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Tweeting Verdi

by David King February 20, 2013

Opera with a Tweet. It may sound like a hokey idea—perhaps even one that could derail an opera. Why do we care about what characters are Tweeting at each other? Won’t it take the viewer ...

0 comments GE Theatre at Proctors

Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre have made a name for themselves—and built a nice following—up yonder at historic, lovely Hubbard Hall in Cambridge. If you have not yet made the trek to check them out, however, ...

GE Theatre at Proctors

A True Blockbuster

by B.A. Nilsson July 11, 2012

Your average (and I do mean average) summer blockbuster movie has nothing on an old-fashioned, big-assed production of Aida. No amount of CGI can match the spectacle of livestock lumbering across the stage as a ...

Glimmerglass Festival

Lend Me a Tenor

by The Staff February 22, 2012

Beginning Friday night, Curtain Call Theatre is presenting Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, a 1986 comedy set in 1930s Cleveland. More specifically, it’s described as a “screwball comedy,” a term that suggests something sophisticated, sublime ...

Curtain Call Theatre

Bull’s-eye!

by B.A. Nilsson July 20, 2011

Newly installed Glimmerglass Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello plans to nestle an American musical theater piece among the operatic offerings every summer, presented in a manner as close as possible to the original production. This summer, ...

Glimmerglass Opera

Mamma Mia!

by B.A. Nilsson July 14, 2011

Murdering your children always grabs headlines, and Greek mythological Medea long ago grabbed the title of most famous filicide. Her story varies from source to source, but by the time Luigi Cherubini got hold of ...

Glimmerglass Opera

Boston Early Music Festival

by The Staff June 22, 2011

We know, you’re thinking “the Boston Early Music what?” After eight days of wall-to-wall programming in its namesake city, the Boston Early Music Festival arrives in Great Barrington, Mass., this weekend to present two operas ...

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center