La Bohème: BLO’s Version
Boston Lyric Opera’s version of La Bohèmerelocates the famous opera from mid-19th-century Paris to...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Sep 28, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
Boston Lyric Opera’s version of La Bohèmerelocates the famous opera from mid-19th-century Paris to...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | May 12, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
Don Giovanni premiered in 1787, eleven years after the start of the American Revolution and two...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | May 7, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
One of the most compelling characters of Mozart’s Don Giovanni is the figure of the Commendatore,...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | May 4, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
During preparations for the Prague premiere of Don Giovanni in October of 1787, Mozart was, as...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Apr 29, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
Although we don’t know the exact date of Mozart’s arrival in Prague for the production of Don...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Apr 27, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
Abert, Hermann. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” London: Eulenburg Books, 1976.The origins of the Don...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Apr 24, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
By the 18th century, educated women were beginning to question male freedoms and dominance of...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Mar 3, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
A note before we begin… What is a death mask? A death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Feb 26, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
Leoš Janáček’s Kátya Kabanová is based on an 1859 Russian play by Aleksandr Nikolayevich...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Feb 20, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
The scholar of Central Europe, Larry Wolff (2006) classifies Kátya Kabanová as a modernist opera,...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Feb 18, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
So often I imagine I’m a bird And can spread my wings and fly. I used to be so free and happy, But...
Read Moreby Magda Romanska | Feb 13, 2015 | Dramaturgy, Opera
The character of Kátya Kabanová was modeled on Kamila Stösslová (1892–1935), whom Janáček met in...
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