#BMOP’s 2026 performances are ideal gifts for #newmusic lovers.
Mono e Mono e (Mono) / 21 Feb / 8 PM ET
The peak of winter brings a trio of monodramas to fire the spirit
The Last Savage / 13 Mar / 8 PM ET
BMOP collabs with @Odysseyopera on its production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage
Premiere3 / Apr 19 / 3 PM ET
BMOP programs an invigorating evening of world premiere orchestral works to usher in spring
Details & tickets / https://bmop.org/current-season/
This Friday, December 5, is #BandcampFriday! Plan to gift and share the latest #BMOPsound releases — like Dominick Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe and the inaugural #BMOPsoundSingles drop, David Felder: Die Dämmerungen — all while Bandcamp gives its revenue share to support #BMOP / https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com
This Saturday, February 15, our #collab with our friends at @Odysseyopera comes to fruition when Odyssey Opera presents Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
This work, with its hyperrhythmic orchestration, will be a memorable evening of music in Boston — a performance premiere for any #newmusic lover’s must-see list.
Feb 15 / 7:30 PM ET / from $35
Save 15% with promo code GONAKED15 / https://bmop.ticketleap.com/lysistrata/dates/Feb-15-2025_at_0730PM
Composer-librettist, Mark Adamo tells – in his 2005 opera, Lysistrata, or the Nude Goddess – not a story: a situation. “It’s a delicious premise. It is not a plot.” In this radical re-invention, an already scandalous drama of war and love blossoms into 21st Century relevance and deepens into an exploration of the human condition. “I love Lysistrata's strut and wit and nerve, its utopian yearnings, its magical locale — an Acropolis where, by dream-logic, a handful of couples can reconcile the love of the battlefield with the battlefield of love” (Adamo). Aristophanes’s Lysistrata is a comedy about the women of Athens and Sparta who, disgusted by a pointless war, barricade themselves in the Athenian treasury and swear a sanction on sex until their men make peace. Adamo, in a creative process of poetic reduction and a celebration of the original play’s subtle socio-ethical ambiguities, invents a romance between Lysistrata and the Athenian leader Nico. Adamo “wanted to scour this opera clean of sexual cliché — I believe that vice and virtue, surrender and assault, beckon as seductively to women as to men, and ‘who's on top?’ isn't necessarily the same question as ‘who's in control?’ As with sex, so with war: I could no more recite a familiar rhetoric of the evils of war than I could blithely exult in bloodshed.” As the drama escalates, so the music un- and re-folds, compiling implications of emotion, identity, and the human condition; “no sooner is a theme sung by one character, given one meaning, than it is assumed by someone else and inflected with quite another… The libretto suggests, ‘Each of you will tell the truth; neither will agree.’ The score aims to make that suggestion an audible process.” Adapted from Mark Adamo’s website: https://www.markadamo.com/compositions/lysistrata. Presented in concert by Odyssey Opera in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This performance runs approximately 130 mins.
Hey — it’s Bandcamp Friday! Stream, gift, and share the latest #BMOPsound releases — and classic #BMOPdrops from our back catalogue — all while Bandcamp gives its revenue share to support #BMOP / https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com
Read more at bmop.org In 2008, BMOP/sound was launched, not only to provide a platform for BMOP’s extensive archive of music, but also to provide universal access to both classics of the 20th century and the music of today’s most innovative composers. Today, it is considered the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music recordings.
#BMOP’s preparing to play for you this Friday, April 5, at Boston’s Huntington Theatre. Join #BMOPmusic for some remarkable orchestral writing by Dominick Argento in The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, a #collab with our friends @Odysseyopera.
Tix from $35. Save 15% with promo code POE15OFF / https://bit.ly/OOPoeTix
This Friday, April 5, at 7:30 PM #BMOP joins @Odysseyopera at Boston’s Huntington Theatre to present Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. Tickets for this one night only event are limited. Save 15% with code Poe15off / https://bit.ly/OOPoeTix
The Mar-Apr 2024 issue of American Record Guide reviews the GRAMMY®-nommed Pentatone release, Corigliano: The Lord of Cries, “…with an organic construction that feels artless, Corigliano has created three virtuosic roles that are performed to perfection on this recording… The Britten-esque orchestral interludes & choral numbers are compelling (the excellent Boston Modern Orchestra Project and @Odysseyopera Chorus under the direction of Gil Rose).”
Five years ago, #BMOP presented Charles Wuorinen’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s children’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, at Jordan Hall. The world premiere recording was released the next year on #BMOPsound. With an all-star cast, James Fenton’s cleverly adapted libretto, and Wuorinen’s intricate score, this work is a musical delight // https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com/album/charles-wuorinen-haroun-and-the-sea-of-stories
26 track album
“@Odysseyopera, in partnership w/ #BMOP, is set to present the New England premiere of Dominick Argento’s opera ‘The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe’…[conductor Gil] Rose said, ‘Poe lapsed into obscurity after its last performance in 1990. It’s astonishing this work has not been performed since… [Argento’s] music is of such high quality that it’s kind of a crime his praises aren’t sung even louder..’” https://operawire.com/the-voyage-of-edgar-allan-poe-to-be-performed-by-odyssey-opera/
Tix from $15 / https://odysseyopera.org/the-voyage-of-edgar-allan-poe/
“John Corigliano’s ‘The Lord of Cries’ (Pentatone) and Tobias Picker’s ‘Awakenings’ (#BMOPsound) are evidence of the cornucopia of new American operas and some of the best of the recent lot… both recordings are performed by the versatile and impressive @bmop, conducted by Gil Rose. The studio sessions followed concert performances with singers from @Odysseyopera.” / https://www.timesunion.com/music/article/2-new-operas-attest-music-s-embarrassment-riches-18548091.php
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