Wow! Opera Boston has announced its 2009/2010 season. It will include Rossini’s Tancredi with Ewa Podles and Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein with Stephanie Blythe. The season will also include the world premiere of an opera called Madame White Snake.
Opera Boston is one of the two opera companies putting on opera in Boston, and it is the more interesting of the two. It performs in Emerson College’s Majestic Theatre, a relatively small theatre where I have often enjoyed seeing operas. The other company, with a larger budget, is Boston Lyric Opera. They tend to do more standard repertory, but with casts that generally don’t interest me, in the Shubert Theatre. I’ve attended only one of their performances. BLO was at one time a small company on the fringe, but they became Boston’s primary opera company by default when Sarah Caldwell’s company fizzled out.
