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 in its second season, 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"! Last season BMO presented 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. 

This year for BMO, Drew Minter stages an antic version of  Così fan tutte, Mozart's popular sex farce, in his own updated translation.  Minter sets the opera in a Connecticut country club where two idealistic young member couples war with each other and with the cynical middle aged staff members.  Who will fall for whom? Artistic Director, Drew Minter, again joins Music Director, Susan Davenny Wyner. More details.

Così fan Tutte will take place August 5, 7, and 9 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

Sara Heaton, soprano
Vira Slywotzky, soprano
Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
Darren Anderson, tenor
David McFerrin, baritone
Eric Downs, bass baritone

Drew Minter, Artistic Director
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director