Current Season

Founded in 2006, Boston Midsummer Opera has set its sights on presenting entertaining, accessible visions of opera, both well known and unfamiliar, at the highest possible level and at a reasonable price.  BMO's talented young singers act their parts in savvy English translations, bringing operas both well known and unfamiliar to the delight of audience members both young and old.  The 2006 performance of "Marriages of Mozart" was hailed by Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe as "providing entertaining introductions to Mozart's masterpieces. Witty director Drew Minter also tweaked the standard English translations to make them racier and more colloquial ("I'm hot for your body")."  Continuing BMO's journey last summer, Jacques Offenbach's operettas, hailed in his own day as among the greatest operas in 19th century Paris, made for a fabulous summer night out.  Culminating in the famous "Can-can"! 

This season BMO will be presenting it's first full opera, Peter Brook's The Tragedy of Carmen, a gripping adaptation of Georges Bizet's famous late-19th century opera.  All of Bizet's most celebrated music is retained, with a pared down cast of four singers and three actors, and an orchestra of fifteen players.  To be performed in a superb English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me) this is Carmen like you've never seen it before— intense, intimate and bitingly tragic. The opera will be sung in English, in one act, lasting 80 minutes. Artistic Director, Drew Minter, again joins Music Director, Susan Davenny Wyner.

The Tragedy of Carmen will take place July 30, August 1, and 3 at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University. Artistic Director, Drew Minter, will give a pre-performance talk about the production one hour before each performance.

Our all-star cast includes

Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano
Stephanie Chigas, mezzo-soprano
Darren Anderson, tenor
Lee Gregory, baritone

Drew Minter, Artistic Director
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director