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Boston Lyric Opera gives an arthouse cinematic treatment to Philip Glass’ opera The Fall of the House of Usher, debuting January 29 exclusively on BLO’s operabox.tv. This chilling film places Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic gothic horror story in the imagination of a migrant child as she journeys into t...
"The Murder Ballad of Mack the Knife" from Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. A startling array of vintage film footage from pre-World War II Germany underscores Daniel Belcher's 2018 performance of the restless, foreboding tune that recounts the gruesome crimes of the charming Macheath.
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"Largo al factotum" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville. In this video, the mayhem of Figaro the Barber's daily routine is recounted by Keith Phares in BLO's 2002 production in a visual tribute to absurdist painter René Magritte, with a nod to Monty Python's iconic animations.
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