Opera Boston
Opera Boston was an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specialized in less-frequently heard repertoire as well as modern works or opera premieres, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children both in schools and after-school programs throughout the Boston area.
After eight years, it was announced on 23 December 2011 that Opera Boston would cease operations on 1 January 2012. Board chairman Winifred Gray and president Gregory Bulger cited "an insurmountable budget deficit" as the reason.
Its home base was the Cutler Majestic Theatre, a 1903 Beaux-Arts opera house designed by architect John Galen Howard.
In addition to its regular season the company mounted an "Opera Unlimited Festival" which presented 20th and 21st century chamber opera in an outdoor setting, free of charge. The Festival also commissioned new works.
Productions
Dates in parentheses are the dates of the Opera Boston production. The list is limited to only those works which are not part of the standard repertory.- June 2003 Opera Unlimited
- *Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès
- *Full Moon in March by John Harbison
- *Touissaint Before the Spirits by Elena Ruehr
- *The Cask of Amontillado by Daniel Pinkham
- *Garden Party by Daniel Pinkham
- 2003-2004 Season
- *Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- *Nixon in China by John Adams
- *Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi
- 2004-2005 Season
- *La Vie parisienne by Jacques Offenbach
- *Alceste by Christoph Wilibald Gluck
- *The Crucible by Robert Ward
- 2005-2006 Season
- *The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti
- *L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier
- *Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti
- June 2006 Opera Unlimited
- *Angels in America by Péter Eötvös
- 2006-2007 Season
- *La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- *The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill
- *The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet
- 2007-2008 Season
- *Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov
- *Semele by George Frideric Handel
- *Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi
- 2008-2009 Season
- *Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber
- *The Nose by Dmitri Shostakovich
- 2009-2010 Season
- *Tancredi by Giocchino Rossini
- *Madame White Snake by Zhou Long
- *La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Jacques Offenbach