The Signature Series

Boston Lyric Opera and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston present the Signature Series, a lively one-hour exploration of the operas in BLO’s Season. Each program in the Series focuses on one opera and employs a different art form including film, visual arts, theater and music to highlight a theme in the opera.

We hope you’ll join us for:

Tosca"Vissi d’arte," La Tosca, and Sarah Bernhardt
"I live for art" The fascinating, glamorous and appropriately dramatic life of the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt told through her letters, diaries, photographs, and recordings of her own voice. Arias from operas based on plays that provided her with her most famous roles—Tosca, Ernani, Cleopatre, Le Cid and, yes, Hamlet—complete a picture of this most “operatic” of actresses. Opera legend Joyce Castle will be joined by soprano Meredith Hansen for this theatrical and musical look at the Puccini opera and the “Divine Sarah.”

Sunday, September 26, 2010
2pm-3pm Remis Auditorium

Tickets on sale now through the MFA box office. Click here to purchase. Don’t forget our Signature Reception! See below for details.

  • $18 for BLO subscribers, MFA members, students, and seniors
  • $22 for nonmembers/general admission

All programs subject to change.

Also save the dates for:

The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits   Sunday, January 9, 2011

“Rehearsal at Theresienstadt, 1944”
Rising out of the very depths and horrifying moral chaos of World War II, The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits is both a biting meditation on the fragility and brutality of existence and a wry and ironic celebration of life's purposes. A look at the tragic performance history of the opera and its subsequent reverberations—illustrated by photographs, some of the compelling visual art created at the camp, and music from the opera itself, other compositions of Ullmann and an excerpt from Richard Beaudoin's commissioned piece to be performed with Emperor. He will be joined by members of the BLO creative team and cast members.
Agrippina Signature Seminar
Check back soon for more details!

   Saturday, March 6, 2011
A Midsummer Night’s Dream   Sunday, April 3, 2011

“In the Still of the Night”
The magical worlds of sleep, night and extravagant dream that enrich both Shakespeare’s play and Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream are brought together in an evocative collage. Selections ranging from Handel to Cole Porter and Ovid to Ogden Nash illustrated by images from the MFA’s collection are performed by singers from the BLO production and Boston-based actors.

 

But wait! There’s more! Mingle with the performers from our presentation when you join us for the Signature Reception follow each presentation.

Tickets for the reception are $50. For more details contact BLO’s Development Associate Kelly Teer at 617.542.4912 x229 or kteer@blo.org.