Boston Metro Opera

Boston Metro Opera is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Contents 1 History 2 Operatic Repertory 3 Festival 4 References

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 premieres, eight East Coast premieres, twenty-four New England premieres, and three Boston premieres.

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 (Robert J. Bradshaw)
• The Gift of the Magi (David Conte / Nicholas Giardini)
• Amahl & The Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti)
• Antigon (David Edgar Walther)
• Venus & Adonis (Zachary Wadsworth / William Shakespeare)

2009-2010

• Aesop's Fables (David Edgar Walther)
• The Face on the Barroom Floor (Henry Mollicone)
• A Hand of Bridge (Samuel Barber / Gian Carlo Menotti)
• Le Violoneux (Jacques Offenbach / Eugene Mestépes and Émile Chavelet)
• Les deux pecheurs (Jacques Offenbach / CD Depeuty & E Bourget)
• Lischen et Fritzchen (Jacques Offenbach / Paul Boisselot and Poly Henrion)
• Les deux aveugles (Jacques Offenbach / 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 Paterson)
• 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)

References

Boston Metro Opera Official Website
Contemporary AmericanaFestival Official Website
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