable productions with BLO include Bluebeard’s Castle | Four Songs and The Handmaid’s Tale. A professor at Columbia University\, where she runs the graduate directing program\, Bogart is the author of six books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then\, You Act; Conversations with Anne; What’s the Story; and The Art of Resonance. Recent theater works with SITI Company include Falling and Loving; The Bacchae; the theater is a blank page; Persians; Steel Hammer; A Rite; Café Variations; Trojan Women; American Document; Antigone; Freshwater Under Construction; Who Do You Think You Are; Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; Alice’s Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going\, Going\, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Miss Julie; and Orestes. Opera credits include Tristan and Isolde\, Croatian National Theatre; Macbeth\, Glimmerglass Festival; Norma\, Washington National Opera; I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Carmen\, Glimmerglass Festival\, Seven Deadly Sins\, New York City Opera; and three operas by Deborah Drattell: Nicholas and Alexandra\, Los Angeles Opera; Marina: A Captive Spirit\, American Opera Projects; and Lilith\, New York City Opera. \nAnne Bogart will be stage directing Mahler’s Song of the Earth as part of the Boston Lyric Opera 2025/26 season. \nAnne Bogart is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to Berklee students\, faculty and staff with a valid Berklee ID\, and invited guests only.
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-anne-bogart/
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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Melanie Bacaling
DESCRIPTION:Melanie Bacaling in Masterclass\nFriday\, December 5\, 2025 | 3:00pm\nBoston Conservatory’s Seully Hall\n8 Fenway\, Floor 4\nBoston\, MA 02215 \nView Livestream  | Learn more \nBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Melanie Bacaling to lead a masterclass with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nOriginally from Chicago\, IL\, Melanie Bacaling (she/her) is an active stage director and artistic collaborator in the opera industry. She is currently on the stage directing staff at The Metropolitan Opera and serves as Santa Fe Opera’s House Assistant Director. She has training in intimacy directing and is passionate about creating actively inclusive artistic spaces\, interrogating what it takes to decolonize the rehearsal room. Upcoming engagements include revival directing Carrie Cracknell’s production of Carmen at the Met\, associate directing Matthew Ozawa’s production of Madama Butterfly at Lyric Opera of Chicago\, and making her stage directing debut at Santa Fe Opera for the 2026 season with Madama Butterfly. As a producer\, Ms. Bacaling worked with Boston Lyric Opera to create “We Need to Listen\,” a series of conversations highlighting racial inequities in classical music and opera. A former Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist with BLO\, she also curated and produced the company’s podcast “at its (s)core\,” which delves into the inner workings of the opera industry and highlights voices of BLO’s BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. Trained as a vocalist and pedagogue\, Ms. Bacaling holds a BM in voice and BS in psychology from the University of Evansville\, and an MM in vocal performance and pedagogy from Boston Conservatory. \nMelanie Bacaling is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to all members of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera community.
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-melanie-bacaling/
LOCATION:Boston Conservatory’s Seully Hall\, 8 Fenway\, Floor 4\, Boston\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opera Innovators Series
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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Karen Slack
DESCRIPTION:View Livestream \nBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Karen Slack in recital  as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nPraised as “one of opera’s strongest voices at present–both as a singer and a shaper of its culture” (The Washington Post)\, GRAMMY® Award-winning soprano Karen Slack is celebrated as both an extraordinary performer and a change-maker in classical music. \nRecently\, Slack has been on a nationwide tour for her critically-acclaimed African Queens\, which continues into her 25-26 season\, including an orchestral version presented by the Naples Philharmonic in Naples\, Florida. Slack’s season engagements include world premieres of Tamar-kali’s new work with the Miró Quartet for the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of Kathryn Bostic’s Drag\, and Brittany J. Green’s Letters to America\, part of American Composers Orchestra’s program Hello\, America: Letters to Us\, from Us. She also appears with the Orlando Philharmonic\, Chamber Music Cincinnati\, and Spivey Hall. \nSlack’s Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price with pianist Michelle Cann in collaboration with ONE composer on Azica Records won the 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. In 2025\, Slack was featured on Shawn Okpebholo’s album Songs in Flight\, released with Cedille Records. \nSlack has performed at the Metropolitan Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Washington National Opera\, Scottish Opera and many others. In concert\, her credits include the Melbourne and Sydney symphonies\, Bergen Philharmonic\, St. Petersburg Philharmonic\, Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall\, and Philadelphia Orchestra. She made her New York Philharmonic debut in May 2024. \nA recipient of the 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence and 2025 MPower Artist Grant\, Slack is an Artistic Advisor for Portland Opera\, serves on the board of the American Composers Orchestra\, and holds a faculty position at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In the 2024-2025 season\, she served as Artist-in-Residence at both Lyric Opera of Chicago and Babson College. \nA native Philadelphian\, Slack is a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music\, as well as the Adler Fellowship and the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera. Learn more atwww.karenslack.com. \nKaren Slack is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to all members of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera community.
