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Boston opera

THE BOSTON LYRIC OPERA PRESENTS PAGLIACCI

// Artscope Online, Exhibits, Music, Visual Arts

by James Foritano

Once again, the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has made a brilliant virtue of its present homeless state by choosing an unorthodox and roomy site in which they can design a stage that is more an invitation than the old-style elevated barrier. This stage was the DCR Memorial Steriti Skating Rink located on Commercial Street, just a short walk from North Station. We took advantage of the Green Line’s public transportation then climbed upstairs to enjoy an illuminated urban experience on Commercial Street as it circles a North End dotted with restaurants. Since we longed for the full immersive experience, we ignored the restaurants and headed for the advertised food trucks. I grabbed a heap of Indian food, then followed the signs to the back of the skating rink where we positioned ourselves on a picnic bench overlooking the Charles River as it flows towards the locks that lead into Boston … [Read more...] about THE BOSTON LYRIC OPERA PRESENTS PAGLIACCI

IMAGE: Christie Lee Gibson (seated), Brian Church, in The Rosenburgs. Photograph by Kalman Zabarsky.

The Rosenbergs (An Opera)

// Theatre

By James Foritano Waltham, MA - Presented by the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) and produced by Boston University and Brandeis University, The Rosenbergs (An Opera) is moving to its Brandeis University venue this Thursday, April 26, to run through its final matinee performance on April 29. Nearly every American knows, if only vaguely, of the controversial trial in 1951 and execution in June 1953 of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage by transferring atomic secrets from Los Alamos to Russia in the last half of the 1940’s, just after World War 11. Only a few Americans have seen the North American premiere of this Danish opera performed by the Boston Playwright’s Theatre just last weekend. An opera of a controversial trial for conspiracy in atomic secrets moves these fraught actions and their actors from the stage of reality to that of art, from … [Read more...] about The Rosenbergs (An Opera)