Boston Metro Opera
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Boston Metro Opera is an American opera
company based in Boston, Massachusetts.
, eight East Coast premieres
, twenty-four New England premieres
, and three Boston premieres
.
2010-2011
2009-2010
Operas
Art Songs
Choral Works
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
company based in Boston, Massachusetts.
History
Boston Metro Opera was founded in 2008, and already, it has established a reputation for being "...a robust new company with a penchant for trendsetting productions" and New England's premier 'new opera' opera company. Since 2009, Boston Metro has produced fifty new works including eleven world premieresPremières
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, eight East Coast premieres
Premières
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, twenty-four New England premieres
Premières
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, and three Boston premieres
Premières
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.
Operatic Repertory
2011-2012- Invisible Cities (Christopher Cerrone)
- The Final Cause (Terence J. O'Grady)
- Lincoln: A Poetic Opera (George Andoniadis)
- Puss in Boots (Peter de Mets / Laura Andruski)
- Angel of the Amazon (Evan Mack)
2010-2011
- Glory Denied (Tom Cipullo)
- .Gabriel.Gabriel.Gabriel is an opera in two acts written by American composer Robert J. Bradshaw. The libretto, also by Bradshaw, was inspired by the composer's online experiences with social networking websites, instant messaging, chat rooms and email correspondence...
(Robert J. Bradshaw) - The Gift of the Magi (David ConteDavid ConteDavid Conte is an American composer. He has been a Professor of Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1985, and Composer-in-Residence with Thick Description since 1990....
/ Nicholas Giardini) - Amahl & The Night VisitorsAmahl and the Night VisitorsAmahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast...
(Gian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
) - Antigon (David Edgar Walther)
- Venus & Adonis (Zachary Wadsworth / William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
)
2009-2010
- Aesop's Fables (David Edgar Walther)
- The Face on the Barroom Floor (Henry MolliconeHenry MolliconeHenry Mollicone is an American composer and musical instructor. He currently resides in Saratoga, California.-Career:Mollicone is known for his one-act operas, including Emperor Norton, Starbird, and The Mask of Evil. One of his most popular works is the one-act chamber opera The Face on the...
) - A Hand of BridgeA Hand of BridgeA Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed - it lasts about ten minutes. It consists of two couples playing a hand of bridge, during which each character has a short arietta in...
(Samuel BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
/ Gian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
) - Le VioloneuxLe violoneuxLe violoneux is a one-act operetta by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Mestépès and Émile Chevalet, first performed in 1855.-Performance history:...
(Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
/ Eugene Mestépes and Émile Chavelet) - Les deux pecheurs (Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
/ CD Depeuty & E Bourget) - Lischen et FritzchenLischen et FritzchenLischen et Fritzchen is a one-act operetta with music by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by ‘P Dubois’ , first performed in 1863.-Performance history:...
(Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
/ Paul Boisselot and Poly Henrion) - Les deux aveuglesLes deux aveuglesLes deux aveugles is a one-act bouffonerie musicale, in the style of an operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Jules Moinaux...
(Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
/ Jules Moinaux)
Festival
As part of its new music initiative, Boston Metro Opera sponsors an annual festival devoted to new Classical vocal music called the Contemporary AmericanaFestival. Each year, the programs for this event highlight new operas, art songs, and choral works, chosen through an International Composers' Competition. Past festivals have included:Operas
- En Mis Palabras (Roger W. Ames / Jeffrey Gilden)
- Fox Fables (Peter Winkler / Rhoda Levine)
- Grant & Grace (Lon W. Chaffin)
- The Golden Ax (David Heuser / Gary S. Albright)
- Scene from The Magic Mirror (Polina Nazaykinskaya)
- The Quantum Mechanic (John G. Bilotta / John F. McGrew)
- Nora at the Altar-Rail (Jay Anthony Gach / Royce Vavrek)
Art Songs
- A Coney Island of the Mind (Randal Despommier)
- Alla Luna (Daniel J. Knaggs)
- Florida (Randall Eng)
- Four Retablos (John Beeman)
- From Nashville to Dalton (Rachel Devore Fogarty)
- I would live in your love (Michael Djupstrom)
- Love Letters from a War (Cherise D. Leiter)
- Songs of Edmund Waller (Richard Rice)
- Songs of Love (Paul Osterfield)
- Spring Giddiness (Christopher LaRosa)
- The Prairie Sings (Philip Wharton)
- This is What I Know (Bruce Babcock)
- Three Lullabies (Zachary Wadsworth)
- Three Reflections of Sister Dorothy (Evan Mack)
- Updike's Science (Brian Holmes)
- Voices from the Village (Jon Jeffrey Grier)
- Whalefall (Monica Houghton)
Choral Works
- Amazing Grace (arr. Paul J. Rudoi)
- Amen, Alleluia (Daniel J. Knaggs)
- Aus Lieb (Battista Pradal)
- Because (Mark Zuckerman)
- Blessings on Your Home (David Edgar Walther)
- Bogoroditse, Devo Radusya (Sergey Khvoshchinsky)
- Do not stand at my grave and weep (Robert PatersonRobert Paterson (composer)Robert Paterson is an American composer, percussionist and conductor.-Biography:Paterson studied composition with Christopher Rouse, Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson and David Liptak at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1995. At Eastman, he was a double major and studied...
) - He Who Eats My Flesh (Daniel J. Knaggs)
- Sacramentum (Erik Rohde)
- Three Spirituals (Robert S. Cohen)
- Thrice is Sweet Music Sweet (Paul J. Rudoi)
- To Music (Mark Frode Kilstofte)