“Of Thee I Sing” – a fictional lampoon through a 1930’s presidential campaign by way of a beauty pageant, a marriage, and some corn muffins – and  its sequel, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” – a dystopian ultimatum plot hatched by a sore-loser president after failing re-election to either overturn the recent depression-era election or overturn the government – bring us an opportunity to revel in a timely critique of America's presidential tradition with a healthy dose of humor along the way.

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Gerswhin Double Bill

New England Conservatory

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, takes on yet another daring program featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Henri Lazarof, Harold Shapero, and Yu-Hui Chang.

Jeremiah

Ill and feverish, Boston-born writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe – his creativity and inspiration in the doldrums after his wife Virginia’s death two years prior – plans to sail to Baltimore on a “voyage of discovery.” But is a ship scheduled to depart?

Dominick Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe

Huntington Theatre

Time Change: 4 Bmop Commissions

BMOP continues its extended 25th Anniversary celebrations with a trip to Carnegie Hall. Featuring three works originally commissioned, premiered, and recorded by BMOP, "Play It Again" provides the capstone to the first 25 years of BMOP's mission.

Andrew Norman's Play, Lei Liang's A Thousand Mountain, A Million Streams, and Lisa Bielawa's In medias res all receive their New York premieres on the historic Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage in Carnegie Hall.

Play It Again at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Thousands lived to sleep…it’s not a fairy tale, but the incredible true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a young neurologist faced with treating victims of a mysterious sleeping-sickness epidemic of the early 20th century, a phenomenon of history nearly forgotten. Awakenings visits Sacks’s journey of perseverance and compassion that brought his ‘frozen’ patients back to being – but not to the world they left behind. With our current trials, this distinct retelling of the possibility of new life is even more resonant today.

Join BMOP in partnership with Odyssey Opera for the East Coast premiere of Awakenings, a moving tale of hope, loss, and transformation.

Tobias Picker's Awakenings

BMOP presents the East Coast premiere of composer John Corigliano and librettist Mark Adamo's striking new opera, The Lord of Cries. Weaving Bram Stoker's Dracula with Euripides's tragedy The Bacchae, Corigliano and Adamo lead the listener through a fever dream of ecstasy and ruin set in Victorian England. Featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as the supernatural Dionysus-cum-Dracula, Lord of Cries reimagines timeless themes for contemporary audiences.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Oct 12, 2024

Gerswhin Double Bill

May 25, 2024

Jeremiah

Boston Modern Orchestra Project