Boston Lyric Opera is pleased to announce its 2008-2009 Season which features Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann November 7-18, 2008, Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka March 20–31, 2009, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni April 24-May 5, 2009.
"We are excited to present a wonderfully varied season of masterpieces featuring one rarely-performed, one less frequently performed, and one well-known opera. All three productions are new to Boston audiences and will entice and mesmerize opera aficionados and newcomers," said BLO General Director Janice Mancini Del Sesto. "Audiences will be captivated by visually and musically stunning operas that enhance these tales of obsessive love and its consequences. We invite everyone to enter 'other-worldly' dimensions where anything can happen with these unforgettable and spellbinding characters."
BLO's 2008-2009 Season features several important debuts and many happy returns including Academy Award winner and Tony and Emmy Awards nominee Eric Simonson, Stage Director for Rusalka; the director/design team of Renaud Doucet and André Barbe for Hoffmann; conductors Anthony Barrese, Keith Lockhart and Ari Pelto; and singers John Cheek, Kimwana Doner, Bryan Hymel, Georgia Jarman, Gaetan Laperriere, Marquita Lister, Nancy Maultsby, Gerard Powers, and Christopher Schaldenbrand.
All 2008-2009 mainstage productions will be performed in the Company's home, the Shubert Theatre of the Citi Performing Arts Center, 265 Tremont Street in Boston's Theatre District. In spring 2009, Boston Lyric Opera will present Mozart's The Magic Flute for school children and families throughout New England.
This season is supported in part by The Calderwood Charitable Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. -- www.blo.org
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