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-karen-slack/
LOCATION:Boston Conservatory’s Seully Hall\, 8 Fenway\, Floor 4\, Boston\, 02215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Maestro Riccardo Frizza
DESCRIPTION:Maestro Riccardo Frizza Masterclass\nThursday\, October 9 | 7:00-9:00 PM\nBoston Conservatory’s Seully Hall\n8 Fenway – Floor 4\nBoston\, MA 02215 \nWATCH LIVE  \nBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Maestro Riccardo Frizza to lead a masterclass with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nRiccardo Frizza\, Musical Director and Artistic Director of the Donizetti Opera Festival and Honorary Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir\, is widely regarded as one of today’s leading conductors\, regularly collaborating with the world’s most prestigious opera houses and orchestras. Highlights for 2025 include La fanciulla del West and Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Comunale\, Bologna; La Favorite at ABAO Bilbao Opera; Roberto Devereux\, Medea\, and Partenope at the Teatro San Carlo\, Naples; La sonnambula at The Metropolitan Opera; Caterina Cornaro for the opening of the Donizetti Opera; and several symphonic concerts with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\, Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna\, and George Enescu Philharmonic. In 2026\, he conducts in Naples for three symphonic concerts; Nabucco; Mitridate\, re di Ponto; and a concert performance of Aida; at the Teatro del Maggio for Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana; and at the Royal Ballet and Opera for I puritani. That same year\, he will lead a series of concerts in Budapest with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and embark on a tour across the Basque Country with the Euskadiko Orkestra. In 2024\, he was appointed Cavaliere al merito della Repubblica Italiana by the Italian President\, Mattarella. \nLEARN MORE\nMaestro Riccardo Frizza is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to all members of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera community.
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-maestro-riccardo-frizza/
LOCATION:Boston Conservatory’s Houston Hall\, 8 Fenway - Floor 1\, Boston\, 02215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opera Innovators Series: Norman Garrett
DESCRIPTION:Norman Garrett Masterclass\nSunday\, September 28 | 3:00-5:00 PM\nBoston Conservatory’s Studio 401\n31 Hemenway Street – Floor 4\nBoston\, MA 02215 \nWATCH LIVE  \nBoston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera are thrilled to welcome Norman Garrett to lead a masterclass with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists as part of the Opera Innovators Series. \nAmerican baritone Norman Garrett will return to the Metropolitan Opera in 2025/26 to perform Jim in Porgy and Bess\, also performing Crown in Porgy and Bess with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City\, and in concert\, Carmina Burana with Boise Philharmonic and The Epic of Gilgamesh with Bard SummerScape. Recently\, Garrett returned to Washington National Opera as Crown in Porgy and Bess\, sang The Reverend in Blue with the Lyric Opera of Chicago\, debuted at San Francisco Opera singing Abdul and Abe in Omar\, returned to LA Opera as Bob in William Grant Still’s Highway 1\, USA\,\nperformed Masetto in Don Giovanni with Houston Grand Opera\, sang Jochanaan in Salome with Des Moines Metro Opera\, and debuted as Macbeth with Opera Orlando. Concert appearances included Carmina Burana with Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall\, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Phoenix Symphony\, and selections from Fire Shut Up in my Bones with composer Terence Blanchard at Purdue University and the Krannert Center in Urbana\, Illinois. \nLEARN MORE  \nNorman Garrett stars as Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth as part of the Boston Lyric Opera 2025/26 season. \nNorman Garrett is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera. \nBoston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges David & Janet McCue for their generous support of Boston Lyric Opera in presenting the 2025/26 Opera Innovators Series.  \nThis event is open to all members of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera community.
URL:https://blo.org/event/opera-innovators-series-norman-garrett/
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