And Britten Makes Four
Boston Lyric Opera (which hold’s the record for most unfortunate acronym) that it will go from presenting three to presenting four operas each year. It will also be the first season fully planned by the company’s new general/artistic director Esther Nelson.
From The Boston Globe:
“‘We’re trying to accomplish something of an expansion and a belt-tightening at the same time,’ Nelson said in a recent phone interview, adding that both the salaries of staff members and the fees paid to singers have been reduced. ‘Everybody is coming together realizing that times have changed and compensation is below what it used to be.’”
Glimmerglass's Orphee
The company is pulling some smart moves, including renting out Glimmerglass Opera’s set from the (stunning) 2007 production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice and using it for their production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. What’s more, the company’s fourth production will be Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, a rather ballsy choice for the little old ladies from Foster/Gloucester. But with several underground companies in Bean-town (not to mention the New England Conservatory and Berklee), it may be that fantastically off-beat choice that’ll draw in the tortoise-shell glasses wearing, black-clad hipsters and leave them opsters.
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