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Opera Study GuidesOpera Study Guides
Opera Study GuidesBrock Poirier2025-10-15T15:03:51-04:00

Welcome to BLO’s Study Guides

Here you can find all of our study guides from previous shows and seasons!

Macbeth | Verdi
Carousel | Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Seasons | Vivaldi & Ruhl
Mitridate | Mozart & Cigna-Santi
Eurydice | Aucoin & Ruhl
The Anonymous Lover | Bologne
Le Cenerentola (Cinderella) | Rossini
Madama Butterfly | Puccini
Omar | Giddens & Abels
Bluebeard’s Castle & Four Songs | Bartók & Mahler
La Bohème | Puccini
Champion: An Opera in Jazz | Blanchard
Giulio Cesare | Handel 
Norma | Bellini 
Fellow Travelers | Spears 
Pagliacci | Leoncavallo
The Handmaid’s Tale | Ruders
The Rape of Lucretia | Britten
Schoenberg in Hollywood | Machover
The Barber of Seville | Rossini
Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Barcarolles | Bernstein
The Threepenny Opera | Weill
The Nefarious, Immoral But Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare | Grant
Tosca | Puccini
The Marriage of Figaro | Mozart
The Rake’s Progress | Stravinsky
Greek | Turnage
Carmen | Bizet
The Merry Widow | Lehár
Werther | Massenet
La Bohème | Puccini
Don Giovanni | Mozart
Kátya Kabanová | Janáček
La Traviata | Verdi
I Puritani | Bellini
Rigoletto | Verdi
The Magic Flute | Mozart

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